The Merton Annual Volume 26 – Sophianic Love: Transforming the Heart by Living Together with Wisdom

CONTENTS

• • • • Raab, Joseph Quinn. “Introduction: Sophia’s Romancing.” 7-11.

      • Fox, Peggy L. “James Laughlin and Thomas Merton: ‘Louie, I Think This Is the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship’.” 12-23.

      • “An Interview with James Laughlin about Thomas Merton,” conducted by Paul Wilkes, transcribed and edited by Paul M. Pearson. 24-42.

      • MacNiven, Ian S. “More Than Scribe: James Laughlin, Thomas Merton and The Asian Journal.” 43-53.

      • Pramuk, Christopher. “‘She Cannot Be a Prisoner’: The Lure of Wisdom as Bearer of Hope.” 54-73.

      • Kaplan, Edward K. “Personal Bridges, Spiritual Communities: The Correspondence of Thomas Merton and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi.” 74-83.

      • Oyer, Gordon. “Louis Massignon and the Seeds of Thomas Merton’s ‘Monastic Protest’.” 84-96.

      • Plekon, Michael. “‘The Immense Mercy of God Was upon Me’: Thomas Merton’s Reading of the Russian Émigré Thinkers.” 97-106.

      • O’Connell, Patrick F. “‘The First Cistercian and the Greatest Trappist’: Thomas Merton’s Poems on John the Baptist.” 107-139.

      • Weis, Monica, SSJ. “‘With My Hair Almost on End’: Le Point Vierge and the Dawn Birds.” 140-146.

      • Whalen, Robert Weldon. “Thomas Merton and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: ‘The Dawning of Divine Light’.” 147-156.

      • Gardner, Fiona. “Thomas Merton and the Concept of the Child-Mind: ‘The Only One Worth Having’.” 157-167.

      • Meade. Mark C. “From Downtown Louisville to Buenos Aires: Victoria Ocampo as Thomas Merton’s Overlooked Bridge
        to Latin America and the World.” 168-180.

      • Carr, Raymond. “Merton and Barth in Dialogue on Faith and Understanding: A Hermeneutics of Freedom and Ambiguity.” 181-194.

      • Belcastro, David Joseph. “2012 Bibliographic Review Essay: Thomas Merton, Escape Artist.” 195-210.

      • Thurston, Bonnie Bowman. Rev. of The Life of the Vows: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 6 by Thomas Merton edited by Patrick F. O’Connell. 211-213.

      • Meade, Mark C. Rev. of On Christian Contemplation by Thomas Merton edited by Paul M. Pearson and On Eastern Meditation by Thomas Merton edited by Bonnie Thurston. 213-216.

      • Montaldo, Jonathan. Rev. of Precious Thoughts: Daily Readings from the Correspondence of Thomas Merton edited by Fiona Gardner. 216-220.

      • O’Connell, Patrick F. Rev. of Thomas Merton on Contemplation; Finding True Meaning and Beauty; Thomas Merton’s Great Sermons; Vatican II: The Sacred Liturgy and the Religious Life; Thomas Merton on Sufism; Ways of Prayer: A Desert Father’s Wisdom; Thomas Merton on the 12 Degrees of Humility; Solitude and Togetherness; The Prophet’s
        Freedom (CDs). 220-232.

      • Kehoe, Deborah. Rev. of Thomas Merton and Thérèse Lentfoehr: The Story of a Friendship by Robert Nugent, SDS. 233-236.

      • Bochen, Christine M. Rev. of Thomas Merton—The Exquisite Risk of Love: The Chronicle of a Monastic Romance by Robert G. Waldron. 236-241.

      • Morgan, Patrick Thomas. Rev. of Returning to Reality: Thomas Merton’s Wisdom for a Technological World by Phillip M. Thompson. 241-246.

      • Weber, Richard, OCSO. Rev. of Thomas Merton: Monk on the Edge edited by Ross Labrie and Angus Stuart. 246-249.

      • Betz, Margaret B. Rev. of It Draws Me: The Art of Contemplation by Mary M. McDonald. 249-251.

      • Paguio, Erlinda G. Rev. of A Miracle of Grace: An Autobiography by E. Glenn Hinson. 251-255.

      • Kehoe, Deborah. Rev. of Denise Levertov: A Poet’s Life by Dana Greene. 255-259.

      • Grayston, Donald. Rev. of I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen by Sylvie Simmons The Holy or the Broken by Alan Light. 259-264.

    Grateful acknowledgement is expressed to the Merton Legacy Trust and the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University for permission to reproduce the calligraphy of Thomas Merton for the cover artwork.