The Merton Annual Volume 30 – From Graduate School to Gethsemani: A Pilgrimage of Prophecy and Prayer

Editors: Deborah Pope Kehoe, Joseph Quinn Raab

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Each of the essays in this volume reference the pivotal period in Merton’s early life, from Graduate School to Gethsemani, and/or the topics of pilgrimage, prophecy and prayer. “As a graduate student at Columbia writing on Blake he was also honing his own poetic skill, dabbling in philosophy, mysticism, Zen Buddhism and a variety of other topics that would continue to shape his entire life. After completing his master’s degree and before entering the monastery, Merton spent time in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains teaching at Saint Bonaventure College; he sojourned in Cuba and volunteered in Harlem. That time, from graduate school to Gethsemani, proved to be a microcosm reflecting all of his perpetual desires and concerns. His instruction of undergraduate Bonnies would later be mirrored by his novitiate conferences. His foray with Friendship House in Harlem foreshadows the fiery prophet of the nineteen sixties railing against racism and a variety of structural injustices. Still in those feverish final months leading up to his becoming a Trappist, aching for eventual ordination, he was simultaneously considering an array of alternative options should monastic and priestly life prove out of reach. Fundamentally, it was a time of awakening to and absorbing the awesome mystery of God, the consolation of Divine Mercy.” Click here to read the full introduction by Joseph Quinn Rabb.

The Merton Annual publishes articles about Thomas Merton and about related matters of major concern to his life and work. Its purpose is to enhance Merton’s reputation as a writer and monk, to continue to develop his message for our times, and to provide a regular outlet for substantial Merton-related scholarship. The Merton Annual includes as regular features, reviews, review-essays, a bibliographic survey, interviews, and first appearances of unpublished or obscurely published Merton materials, photographs and art. Essays about related literary and spiritual matters are also considered.

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Categories: General Thomas Merton Books, The Merton Annual, Thomas Merton Series

ISBN: 9781891785764
Year: 2017
Pages: 288

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The Merton Annual Volume 30 – From Graduate School to Gethsemani: A Pilgrimage of Prophecy and Prayer

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The Merton Annual Volume 30 – From Graduate School to Gethsemani: A Pilgrimage of Prophecy and Prayer

CONTENTS

Raab, Joseph Quinn. “Introduction: From Graduate School to Gethsemani – A Pilgrimage of Prophecy and Prayer.” 7-16.

Merton, Thomas. “Letters to Pat” edited with an Introduction by Paul M. Pearson. 17-28.

Calati, Benedetto. “Thomas Merton: Gift of God for the Monks of Our Time” translated and annotated with an Introduction by Donald Grayston. 29-40.

Coady, Mary Frances. “‘A Fire That Burns’: Thomas Merton, Catherine de Hueck Doherty and the Story of The Secular Journal.” 41-53.

Scruggs, Ryan L. “The ‘One Merciful Event’: Thomas Merton on Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo.” 54-77.

Horan, Daniel P, OFM. “Kyrie Eleison: Mercy at the Heart of Thomas Merton’s Theology of Revelation.” 78-87.

Golemboski, David. “A Mysterious, Unaccountable Mixture of Good and Evil: Thomas Merton on Cooperation and Complicity.” 88-101.

Greeley, June-Ann. “The Mercy of God: Mary as a Mercy for Humanity and as the Mediatrix of Salvation.” 102-116.

Serrán-Pagán y Fuentes, Cristóbal. “Divine Mercy in Thomas Merton and St. John of the Cross: Encountering the Dark Nights in the Human Soul.” 117-130.

Oyer, Gordon. “Thomas Merton and the ‘Pessimism’ of Jacques Ellul.” 131-144.

Plekon, Michael. “God’s Mercy and Foolish Love: Thomas Merton and Paul Evdokimov.” 145-155.

Copeland, M. Shawn. “The Watchmen and the Witnesses: Thomas Merton, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Exercise of the Prophetic.” 156-170.

Fici, Christopher. “‘Larger, Freer, and More Loving’: Confronting and Healing the Infection of Whiteness with Thomas Merton and James Baldwin.” 171-183.

Whalen, Robert Weldon. “Thomas Merton and John Coltrane: Jazz and the Mercy beyond Being.” 184-203.

Kehoe, Deborah Pope. “Five Ways of Looking at a Monk: A Bibliographic Review of 2016.” 204-220.

Allard, John, OP. Rev. of The Cistercian Fathers and Their Monastic Theology: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 8 by Thomas Merton, edited by Patrick F. O’Connell. 221-228.

O’Connell, Patrick F. Rev. of Thomas Merton on Monastic Spirituality; Thomas Merton on Pilgrimage to the Holy Land; Thomas Merton on Desert Spirituality (CDs). 228-235.

Surat, Maria. Rev. of The Root of War Is Fear: Thomas Merton’s Advice to Peacemakers by Jim Forest. 235-240.

Greeley, June-Ann. Rev. of Thomas Merton and the Celts: A New World Opening Up by Monica Weis, SSJ. 240-245.

O’Connell, Patrick F. Rev. of Thomas Merton’s Poetics of Self-Dissolution by Sonia Petisco. 246-253.

Scruggs, Ryan L. Rev. of Merton and the Protestant Tradition by William Oliver Paulsell. 253-265.

Matthews, Gray. Rev. of A Way to God: Thomas Merton’s Creation Spirituality Journey by Matthew Fox. 265-267.

Gibson, Lisette N. Rev. of Thomas Merton and the Counterculture: A Golden String by Ron Dart. 267-272.

Gardner, Fiona. Rev. of The Rising Importance of Thomas Merton’s Spiritual Legacy by Kenneth Bragan. 272-274.

Quenon, Paul, OCSO. Rev. of Merton’s Abbot: The Life and Times of Dom James Fox by F. Dean Lucas. 274-278.

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.

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