Christopher Pramuk

A Monastic Introduction to Sacred Scripture

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“The history of monastic biblical interpretation ‘must not be studied from the outside,’ insists Thomas Merton, but demands ‘a deepened and experiential study, from within.’ This critical volume demonstrates Merton’s encounter with the Bible ‘from within’ prior to Vatican II, while underscoring just how transformed his reading of the Scriptures would be by his engagement with Jewish and Protestant voices during the 1960s. Editor Patrick O’Connell tracks that dramatic evolution to the great benefit of readers.”

Finding Peace Here and Now

Christian Living

“Eric Clayton is among the brightest and most trustworthy lights of a new generation of lay interpreters of Ignatian spirituality. Finding Peace Here and Now pulses with Clayton’s keen gift for storytelling, bridging experiential and theological insight by way of imagination, gently inviting us to probe our own stories for gestures, big and small, of God’s unceasing delight in us. To embrace the ‘downward mobility of Christ’ is to learn how to savor, in light and shadow, the sacred beauty of our own humanity.”

Opening New Horizons

World Religions

“Rarely has the ‘lion’s roar’ of interfaith dialogue been so keenly grasped as in this beautifully realized study. Joseph Raab approaches the Merton-Suzuki dialogue with the sensitivity of a poet and sophistication of a practiced theologian. Charting the idol-shattering friendship between Merton and Suzuki, Opening New Horizons unfolds like a Zen koan that invites deepening encounter with the mystery of God. Like the dialogue itself, Raab lays down lucid ‘stepping stones’ for others to follow.”

Remembering the Forgotten Merton

History & Biography

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

The Gospel Beyond the Grave

Theology

“While white folks in the United States are well-practiced in the art of forgetting, Lewis Brogdon represents a memory community of the living and the dead that dares not forget our shared racial history. Neither, surely, does God forget. With courage and breathtaking scriptural insight, Brogdon presses traditional notions of the eschaton to their heart-rending limits. How will God reconcile the unresolved legacy of racism and white supremacy? Are we prepared to imagine a new heaven and new earth as capaciously as God? A truly groundbreaking study in Christian hope, taking no refuge in cheap grace. One of the finest works in constructive theology I’ve had the honor to read.”

The Only Mind Worth Having

Christian Living

“In this age dominated by utilitarian and technological reason, where the spiritual lives of children and adults are too often stunted by neglect and trauma, The Only Mind Worth Having is a beautiful summons to the way of greater freedom, creativity, spontaneity, and love. With sophistication, balance, and gentle insight, Gardner uncovers the spirit of the child who hides in each of us, the 'infant at the heart of Christianity.'”

Thomas Merton—Evil and Why We Suffer

Theology

“This is an intelligent study of Merton’s thinking on a question that exempts no thoughtful person of faith: how to reconcile the God of love and mercy with the hard fact of unjust and senseless human suffering. David Orberson deftly charts the influence of Zen on Merton’s life and theology in ways that are persuasive and often provocative, in the best sense, stirring new questions in the reader. A welcome contribution to a neglected aspect of Merton studies.”