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Zvi Bodie, Robert C. Merton, Richard T. Thakor
This book covers the first course in finance as well as follow-on courses. Structured around ten core principles of finance, the contents accommodate a wide range of curricula and institutional…
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Thomas Merton
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.
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Thomas Merton, OCSO
"In May and October of 1968, Thomas Merton offered two extended conferences at Our Lady of the Redwoods Abbey, a Cistercian women's community in Northern California. It is comprised of…
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David E. Oberson
David Oberson illuminates Thomas Merton's unique view of his own society, aiding Christians in navigating a post-Christian, post-truth world.
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Maryann P Diedwardo
The Significance of the Writing of Thomas Merton, Cultivating Peace, is a case study based on Thomas Merton's writing. The research of his work is essential to literary collections, worldwide…
A great introduction to the religions of the East by a monk from the West.
Mrs Humphry Ward
"Lady Merton, Colonist" by Mrs. Humphry Ward is a captivating exploration of colonialism's impact on society and family dynamics. Set against the backdrop of England and Australia, the novel delves…
Andrea Penrose
A perplexing murder in a renowned Oxford University library and a suspicious fire at a famous inventor's London laboratory set Wrexford and Lady Charlotte on two separate investigations in this…
James Heywood
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
The New Man shows Thomas Merton at the height of his powers and has as its theme the question of spiritual identity. What must we do to recover possession of…
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Noted member of the Cistercian Order, commonly known as Trappists, and noted for its auster, contemplative life style, studies the historical and philosophic development of the order from its 12th…
Merton presents one of the most significant encyclical letters of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, together with an introduction to the life and teachings of the great mystic. A study that…
This classic of faith has touched millions of lives–and is now available in a beautiful gift edition.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard,Thomas Merton
Thirty-eight photographs by Ralph Meatyard, an important if often-overlooked American photographer, provide an intimate look at the private life of one of the most renowned and influential spiritual thinkers of…
Mary Gordon
A probing, candid exploration of Thomas Merton’s life and writing from best-selling novelist and memoirist Mary Gordon.
Thomas Merton (1815-1968) was a Trappist monk, poet, essayist, activist, and author of…
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…
From the best-selling novelist and memoirist- a deeply personal view of her discovery of the celebrated modern monk and thinker through his writings.
Thomas Merton (1815-1968) was a Trappist monk…
This book is to consider some of the special ques-tions and problems which surround the Bible itself–a book for which all blurbs are impossible.
Poet, Trappist monk, religious philosopher, translator, social critic: the late Thomas Merton was all these things. This classic selection from his great body of poetry affords a comprehensive view of…
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This early work by Anglo-American Catholic writer Thomas Merton is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains a wealth of information on spiritual direction and…
Thomas Day
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1809 Original Publisher: Printed by Warner
Thomas Merton war zuerst Dandy in der New Yorker Kunstszene, zog sich dann aber 1941 ins Trappistenkloster Gethesemani in Kentucky zuruck, wurde Monch und in der Folge einer der bedeutendsten…
This volume of previously uncollected studies makes a notable contribution to Merton’s extensive and influential legacy. This volume includes pieces on eleventh- and twelfth-century mo-nastics by Thomas Merton, perhaps the…
Thomas Merton’s biography of a little known saint, St. Lutgarde of Aywieres, the Cistercian mystic, now reissued.
Cold War Letters features censored letters.
The essays, talks and letters collected here, allied with a selection of Merton’s photographs of a Shaker village, present a haunting evocation of a lost tradition.
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Here is Thomas Merton’s biography of Mother Berchmans (1876-1915), a French Trappistine. He had been inspired by her strength of spirit that enabled her to leave behind beloved home in…
In Bread in the Wilderness, Merton looks at the psalms as poetry; in this book he regards them as prayer. Guiding the reader through the more representative psalms, he explains…
Merton offers advice on living the full life of a Christian in a world that he believes is increasingly out of touch with real humanity and with God.
Wherever man and society exist; where there are hopes, ideals, aspirations for a better future; where there is love - and where there is mingled pain and happiness - there…
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, c1979.
2014 Reprint of 1950 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The gifted Trappist, Thomas Merton, here gives a sympathetic interpretation of the interior…
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…
In this succinct and readily accessible work, Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, offers compelling thoughts on what it means to be holy in the face of the anxieties of the…
This is Merton's Guide to basic principles of Roman Catholic spirituality for lay and religious aspirants. With a simplicity of language and an intellectual candor that exemplify the purity of…
The writings in this work were precipitated by a variety of events during the last decades of Merton’s life - the civil rights and peace movements of the 1960s among…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
The Trappist monk employs a Christian perspective to examine such contemporary moral concerns as communism, racial unrest, violence, and the move away from organized religion.
The spiritual and psychological insights of these essays were nurtured in a monastic milieu, but their issues are universally human. Thomas Merton lays a foundation for personal growth and transformation…
