Thomas Merton (1915–1968)
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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
Run to the Mountain: The Story of a Vocation (The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume One 1939-1941) (1995) 413 copie
The Journals of Thomas Merton, Vol. 2, 1941-1952: Entering the Silence - Becoming a Monk & Writer (1996) 303 copie
A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True LifeThe Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 3: 1952-1960 (Merton,… (1996) 205 copie
The hidden ground of love : the letters of Thomas Merton on religious experience and social concerns (1985) 176 copie
The Last of the Fathers: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and the Encyclical Letter 'Doctor Mellifluus' (1954) 174 copie
Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years (The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4: 1960-1963) (1996) 171 copie
Learning to Love: Exploring Solitude and Freedom (Merton, Thomas//Journal of Thomas Merton) (1997) 166 copie
The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey (Merton, Thomas//Journal of Thomas Merton) (1998) 156 copie
The School of Charity: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Renewal and Spiritual Direction (1990) 106 copie
Che sono queste ferite?: vita di una mistica cistercense: Santa Lutgarde di Aywieres (1948) 100 copie
Thomas Merton: A Life in Letters: The Essential Collection (Merton, Thomas//Journal of Thomas Merton) (2008) 86 copie
A course in Christian mysticism : thirteen sessions with the famous Trappist monk Thomas Merton (2017) 51 copie
Discovering the Hidden Ground of Love (Bridges to Contemplative Living With Thomas Merton Series) (2007) 30 copie
An Introduction to Christian Mysticism: Initiation Into the Monastic Tradition, 3 (Monastic Wisdom series) (Bk. 3) (2008) 24 copie
The Rule of Saint Benedict: Initiation Into the Monastic Tradition 4 (Monastic Wisdom) (2009) 22 copie
The Life of the Vows: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition (Volume 30) (Monastic Wisdom Series) (2012) 22 copie
Pre-Benedictine Monasticism: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 2 (Monastic Wisdom) (2007) 22 copie
Merton & Judaism: Holiness in Words: Recognition, Repentance, and Renewal (The Fons Vitae Thomas Merton series) (2003) 18 copie
Monastic Observances: Initiation Into the Monastic Tradition 5 (Monastic Wisdom - Cistercian Publications) (1976) 15 copie
In the Valley of Wormwood: Cistercian Blessed and Saints of the Golden Age (Cistercian Studies) (2013) 12 copie
Charter, Customs, and Constitutions of the Cistercians: Initiation Into the Monastic Tradition 7 (Monastic Wisdom… (2015) 9 copie
The Spirit of simplicity : characteristic of the Cistercian Order : an official report, demanded and approved by the… (1948) 8 copie
Letters from Tom: Thomas Merton Writes about Nuclear Weapons, Black/White Encounters, Authority in the Church, and… (1983) 8 copie
Merton & the Tao: Dialogues with John Wu and the Ancient Sages (The Fons Vitae Thomas Merton series) (2013) 6 copie
Szukanie Boga 5 copie
Paz en tiempos de oscuridad : el testamento profético de Merton sobre la guerra y la paz (2006) 4 copie
Medieval Cistercian History: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 9 (Monastic Wisdom Series) (2019) 3 copie
Overpeinzingen van een christen 3 copie
Vida i santedat 3 copie
Oplettende toeschouwer 3 copie
A Oração Contemplativa 3 copie
The Cistercian Fathers and their monastic theology : initiation into the monastic tradition 8 (2016) 3 copie
Merton 2 copie
Zen, tao et nirvâna : esprit et contemplation en extrême-orient. préface par marco pallis.… (2015) 2 copie
Life and Celebration 1 copia
Words of Peace 1 copia
La Montée vers la Lumière 1 copia
O Homem Novo 1 copia
Pierwotny ideał karmelu 1 copia
Life and Community 1 copia
The Camaldolese Way 1 copia
