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Thomas Merton (1915–1968)

Autore di La montagna dalle sette balze

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Born in France, Thomas Merton was the son of an American artist and poet and her New Zealander husband, a painter. Merton lost both parents before he had finished high school, and his younger brother was killed in World War II. Something of the ephemeral character of human endeavor marked all his mostra altro works, deepening the pathos of his writings and drawing him close to Eastern, especially Buddhist, forms of monasticism. After an initial education in the United States, France, and England, he completed his undergraduate degree at Columbia University. His parents, nominally friends, had given him little religious guidance, and in 1938, he converted to Roman Catholicism. The following year he received an M.A. from Columbia University and in 1941, he entered Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky, where he remained until a short time before his death. His working life was spent as a Trappist monk. At Gethsemani, he wrote his famous autobiography, "The Seven Storey Mountain" (1948); there he labored and prayed through the days and years of a constant regimen that began with daily prayer at 2:00 a.m. As his contemplative life developed, he still maintained contact with the outside world, his many books and articles increasing steadily as the years went by. Reading them, it is hard to think of him as only a "guilty bystander," to use the title of one of his many collections of essays. He was vehement in his opposition to the Vietnam War, to the nuclear arms race, to racial oppression. Having received permission to leave his monastery, he went on a journey to confer with mystics of the Hindu and Buddhist traditions. He was accidentally electrocuted in a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, on December 10, 1968. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Thomas Merton in Pictures From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center. Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.

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Opere di Thomas Merton

La montagna dalle sette balze (1948) 4,677 copie
New Seeds of Contemplation (1961) 2,237 copie
Nessun uomo e un'isola (1955) 2,200 copie
Contemplative Prayer (1969) 1,432 copie
Pensieri nella solitudine (1958) 1,188 copie
La via semplice di Chuang Tzu (1969) — Autore — 1,108 copie
The Wisdom of the Desert (New Directions) (1960) — Autore — 1,074 copie
Lo zen e gli uccelli rapaci (1968) 751 copie
Il segno di Giona (1953) 694 copie
Vita e santita (1963) 635 copie
Mystics and Zen Masters (1967) 556 copie
The Ascent to Truth (1951) 501 copie
Semi di contemplazione (1949) 453 copie
ˆIl ‰pane nel deserto (1953) 423 copie
Le acque di Siloe (1949) 422 copie
Praying the Psalms (1956) 399 copie
The New Man (1961) — Autore — 395 copie
A Book of Hours (2007) 378 copie
Love and Living (1979) 351 copie
Vita nel silenzio (1957) 321 copie
Opening the Bible (1970) — Autore — 308 copie
Disputed Questions (1960) 302 copie
Il pane vivo (1956) 294 copie
Raids on the Unspeakable (1966) 250 copie
The Monastic Journey (1977) 237 copie
Diario secolare (1885) 212 copie
Fede, resistenza, protesta (1656) 191 copie
Seasons of celebration (1965) 166 copie
Che cos'e la contemplazione (1978) 144 copie
Seeds (2002) 136 copie
Semi di distruzione (1964) 131 copie
Il coraggio della verità (1993) 119 copie
The Nonviolent Alternative (1980) 116 copie
He Is Risen (1657) 105 copie
A vow of conversation : journals, 1964-1965 (1988) — Autore — 98 copie
Geography of Lograire (1969) 52 copie
Thomas Merton on peace (1971) 46 copie
A Catch of Anti-Letters (1978) 38 copie
Day of a stranger (1981) 33 copie
Silence in Heaven: A Book of the Monastic Life (1956) — Autore — 23 copie
Cold War Letters (2006) 21 copie
A Man in the Divided Sea (1946) 20 copie
The Strange Islands (1957) 19 copie
Cistercian life (1974) 19 copie
REDEEMING THE TIME (1965) 18 copie
Figures for an Apocalypse (1947) 17 copie
Silence, Joy (2018) 15 copie
Meditations on Liturgy (1976) 15 copie
Thomas Merton on Zen (1976) 13 copie
La Paix monastique (1957) 12 copie
Vägen till kontemplation (1980) 12 copie
The behavior of Titans (1961) 10 copie
Introductions East & West (1981) 10 copie
Szukanie Boga 5 copie
Kallad till tystnad (2005) 5 copie
Come to the Mountain (1964) 4 copie
Thomas Merton on Prayer (1989) 4 copie
Diarios. 1939-1968 (2014) 4 copie
Listy (1991) 3 copie
Thirty poems (1944) 3 copie
The Zen revival (1967) 3 copie
Orar Los Salmos (2005) 2 copie
Nativity kerygma (1958) 2 copie
Leggere la Bibbia (2002) 2 copie
Wybór wierszy (1986) 2 copie
A Merton Reader (1974) 2 copie
Humanismo cristiano (2001) 2 copie
Un vivere alternativo (1995) 2 copie
The Thomas Merton Studies Center (Volume One) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni2 copie
Merton 2 copie
Created for Love (1993) 1 copia
Paz na era pós-cristã (2007) 1 copia
O Homem Novo 1 copia
La rivoluzione nera (2016) 1 copia
Cistercian contemplatives / — Autore — 1 copia
El Camino monástico (1987) 1 copia
Zeiten der Stille. (1999) 1 copia
Life and Work 1 copia
Fenelon Letters (1964) 1 copia
Love 1 copia
Nonviolent Alternative (1980) 1 copia
Il monaco 1 copia
Paz Personal Paz Social (1999) 1 copia
Inner and Outer Poverty (1994) 1 copia
Silence (1994) 1 copia
Sedmistupňová hora (2002) 1 copia
Thomas Merton on Love (2007) 1 copia
Pasternak (2019) 1 copia
Thomas Merton on Poetry (2017) 1 copia
Thomas Merton on Sufism (2014) 1 copia
Duh 1 copia
KONTEMPLATIV B (1987) 1 copia
Hetkien kirja (2014) 1 copia

