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Thomas Merton
Author · 90 books
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was one of the most influential Catholic authors of the 20th century. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, in the American state of Kentucky, Merton was an acclaimed Catholic spiritual writer, poet, author and social activist. Merton wrote over 60 books, scores of essays and reviews, and is the ongoing subject of many biographies. Merton was also a proponent of inter-religious dialogue, engaging in spiritual dialogues with the Dalai Lama XIV, Thich Nhat Hanh, D. T. Suzuki and poet Robert Lax. His life and career were suddenly cut short at age 53, when he was electrocuted stepping out of his bath.

Series

Books

The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton book cover

The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton

1977

The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton book cover

The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton

1973

The Intimate Merton book cover

The Intimate Merton

1999

The Ascent to Truth book cover

The Ascent to Truth

1951

Seeds book cover

Seeds

2002

The Living Bread book cover

The Living Bread

1956

Thomas Merton book cover

Thomas Merton

Essential Writings

2000

The Other Side of the Mountain book cover

The Other Side of the Mountain

The End of the Journey

1998

At Home in the World book cover

At Home in the World

The Letters of Thomas Merton and Rosemary Radford Ruether

1995

Raids on the Unspeakable book cover

Raids on the Unspeakable

1966

Life and Holiness book cover

Life and Holiness

1962

Gods and Mortals book cover

Gods and Mortals

Modern Poems on Classical Myths

2001

Thomas Merton book cover

Thomas Merton

Spiritual Direction And Meditation

1960

Seasons of Celebration book cover

Seasons of Celebration

Meditations on the Cycle of Liturgical Feasts

1983

Silence, Joy book cover

Silence, Joy

2018

A Book of Hours book cover

A Book of Hours

2007

Lent and Easter Wisdom from Thomas Merton book cover

Lent and Easter Wisdom from Thomas Merton

Daily Scripture and Prayers, Together with Thomas Merton's Own Words

2007

What are these wounds? book cover

What are these wounds?

1950

Contemplative Prayer book cover

Contemplative Prayer

1969

Advent and Christmas with Thomas Merton book cover

Advent and Christmas with Thomas Merton

2002

Choosing to Love the World book cover

Choosing to Love the World

On Contemplation

2008

A Search for Solitude book cover

A Search for Solitude

Pursuing the Monk's True Life, The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 3: 1952-1960

1996

The Inner Experience book cover

The Inner Experience

Notes on Contemplation

1959

Echoing Silence book cover

Echoing Silence

Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing

2007

Praying the Psalms book cover

Praying the Psalms

1956

Woods, shore, desert book cover

Woods, shore, desert

1984

Love and Living book cover

Love and Living

1979

The Waters Of Siloe book cover

The Waters Of Siloe

1949

Mystics and Zen Masters book cover

Mystics and Zen Masters

1961

Passion For Peace book cover

Passion For Peace

The Social Essays

1995

Bread in the Wilderness book cover

Bread in the Wilderness

1953

Learning To Love book cover

Learning To Love

Exploring Solitude and Freedom

1997

The Springs of Contemplation book cover

The Springs of Contemplation

A Retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani

1992

Come into the Silence book cover

Come into the Silence

2021

The New Man book cover

The New Man

1961

Thomas Merton on Sufism book cover

Thomas Merton on Sufism

2017

In the Dark Before Dawn book cover

In the Dark Before Dawn

New Selected Poems

2005

Thoughts on the East book cover

Thoughts on the East

1995

The Sign of Jonas book cover

The Sign of Jonas

1953

The Courage for Truth book cover

The Courage for Truth

Letters to Writers

1993

Dialogues with Silence book cover

Dialogues with Silence

2001

Striving Towards Being book cover

Striving Towards Being

The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz

1996

From the Monastery to the World book cover

From the Monastery to the World

The Letters of Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal

2017

The Hidden Ground of Love book cover

The Hidden Ground of Love

The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns

1986

New Seeds of Contemplation book cover

New Seeds of Contemplation

1962

On Christian Contemplation book cover

On Christian Contemplation

2012

Thoughts in Solitude book cover

Thoughts in Solitude

1956

Turning Toward the World book cover

Turning Toward the World

The Pivotal Years; The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4: 1960-1963

1996

Seeds of Contemplation book cover

Seeds of Contemplation

2015

A Year with Thomas Merton book cover

A Year with Thomas Merton

Daily Meditations from His Journals

2004

The Seven Storey Mountain book cover

The Seven Storey Mountain

1948

The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton book cover

The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton

1977

The School of Charity book cover

The School of Charity

The Letters Of Thomas Merton On Religious Renewal & Spiritual Direction

1990

Ishi Means Man book cover

Ishi Means Man

Essays on Native Americans

1976

The Geography of Lograire book cover

The Geography of Lograire

1969

Thomas Merton book cover

Thomas Merton

Spiritual Master, The Essential Writings

1992

An Invitation to the Contemplative Life book cover

An Invitation to the Contemplative Life

2006

Disputed Questions book cover

Disputed Questions

1965

Dancing in the Water of Life book cover

Dancing in the Water of Life

1997

The Last of the Fathers book cover

The Last of the Fathers

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and the Encyclical Letter Doctor Mellifluus

1954

My Argument with the Gestapo book cover

My Argument with the Gestapo

1975

Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander book cover

Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

1966

The Wisdom of the Desert book cover

The Wisdom of the Desert

Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century

1960

The Monastic Journey book cover

The Monastic Journey

1977

Cold War Letters book cover

Cold War Letters

2006

Seeds of Destruction book cover

Seeds of Destruction

1961

What is Contemplation? book cover

What is Contemplation?

1981

When the Trees Say Nothing book cover

When the Trees Say Nothing

Writings on Nature

2003

Peace in the Post-Christian Era book cover

Peace in the Post-Christian Era

2004

Zen and the Birds of Appetite book cover

Zen and the Birds of Appetite

1968

The Silent Life book cover

The Silent Life

1957

A Thomas Merton Reader book cover

A Thomas Merton Reader

1974

Emblems of a Season of Fury book cover

Emblems of a Season of Fury

1961

Thomas Merton book cover

Thomas Merton

A Life in Letters: The Essential Collection

2008

Thomas Merton on Contemplation book cover

Thomas Merton on Contemplation

2012

No Man Is an Island book cover

No Man Is an Island

1955

Thomas Merton on Prayer book cover

Thomas Merton on Prayer

1989

Thomas Merton in Alaska book cover

Thomas Merton in Alaska

1989

Witness to Freedom book cover

Witness to Freedom

The Letters of Thomas Merton in Times of Crisis

1994

The Tears of the Blind Lions book cover

The Tears of the Blind Lions

1949

The Nonviolent Alternative book cover

The Nonviolent Alternative

1980

Selected Poems of Thomas Merton book cover

Selected Poems of Thomas Merton

1959

Thomas Merton book cover

Thomas Merton

1990

Bread and Wine book cover

Bread and Wine

Readings for Lent and Easter

2002

Entering the Silence book cover

Entering the Silence

Becoming a Monk and a Writer

1996

The Pocket Thomas Merton book cover

The Pocket Thomas Merton

2005

Faith and Violence book cover

Faith and Violence

Christian Teaching and Christian Practice

1968

Thomas Merton's Great Sermons book cover

Thomas Merton's Great Sermons

2017

Run to the Mountain book cover

Run to the Mountain

1995

Contemplation in a World of Action book cover

Contemplation in a World of Action

1965

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