Our Centenary Edition of The Merton Journal, Universal Vision, is an enlarged volume of 200 pages with contributors from across Europe. It explores Merton's profound legacy in a unique collection of essays and meditations; and it also includes some of Merton's own newly-discovered student articles from his time at Cambridge University in 1933-34. Contact centenary.edition@thomasmertonsociety.org.uk for further details.
Recent books about Thomas Merton:
Signs of Hope - Thomas Merton’s Letters on Peace, Race and Ecology
Gordon Oyer
17 Nov 2021
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Shaped by the End You Live For: Thomas Merton's Monastic Spirituality
Bonnie Thurston
22 April 2020
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We Are All Poets Here
Kathleen Tarr
27 January 2018
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Guard the Human Image for it is the Image of God
Gary Hall & Detlev Cuntz
1 August 2019
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Writing Straight with Crooked Lines:
A Memoir
Jim Forest
15 April 2020
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Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.
- Thomas Merton, a recorded talk, 'Life and Solitude'