Download or read book Remembering the Forgotten Merton written by William J. Meegan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-02-08 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book written about John Paul Merton, Thomas Merton's younger brother. Neither scholar nor saint, the life of John Paul Merton illustrates there is more than one way to live a meaningful and holy life. His was a quietly incubating spirituality guided by his law of love. He began life singing in a crib and ended his life praying as he lay dying in a dinghy in the English Channel during World War II. This book examines the relationship he had with his famous brother, Thomas, especially in the years before Tom became a monk. It examines, among other topics, the relationship between Thomas, the intellectual, and John Paul, the action-oriented younger brother. As a teenager, John Paul earned the nickname "Wildman," and as an adult he learned to live life to the fullest on his own terms. The bumps and bruises of his life--orphaned at twelve years of age, dismissed from Cornell without his degree, and frustrated in his effort to serve in World War II as a fighter pilot--were faced head on. He lived life as an optimist without losing sight of the reality of his world. Most importantly, John Paul's "journey of hidden holiness" can inspire each of us as we, too, journey onward.
Download or read book Merton and Friends written by James Harford and published by Continuum. This book was released on 2006 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Triple biography, told largely through their correspondence, of 3 college friends who ultimately went on to literary fame religious writer Thomas Merton, minimalist poet Robert Lax, and author/photographer/magazine publisher Edward Rice.
Download or read book Remembering the Forgotten War written by Michael Van Wagenen and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title addresses the deeper questions of how remembrance of the U.S.-Mexican War has influenced the complex relationship between these former enemies now turned friends.
Download or read book The Letters of Thomas Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer written by F. Douglas Scutchfield and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study affords an entirely new view of the nature of modern popular entertainment. American vaudeville is here regarded as the carefully elaborated ritual serving the different and paradoxical myth of the new urban folk. It demonstrates that the compulsive myth-making faculty in man is not limited to primitive ethnic groups or to serious art, that vaudeville cannot be dismissed as meaningless and irrelevant simply because it fits neither the criteria of formal criticsm or the familiar patterns of anthropological study. Using the methods for criticism developed by Susanne K. Langer and others, the author evaluates American vaudeville as a symbolic manifestation of basic values shared by the American people during the period 1885-1930. By examining vaudeville as folk ritual, the book reveals the unconscious symbolism basic to vaudeville-in its humor, magic, animal acts, music, and playlets, and also in the performers and the managers -- which gave form to the dominant American myth of success. This striking view of the new mass man as a folk and of his mythology rooted in the very empirical science devoted to dispelling myth has implications for the serious study of all forms of mass entertainment in America. The book is illustrated with a number of striking photographs.
Download or read book Remembering Who We Are written by Pia Smith Orleane and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laarkmaa is a loving group of Pleiadians who are dedicated to the evolution of humanity. In Remembering Who We Are, Laarkmaa shares revelatory insights on how we can heal ourselves from all of our discomfort and dis-ease. Guiding us towards unimaginable possibilities, Laarkmaa shares wisdom about the nature of energy, the polarities of fear and love, our life purpose, the power of speech, the illusion of time, how to heal our relationships, and how we can manifest a better world. Each truth they share builds upon a preceding insight, until we are ultimately given all of the tools we need to heal ourselves and our world. The reader arrives at the end of the journey to find a series of choices. Will we, individually and collectively, make the right choices for our own evolution?“ What an amazing gift…on so many levels. I was riveted; it seems so familiar, and I couldn’t put it down. Such a joy; thank you. It will certainly touch the hearts of those who remember, and I hope will ring a chord with those who have forgotten.”Nicola Merton-RichardsThe Martinsell Spiritual Center, U.K.“ This book brings an answer to my searching. There is so much here that gives me goosebumps as I read it. Fantastic job all the way around! Now, of course, I would like to buy copies to give to all of the people who need what Laarkmaa has to say.”Rebecca Gretz, Expressions of LoveRadio Host, U.S.A.“This book is simple and deep. The vast implications for what is possible are matched with the feelings of love behind the text. It is now up to me to engage in a personal practice to make positive changes in my life.”Hans Nilsson, Author, Discover YourProblem Solving Abilities, Sweden
Download or read book Engaging Thomas Merton written by Horan, OFM, Daniel P. and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Road to Joy written by Thomas Merton and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 1989-08-10 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of Thomas Merton's letters is devoted to his correspondence with friends -- relatives and family friends, longtime friends, special friends, young people he regarded as new friends, and circular letters addressed to groups of friends. They range from 1931, ten years before he became a monk, to 1968, the year in which he died at a monastic conference in Thailand.