eremitas do saccidananda 1 copia
The Genesee Diary 1 copia
Fjellet med de syv trinn 1 copia
Na Liberdade da Solidão 1 copia
a igreja e o mundo sem deus 1 copia
Le Nuit Privée d'Étoiles 1 copia
Cistercian contemplatives / — Autore — 1 copia
Vida Contemplativa en la Trapa 1 copia
New secrets of contemplation 1 copia
Other Side of the Mountain 1 copia
Pensamientos en soledad 1 copia
Collected Poems of Thomas Merton 1 copia
Thomas Merton Reader, A 1 copia
Sacred Silence - Festival of Faiths, Pathway to Compassion (A Series on Compassion - May 14-19, 2013 - Louisville,… (2013) 1 copia
Sementes de destruição 1 copia
In memory of Thomas Merton 1 copia
Tiempos de celebración 1 copia
Asiatisches Tagebuch 1 copia
Life and Work 1 copia
Our Father: Perfect Prayer CD 1 copia
Life and Truth 1 copia
CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE 1 copia
Does God Hear Our Prayer? 1 copia
Cassian: Trials and Belief 1 copia
Love 1 copia
La preghiera dei salmi 1 copia
Il Papa di Maria Vergine 1 copia
Diarios / Journals: 1960-1968. La Vida Intima De Un Gran Maestro Espiritual / the Intimate Life of a Great Spiritual… (2001) 1 copia
Luč nevidne resnice 1 copia
Il monaco 1 copia
The Desert fathers 1 copia
Natural Contemplation 1 copia
Marta,Maria e Lazaro 1 copia
Wie der Mond stirbt. Das letzte Tagebuch des Thomas Merton ( Asian Journal): Sonderausgabe. (1985) 1 copia
Selected Works of Thomas Merton 1 copia
Life and Prophecy 1 copia
Hidden Ground of Love; The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns 1 copia
Zen, wijsheid en leegheid 1 copia
Cargo theology 1 copia
La oración en la vida religiosa 1 copia
Alone With God 1 copia
Cuestiones discutidas 1 copia
Essential Writing 1 copia
LA EXPERIENCIA INTERNA 1 copia
Life and Contemplation 1 copia
Life and God’s Love 1 copia
Thomas Merton y Ernesto Cardenal / Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal: Correspondencia, 1959-1968 / Correspondence,… (2003) 1 copia
Duh 1 copia
Cablogrammi e profezie 1 copia
Opere correlate
Gandhi on Non-Violence: A Selection From the Writings of Mahatma Gandi (1964) — A cura di, alcune edizioni — 339 copie
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Collaboratore — 86 copie
Merton & Buddhism: (The Fons Vitae Thomas Merton series) (2007) — Fotografo, alcune edizioni — 32 copie
Merton & Hesychasm: The Prayer of the Heart & the Eastern Church (The Fons Vitae Thomas Merton series) (2003) — Collaboratore — 29 copie
Clement of Alexandria Selections from the Protreptikos (1962) — Essay, alcune edizioni; Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 12 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Merton, Thomas
- Altri nomi
- Fr. Louis
MERTON, Thomas
梅頓 - Data di nascita
- 1915-01-31
- Data di morte
- 1968-12-10
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Gethsemani Abbey, Bardstown, Kentucky, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- France (birth)
USA - Luogo di nascita
- Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
- Luogo di morte
- Mueang Samut Prakan, Thailand
- Causa della morte
- electrocution
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
Saint-Antonin, Midi-Pyrénées, France
Montauban, Midi-Pyrénées, France
Ealing, Greater London, England, UK
Ripley, Surrey, England, UK
Olean, New York, USA (mostra tutto 8)
Bardstown, Kentucky, USA
Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, Kentucky, USA - Istruzione
- Lycée Ingres, Montauban
Ripley Court School, Ripley
University of Cambridge (Clare College)
Columbia University (BA|1938|MA|1939) - Attività lavorative
- monk (Trappist)
novelist
poet
college teacher - Organizzazioni
- Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Ordained, 1949)
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1940s (1)
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- ISBN
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