Latest Thomas Merton Books

Fall Greetings and Blessings to all. I am listing four new books that have just come out.I would love to have orders from each of you and would be grateful if you could forward this email to your friends and others who you think may be interested. By James Martin, SJ.....paperback $10.00 (available now) By meditating on personal examples from the author's life, as well as reflecting on the inspirational life and writings of Thomas Merton, stories from the Gospels, as well as the lives of other holy men and women (among them, Henri Nouwen, Therese of Lisieux and Pope John XXIII) the reader will see how becoming who you are, and becoming the person that God created, is a simple path to happiness, peace of mind and even sanctity.

Edited by Christine M Bochen and William H. Shannon.....paperback $16.00
(Available by mid-October)
Published in book form for the first time, Thomas Merton’s Cold War Letters is a collection of 111 letters to friends, peace activists, artists, and intellectuals, written between October 1961 and October 1962 at the height of Cold War tensions.
Originally distributed in mimeographed form (after he was forbidden to publish his thoughts on peace), the letters reflect Merton’s prophetic insight into the
crisis of his time. As the world seemed to tumble toward Apocalypse, Merton sought in these letters—uncannily relevant for today—to create a community of concern that might raise a moral counterweight to the forces of fear and destruction.

By William Apel.....paperback $19.00 (Available now. Merton’s letters to interfaith friends illuminate the great challenge of dialogue and communion.
During the last decade of his life, Thomas Merton corresponded with numerous people around the globe about world religions and the need for interfaith understanding. Initiating contact with figures like Zen scholar D.T. Suzuki, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Rabbi Abraham Heschel, he sought not only to expand his understanding of other faiths, but to find like-minded friends who might share his dream of a global
community of the spirit. Such people, whom he called living “sacraments” or signs of peace, were those "able to unite in themselves and experience in their
own lives all that is best and most true in the numerous spiritual traditions

By James Harford.....HB $35.95 (Available late October)
A 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.

Thomas Merton, Robert Lax, and Edward Rice were college buddies who became life-long friends, literary innovators, and spiritual iconoclasts. Their friendship and collaboration began at Columbia College in the 1930s and reached its climax in the widely acclaimed magazine, which ran from 1953 to 1967, a year before Merton's death.. Rice was founder, publisher, editor, and art director; Merton and Lax
two of his steadiest collaborators. Well-known on campus for their high spirits, avant-garde appreciation of jazz and Joyce, and indiscriminate love of movies, they also shared their Catholic faith. Rice, a cradle Catholic, was godfather to both Merton and Lax. Shipping: $2.50 for one book, $3.00 for two books,$4.00 for three books.

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