Opere correlate

La città di Dio (0426) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni6,243 copie
Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas (2004) — Collaboratore — 764 copie
Gandhi on Non-Violence: A Selection From the Writings of Mahatma Gandi (1964) — A cura di, alcune edizioni339 copie
The Portable Sixties Reader (2002) — Collaboratore — 329 copie
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Collaboratore — 164 copie
Belief: Readings on the Reason for Faith (2010) — Collaboratore — 143 copie
Saints for Now (1952) — Collaboratore — 108 copie
Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire (1967) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni79 copie
Russian Mystics (1976) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni71 copie
Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (1684) — Collaboratore — 69 copie
The Prison Meditations of Father Delp (1963) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni62 copie
A Hidden Wholeness/The Visual World of Thomas Merton (1977) — Fotografo — 55 copie
Counsels of Light and Love (1953) — Introduzione — 52 copie
Angelic Mistakes: The Art of Thomas Merton (2006) — Illustratore — 43 copie
Merton & Buddhism: (The Fons Vitae Thomas Merton series) (2007) — Fotografo, alcune edizioni32 copie
Elsewhere (Poets in the World) (2014) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni24 copie
No more strangers (1965) — Introduzione — 22 copie
The Analog Sea Review: Number Two (2019) — Collaboratore — 18 copie
Son of Man: Great Writing About Jesus Christ (2002) — Collaboratore — 17 copie
Clement of Alexandria Selections from the Protreptikos (1962) — Essay, alcune edizioni; Traduttore, alcune edizioni12 copie
New World Writing: First Mentor Selection (1952) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
Non-violence and the Christian conscience (1966) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni11 copie
Merton [1984 film] (2004) — Featured — 10 copie
The Analog Sea Review: Number One (2018) — Collaboratore — 9 copie
The Jaguar and the Moon (1971) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni7 copie
Stroker anthology, 1974-1994 (1994) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
Mansions of the Spirit (1967) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni7 copie
Triquarterly 19 (Fall 1970) For Edward Dahlberg (1970) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Palabra de Amor: La búsqueda de la sanación integral (2002) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
New Directions in Prose and Poetry 33 (2010) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

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Il volume presenta l'edizione critica dell'ultimo manoscritto lasciato da Merton, riveduto in parte dall'autore ma mai pubblicato. Solo dopo la sua morte avvenuta nel novembre del 1967, viene alla luce questo volume riportando tutte le correzioni e la parti aggiuntive indicate dall'autore. Thomas Merton, il prolifico monaco la cui autobiografia La Montagna dalle Sette Balze introdusse la contemplazione cristiana nel 20° secolo, spiega cosa si intende per contemplazione cristiana, acquisita o infusa, proponendo per la prima volta l'insegnamento dei maestri dello Zen buddista e i metodi di meditazioni orientali.… (altro)
 
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ISBN
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