Download or read book No Man is an Island written by Thomas Merton and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a stimulating series of spiritual reflections which will prove helpful for all struggling to find the meaning of human existence and to live the richest, fullest and noblest life. --Chicago Tribune
Download or read book Robert K Merton written by Craig Calhoun and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert K. Merton (1910-2003) was one of the most influential sociologists of the twentieth century, producing clear theories and innovative research that continue to shape multiple disciplines. Merton's reach can be felt in the study of social structure, social psychology, deviance, professions, organizations, culture, and science. Yet for all his fame, Merton is only partially understood. He is treated by scholars as a functional analyst, when in truth his contributions transcend paradigm. Gathering together twelve major sociologists, Craig Calhoun launches a thorough reconsideration of Merton's achievements and inspires a renewed engagement with sociological theory. Merton's work addressed the challenges of integrating research and theory. It connected different fields of empirical research and spoke to the importance of overcoming divisions between allegedly pure and applied sociology. Merton also sought to integrate sociology with the institutional analysis of science, each informing the other. By bringing together different aspects of his work in one volume, Calhoun illuminates the interdisciplinary and unifying dimensions of Merton's approach, while also advancing the intellectual agenda of an increasingly vital area of study. Contributors: Aaron L. Panofsky, University of California; Alan Sica, Pennsylvania State University; Alejandro Portes, Princeton University; Charles Camic, Northwestern University; Charles Tilly, Columbia University; Craig Calhoun, Social Science Research Council and New York University; Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, City University of New York; Harriet Zuckerman, Mellon Foundation; Peter Simonson, University of Colorado; Ragnvald Kalleberg, University of Oslo; Robert J. Sampson, Harvard University; Thomas F. Gieryn, Indiana University; Viviana A. Zelizer, Princeton University
Download or read book FORGOTTEN FIANCEE written by Lucy Gordon and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE WOMAN HE COULDN'T REMEMBER Not long ago, Justin Hallwood had been a hard-driving, big-city executive. Now he was inexplicably drawn to the little village of Haven—especially to Sarah Conroy, a lovely single mother with an adorable baby son. What hold did she have on him? THE MAN SHE SHOULDN'T FORGET Once, Sarah thought that she and Justin would be together always. Then she'd announced her pregnancy, and he was gone. Two years later he was back—with no memory of their shared past. Sarah knew that Justin was so close to remembering—but if he did, would it mean that Justin would be lost to her again…this time forever?
Download or read book Walking with James Martin SJ written by Robert Waldron and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of reflections on the life and writings of James Martin, SJ, who has gradually become one of our most important Catholic voices on modern spirituality, the heir apparent to writers like Thomas Merton and Henri Nouwen. .
