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The Thomas Merton Award, a peace prize, has been awarded since 1972 by the Thomas Merton Center for Peace and Social Justice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [55] The 2015, in tribute to the centennial year of Merton's birth, The Festival of Faiths in Louisville Kentucky honored his life and work with Sacred Journey’s the Legacy of Thomas Merton ...
In The Seven Storey Mountain, Merton reflects on his early life and on the quest for faith in God that led to his conversion to Roman Catholicism at age 23.Upon his conversion, Merton left a promising literary career, resigned his position as a teacher of English literature at St. Bonaventure's College in Olean, New York, and entered the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in rural Kentucky.
This year marked the 75th anniversary of his seminal work, ‘The Seven Storey Mountain.’
[17] [18] The Philokalia teachings have also influenced the revival of interior prayer in modern times through the centering prayer practices taught by Thomas Keating and Thomas Merton. [19] Philokalia is defined as the "love of the beautiful, the exalted, the excellent, understood as the transcendent source of life and the revelation of Truth."
James Finley (born May 30, 1943) is an American author, clinical psychologist and former Trappist monk at the Abbey of Gethsemane, under the spiritual direction of Thomas Merton. [ 1 ] Finley is the author of several popular books on spirituality and Christian mysticism including Merton's Palace of Nowhere, The Contemplative Heart , and ...
The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns. Harcourt. ISBN 0-15-640141-X. OCLC 26858207. Shannon, William H. (1994). Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Thomas Merton in Times of Crisis (The Thomas Merton Letters Series, 5). Farrar, Straus, Giroux. ISBN 0-374-29191-8. OCLC 30594669.
Thomas Merton's hermitage (interior) at the Abbey of Gethsemani Below is a bibliography of published works written by Thomas Merton , the Trappist monk of The Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani . Several of the works listed here have been published posthumously.
In 1978, Michael Mott was commissioned to write the authorized biography of Thomas Merton. The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton was published in 1984. The biography remained on the non-fiction The New York Times best-seller list for nine weeks. [citation needed] The book has had nine printings with 60,000 copies sold to date. Winner of a number ...