Libros de Thomas Merton

The Other Side Of The Mountain: The End Of The Journey

• With the election of a new Abbot at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Merton enters a period of..

Life Of The Vows

• As novice master of the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky, Thomas Merton presented weekly conferences to familiarize his charges with the meaning and purpose of the vows they aspired to undertake. In this setting, he offered a thoroug...

Thomas Merton - Spiritual Direction And Meditation

• This early work by Anglo-American Catholic writer Thomas Merton is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains a wealth of information on spiritual direction and how to learn the art of meditation. This fascinating work is thoroughly...

The Way Of Chuang Tzu

• 159 páginas
• Working from existing translations, Thomas Merton composed a series of his own versions of the classic sayings of Chuang Tzu, the most spiritual of Chinese philosophers. Chuang Tzu, who wrote in the fourth and third centuries B.C, is the chief authentic...

A Book Of Hours

• For the first time, Thomas Merton's writings have been arranged into A Book of Hours, a resource..

New Seeds Of Contemplation

• 297 páginas
• New Seeds of Contemplation is one of Thomas Merton's most widely read and best-loved books. Christians and non-Christians alike have joined in praising it as a notable successor in the meditative tradition of St. John of the Cross, The Cloud of Unknowing,...

Run To The Mountain

• The first of seven uncensored journals by Thomas Merton, a highly regarded Trappist Monk and peace activist, covers his pre-monastic years, including his graduate study work and early ambitions

Inner Experience, The

• Thomas Merton's groundbreaking last major work--a provocative and pivotal look into..

The Sign Of Jonas

The Ascent To Truth

• 360 páginas
• Merton defines Christian mysticism, especially as expressed by the Spanish Carmelite St. John of the Cross, and he offers the contemplative experience as an answer to the irreligion and barbarism of our times. “For those..curious about...

No Man Is An Island

• In No Man Is an Island, religious scholar and theologian Thomas Merton offers "a stimulating..

Thoughts On The East

• 98 páginas
• The Eastern religious traditions, especially the varieties of Buddhism, were the last great passion in Thomas Merton's life. His participation in a monastic conference in Asia led to his premature, accidental death. He discoursed on equal terms with...

Thomas Mertons Paradise Journey

• A book which traces the development of the thoughts and writings of the twentieth century..

Contemplation In A World Of Action

• The spiritual and psychological insights of these essays were nurtured in a monastic milieu, but their issues are universally human. Thomas Merton lays a foundation for personal growth and transformation through fidelity to "our own truth and inner...

Thomas Merton And James Laughton

• 434 páginas
• Thomas Merton may have seemed an unlikely candidate for a best-selling author. Cloistered in a remote Kentucky monastery, Merton struggled as a young man to reconcile the contemplative life he sought as a monk and his very public passion for writing. Publ...

Bread In The Wilderness

• 160 páginas
• The world-renowned religious writer explores the meaning of the Psalms in a facsimile edition of the original, attractively designed, large-format volume first published in 1953, featuring a wealth of photographs of a famous medieval crucifix. Reissue....

The Nonviolent Alternative

• The writings in this work were precipitated by a variety of events during the last decades of..

Last Of The Fathers

Thomas Merton On Saint Bernard

• The best-known Cistercian of the twentieth century reflects on the teaching and life of the most renowned Cistercian of the twelfth century. Three essays written in the 1950s explore the relation of contemplation and action in the monastic vocation and...

The Collected Poems Of Thomas Merton

• 1046 páginas
• In 1944, New Directions brought out Thomas Merton's first book of verse. By the time of his tragic, untimely death in 1968, Father Louis (as he was known at the Trappist monastery where he lived for twenty-seven years) had published upwards of fifty...