Download or read book Miss Merton s Last Hope written by Heather Boyd and published by Heather Boyd. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years, Melanie Merton has used every trick and ruse to repel overeager gentlemen callers without ever revealing the real reason she won’t say yes to an offer of marriage. When neighbor Walter George jumps to her defense against slurs cast by suitor number twelve, he also pries into her past—uncovering the circumstances around a tragic loss in her childhood and her aversion to being touched by anyone. But even protective Walter must be kept at a distance for his own good, because despite a growing attraction between them, Melanie must deny him too. Unlike other men his age in Brighton, Walter George hadn’tconsidered Melanie Merton for a wife because he was convinced he’d never have a chance to impress his haughty neighbor. But that was before he understood her better, before he uncovered why she kept friends and suitors alike at bay. The right husband could restore the woman he sees into some semblance of the fun-loving child of his memory, but would Walter stand a chance or become just another unlucky suitor? Miss Merton’s Last Hopeis the fourth and final book in the Miss Mayhem series. Length: Novella (approx. 41,000 words) Sensuality Level: This is a steamy romance Miss Mayhem series: Book 1: Miss Watson’s First Scandal Book 2: Miss George’s Second Chance Book 3: Miss Radley’s Third Dare Book 4: Miss Merton’s Last Hope
Download or read book The Wounded Heart of Thomas Merton written by Robert G. Waldron and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Waldron's brief biography of Thomas Merton examines and exposes a man who lived a deeply spiritual life, yes, but also a deeply conflicted one as well. By the use of Jungian theory and archetypes, Waldron explores all of the major Merton works (e.g., Seven Storey Mountain, The Sign of Jonas, The Collected Poems, Zen and the Birds of Appetite), but especially all of the many volumes of Merton's private diaries, and discovers a man, a soul struggling to live "la vita nuova" in the monastery while being drawn by various sirens out of it. Edgy, chancy, and at times speculative, Waldron penetrates Merton's sometimes dense poetry and prose to discover or uncover what was wanting in Merton's soul his desire for his own hermitage; his longing for the nurse he fell in love with; his desire perhaps to establish an entirely new monastic foundation. Merton emerges less a saint than a sinner who never stopped trying to become a saint by "becoming who he really was."
Download or read book Archetypes of Conversion written by Anne Hunsaker Hawkins and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sensitive and imaginative study explores the phenomenon of conversion in three major religious autobiographies: the Confessions of Saint Augustine, Grace Abounding by John Bunyan, and Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain. These three religious figures could hardly be more different, and yet, as Hawkins shows, their conversion narratives are remarkably similar in patterns of theme, figure, and action. This archetypal approach is particularly appropriate to spiritual autobiography, which is less concerned with "self" than with "soul" and which seeks to relate the individual to a divine reality that is universal and timeless. Hawkins' approach to these texts is sophisticated, yet free of jargon and doctrinaire psychologizing. Here, archetypal analysis becomes not an end in itself, but also a means to investigate the complexity of the individual text. Hawkins' archetypal analysis serves not only to discern continuities, but also to explore cultural, ideological, and psychological variations. Adapting William James's distinction between crisis and lysis conversion, Hawkins shows that the conversion paradigm central to each autobiography determines its religious meaning, its formal structure, and its archetypal emphases. The author approaches the phenomena of conversion with a blend of critical detachment and imaginative sympathy. She is always careful to honor the authenticity of religious experience, and for this reason her commentary succeeds in illuminating it. The result is an interdisciplinary study that will appeal to the psychologist and literary critic as well as the student of religion. But these narratives of conversion offer paradigms that apply to any deeply significant change, for they are of interest and concern to all readers seeking to find meaning in their lives. Hawkins makes us feel both the immediacy and the permanence of these texts, for "What is human in them speaks to what is human in us."
Download or read book A Book of Hours written by Thomas Merton and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 "praying the hours." Editor Kathleen Deignan mined Merton's voluminous writings, arranging prayers for Dawn, Day, Dusk, and Dark for each of the days of the week. A Book of Hours allows for a slice of monastic contemplation in the midst of hectic modern life, with psalms, prayers, readings, and reflections.
Download or read book Disputed Questions written by Thomas Merton and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1985 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reflecting Thomas Merton's lifelong examination of the relationship between the monastic, contemplative life and the need for spiritual expression in the secular world, these essays explore the coming together of the active and the contemplative life and the relationship of persons to social organizations. Ranging from an account of the Greek monastic community on Mount Athos to a look at the spiritually destructive power of racism, Merton's writing manages to be both lively and profound as he leads the reader through the hard questions of modern existence, bringing together traditional religious values with a concern for the spiritual needs of the present day.".--cover matter.
Download or read book Merton written by Monica Furlong and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the life of Thomas Merton, whose autobiography about life as a monk (The Seven Storey Mountain) became an instant bestseller. Furlong interviewed many of Merton's monastic colleagues and students to write this biography. This edition has been updated to include new information.
