Paul M. Pearson
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Paul M. Pearson wrote the foreword to Thomas Merton: Twentieth-Century Wisdom for Twenty-First-Century Living.
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A Monastic Introduction to Sacred Scripture
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“As a monk, Thomas Merton was totally immersed in sacred Scripture and, in this book, we encounter some of the earliest fruits of Merton’s own prayer, lectio, and study as he began teaching Scripture in the years immediately after his ordination. A Monastic Introduction to Sacred Scripture is a foretaste of the rich banquet that would flow from Merton’s pen in the ensuing years.”
Authenticity, Passion, and Advocacy
Children & Youth
“Writing from many years of hands-on experience in the classroom, along with his profound reading of Merton, Thomas Malewitz provides an excellent roadmap for Christian educators to incorporate, indeed immerse, their adolescent curricula in the timeless and prescient wisdom of Thomas Merton.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In Illusions of Freedom, Jeffrey Shaw presents his reader with a thorough and finely executed comparison of the intersections in the life and thought of Thomas Merton and Jacques Ellul on issues relating to technology and the human condition. Their insights and critique, though written decades ago, raise questions as applicable today as when they wrote them, perhaps even more. . . .”
World Religions
“A profound and knowledgeable exploration of Thomas Merton’s encounter with Zen Buddhism, beginning with his relationship with D. T. Suzuki, through Merton’s writings on Zen, to his final journey to the East. In Joseph Raab the reader has a dependable guide, one who has deeply mined Merton’s unique position as an exemplary initiator of monastic interfaith dialogue and who skillfully guides the reader through its lessons for today.”
History & Biography
“In our troubled and troubling time Tom Del Prete’s autobiographical journey as recorded in Providential seems to speak of a different age. Yet, as with his prominent mentor, Thomas Merton, this book carries a message of an alternative way. The prioritizing of family, friendship, and fellowship demonstrated by the author is the pathway to a deeper sense of a life well lived than is often the case with many of the superficial and fragmentizing solutions so readily presented to us as the norm. Del Prete’s story reminds us of those deeper things and is a beacon of hope.”
Pursuing the Spiritual Roots of Protest
History & Biography
“A meticulously researched account of a historical event whose ramifications are as apposite today as when they were first discussed, perhaps more so. The prophetic voices and the witness of the retreat participants are brought to life in Oyer's engaging narrative, echoing from the Gethsemani woods down through the ages, still struggling to be heard against the techno-babble, the inertia felt by so many, and the ever more sophisticated war machine of our world today.”
Remembering the Forgotten Merton
History & Biography
“Everyone who reads The Seven Storey Mountain wants to know more about Thomas Merton’s only brother, John Paul. William J. Meegan’s Remembering the Forgotten Merton pieces together meticulously researched historical fragments to truly bring John Paul Merton to life. He is no longer forgotten.”
Christian Living
“The Only Mind Worth Having presents an eloquent and comprehensive exploration of the concept of the child mind in the life and thought of Thomas Merton . . . Gardner's excellent study brings fresh insight to Merton's concept of the true and false self.”
History & Biography
“Monica Weis's presentation of Merton's interest in Celtic Christianity is thorough and engaging, giving the reader a rich depiction of how the vibrancy of the Celtic world captivated and inspired Thomas Merton in the final decade of his life. The enthusiasm of both Merton and Weis for their subject is infectious and will encourage the reader in their own search for both the 'Promised Land of the Saints' and in their striving to live out of a 'transfigured center.'”
Thomas Merton and the Noonday Demon
History & Biography
“This book presents a thorough, engaging, and enlightening study of Merton's major periods of instability resulting from his desire for greater solitude . . . Through this marvelous piece of scholarship, the reader will gain new and fascinating insights into the life, vocation, and struggles of this great twentieth-century spiritual master.”
Thomas Merton—Evil and Why We Suffer
Theology
“In Thomas Merton: Evil and Why We Suffer, David Orberson carefully traces and delineates Merton’s writings on evil across his entire literary career, tracing developments in his thought against the background of the major theological approaches to evil and suffering. As Merton deeply pondered the immense evils of his own day, so Orberson provides us with similar tools to help us make sense of the evil and suffering in our world today.”
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