BOOKS by Thomas Merton

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1	The City of God more books like this by Saint Augustine of Hippo add to wishlist Saint Augustine, who spent 14 years composing this Christian and literary classic, wrote "City of God" as a defense of Christianity in the wake of the fall of the Roman Empire. "City of God" functions as a history of early Christianity, a critique of Roman polytheism, and a philosophy of history. Its central theme is the duality of good and evil. ... see all copies from £4.93! new only from £7.46! \| first editions
2	Thoughts in Solitude more books like this by Thomas Merton add to wishlist This collection of meditations, reflecting on the spiritual life and the love of solitude, form a sequel to "No man is an Island". see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The Way of Chuang Tzu more books like this by Thomas Merton add to wishlist Chuang Tzu considered, along with Lao Tzu, one of the great figures of early Taoist thought used parables and anecdotes, allegory, and paradox to illustrate that real happiness and freedom are found only in understanding the Tao or Way of nature, and dwelling in its unity. Thomas Mertons collection of poetic renderings taken from the Chinese ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £8.16! \| first editions
4	Seven-Storey Mountain more books like this by Thomas Merton add to wishlist Merton's classic account of the intense and brilliant young man who becomes restless in his life, and goes on a quest for faith and peace that leads him first to Catholicism and then to a Trappist monastery. see all copies from £4.38! new only from £6.14! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	No Man is an Island more books like this by Thomas Merton add to wishlist A collection of sixteen essays which probe the issues of human spirituality. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.57! \| first editions
6	Mystics and Zen Masters more books like this by Thomas Merton add to wishlist Thomas Merton was recognized as one of those rare Western minds that are entirety at home with the Zen experience. In this collection, he discusses diverse religious concepts -- early monasticism, Russian Orthodox spirituality, the Shakers, and Zen Buddhism -- with characteristic Western directness. Merton not only studied these religions from the ... see all copies from £6.23! new only from £7.09! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Zen and the Birds of Appetite more books like this by Thomas Merton add to wishlist Merton, one of the rare Western thinkers able to feel at home in the philosophies of the East, made the wisdom of Asia available to Westerners. This collection, which represents the best of his lucid essays on Zen from the 1960s, has gone through 20 printings since 1968. Two-color interior. see all copies from £4.50! new only from £4.50! \| first editions
8	New Seeds of Contemplation more books like this by Thomas Merton add to wishlist The much-beloved and most widely read of Merton's works, New Seeds of Contemplation covers a diverse range of subjects including faith, spiritual wonder, 'the night of the senses', and renunciation. The book moves the reader through the traditional phases of contemplation, and gives an idea of what to expect as the spiritual path unfolds, ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £6.88! \| first editions
9	Ascent to Truth more books like this by Thomas Merton add to wishlist Merton writes about Christian mysticism as a tradition and a pathway, drawing many of his observations from the writings of St. John of the Cross, the Spanish Carmelite monk. see all copies from £2.99! new only from £8.98! \| first editions
10	The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation more books like this by Thomas Merton, William H Shannon (Introduction by) add to wishlist This book provides a comprehensive understanding of contemplation that draws on the best of Western and Eastern traditions. The articles within this book have never been published together in one volume and aims to bridge the gap between the authors earlier work on Catholic monasticism and his later on Buddhims. see all copies from £6.19! new only from £8.02! \| first editions
11 view cover	The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals more books like this by Thomas Merton, Patrick Hart (Editor), Jonathan Montaldo (Editor) add to wishlist Selections from Merton's journals chronicle the challenges and the spiritual progress in the Trappist monk's life, reflecting his spiritual vision and self-scrutiny and acting as an accidental autobiography. A companion to his other published spiritual works. see all copies from £2.86! new only from £10.15! \| first editions
12 view cover	Contemplative Prayer more books like this by Thomas Merton add to wishlist Merton offers valuable guidance for prayer in this classic text. He brings together a wealth of meditative and mystical influences--from John of the Cross to Eastern desert monasticism--to create a spiritual path for today. see all copies from £3.09! new only from £5.77! \| first editions
13	Seeds of Contemplation more books like this by Thomas Merton add to wishlist see all copies from £2.44! first editions
14 view cover	A Book of Hours more books like this by Thomas Merton, Kathleen Deignan (Editor), John Giuliani (Illustrator) add to wishlist Thomas Merton was the most popular proponent of the Christian contemplative tradition in the twentieth century. Now, for the first time, some of his most lyrical and prayerful writings have been arranged into A Book of Hours, a rich resource for daily prayer and contemplation that imitates the increasingly popular ancient monastic practice of ... see all copies from £8.57! new only from £8.57!
15 view cover	Praying the Psalms more books like this by Thomas Merton add to wishlist Merton shows us how to draw out the richness of worship from the psalter and to use it to achieve "the peace that comes from submission to God's will and from perfect confidence in him".......Catholic Review Service see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| first editions
16 view cover	Life and holiness more books like this by Thomas Merton add to wishlist Merton's thoughts on what it means to be holy in the anxious onslaught of modernity. see all copies from £2.25! new only from £8.42! \| first editions
17 view cover	Spiritual direction and meditation more books like this by Thomas Merton add to wishlist Without really raising his voice once the author proceeds to the heart of each of these matters and speaks home truths for which all sorts of people--priests and religious and laity--will be grateful. see all copies from £3.41! new only from £3.41! \| first editions
18 view cover	Journals of Thomas Merton more books like this by Thomas Merton, Patrick Hart (Editor) add to wishlist The first of seven volumes of Thomas Merton's collected journals, these entries covers the years 1939-1941. They trace his life as a young, pre-monastic man, as a Greenwich Village graduate student, his ambitions to be published, and the probing questions that would lead him inexorably to find his true vocation. see all copies from £5.23! new only from £10.37! \| first editions
19 view cover	Seeds more books like this by Thomas Merton, Robert Inchausti (Selected by) add to wishlist Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk whose writings became an inspiration to Christians and other religious followers around the world, was a highly influential spiritual thinker and writer as well as a prophetic social critic. His writing brought together the candour of Thoreau with the moral vision of Gandhi. Though he lived as a monk, he was deeply ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.46! \| first editions
20 view cover	Wisdom of the Desert more books like this by Thomas Merton add to wishlist Merton's translation of a collection of "sayings" of the Desert Fathers is accompanied by an insightful introduction. see all copies from £1.90! new only from £4.31! \| first editions
21 view cover	The Sign of Jonas more books like this by Thomas Merton add to wishlist Merton's chronicle of his life in a Trappist monastery, which is also a spiritual account of the meaning and certainty he found in his new vocation. see all copies from £4.99! new only from £7.26! \| first editions
22 view cover	Disputed Questions more books like this by Thomas Merton add to wishlist Essays about the joining of the active and contemplative life, and the relationship of individuals to society. see all copies from £5.27! new only from £6.86! \| first editions
23 view cover	Conjectures of a guilty bystander more books like this by Thomas Merton add to wishlist A series of notes, opinions and reflections which Merton kept from 1956. see all copies from £5.04! new only from £10.07! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Raids on the Unspeakable more books like this by Thomas Merton add to wishlist Brief, but challenging essays in which the author looks candidly and without illusion at the world that man has made. Though he sees dark horizons, his ultimate answer is one of Christian hope. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £9.38!
25 view cover	School of Charity: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Renewal and Spiritual Direction more books like this by Thomas Merton add to wishlist Letters from Thomas Merton dealing with monastic life, religious reform and spiritual direction. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £9.72! \| first editions

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