Thomas Merton bibliography
Below is a bibliography of published works written by
The Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani
. Several of the works listed here have been published posthumously. The works are listed under each category by date of publication.
Autobiographies
- OCLC 385657.
- The Sign of Jonas. Harcourt Brace. 1953. OCLC 386887.
- Day of a Stranger. Peregrine Smith. 1981. OCLC 7653290.
Biblical topics
- Bread in the Wilderness. New Directions. 1953. OCLC 371126.
- The Living Bread. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. 1956. OCLC 386309.
- Praying the Psalms. The Liturgical Press. 1956.
- He Is Risen. Argus Communications. 1975. ISBN 0-913592-58-7.
Biographies
- Exile Ends in Glory: The Life of a Trappistine, Mother M. Berchmans, O.C.S.O. Bruce Publishing Company. 1948. OCLC 932012.
- What are these wounds?: The Life of a Cistercian Mystic, Saint Lutgarde of Aywières. Clonmore and Reynolds. 1948. OCLC 2952957.
- The Last of the Fathers: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and the Encyclical Letter, Doctor Mellifluus. Harcourt Brace. 1954. OCLC 502123.
Contemplation and meditations
- Seeds of Contemplation. New Directions. 1949. OCLC 225115.
- The Ascent to Truth. Harcourt Brace. 1951. OCLC 172787.
- Disputed Questions. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. 1960. OCLC 386651.
- New Seeds of Contemplation. London: Burns & Oates. 1962. OCLC 43261344.
- Raids on the Unspeakable. New Directions. 1966. OCLC 1155682. (Preview at Google Books)
- Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander. DoubleDay. 1966. OCLC 712184.
- The Climate of Monastic Prayer. Liturgical Press. 2018. OCLC 1042336195.
- Contemplative Prayer. Herder and Herder. 1969. OCLC 16848.
- What is Contemplation. Templegate. 1978. [1st published 1950]
Eastern thought
- The Way of Chuang Tzu. New Directions. 1965. OCLC 783366.
- Mystics and Zen Masters. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1967. OCLC 377395.
- Zen and the Birds of Appetite. New Directions. 1968. OCLC 276806.
- The Inner Experience. 2003.
Journal writings
- Run to the Mountain: The Story of a Vocation (The Journals of Thomas Merton, volume I: 1939–1941). 1995.
- Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and Writer (Journals, II: 1941–1952). 1996.
- A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life (Journals, III: 1952–1960). 1996.
- Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years (Journals, IV: 1960–1963). 1996.
- Dancing in the Water of Life: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage (Journals, V: 1963–1965). 1997.
- Learning to Love: Exploring Solitude and Freedom (Journals VI: 1966–1967). 1997.
- The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey (Journals VII: 1967–1968). 1998.
- The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. 1959. OCLC 14521398.
- The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton. New Directions. 1973. ISBN 0-8112-0464-2.
- Woods, Shore and Desert: A Notebook, May 1968. Museum of New Mexico Press. 1982. ISBN 0-89013-140-6.
- A Vow of Conversation: Journals 1964–1965. 1988.
- The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals. 1999.
- Cassian and the Fathers: Notes for Conferences Given in the Choir Novitiate, Abbey of Gethsemani. 2005. OCLC 16520690.
Letters
- The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters on Religious Experience and Social Concerns (Letters, I). 1985.
- The Road to Joy: Letter to New and Old Friends (Letters, II). 1989.
- The School of Charity: Letters on Religious Renewal and Spiritual Direction (Letters, III). 1990.
- The Courage for Truth: Letters to Writers (Letters, IV). 1993.
- Witness to Freedom: Letters in Times of Crisis (Letters, V). 1994.
- Merton, Thomas; Czeslaw, Milosz (1997). Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
- Merton, Thomas; LeClercq, Jean (2002). Survival or Prophecy?: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Jean LeClercq. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
- Papagni, Mario (2006). The Cold War Letters of Thomas Merton. M.A. Thesis: Spring Hill College. OCLC 51181592.
- Merton, Thomas (2008). William H. Shannon; Christine M. Bochen (eds.). Thomas Merton: A Life In Letters. Harperone. OCLC 276930483.
- Merton, Thomas (2010). William H. Shannon; Christine M. Bochen (eds.). Thomas Merton: A Life In Letters. Notre Dame, Indiana: Ave Maria Press. ISBN 978-1-59471-256-2.
Monastic, church and spiritual life
- The Waters of Siloe. Harcourt Brace. 1949. OCLC 386181.
- No Man Is an Island. Harcourt Brace. 1955. OCLC 388043.
- Silence in Heaven. Studio. 1956.
- The Silent Life. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. 1957. OCLC 774280.
- Thoughts in Solitude. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. 1958. OCLC 388042.
- The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings From the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century. New Directions. 1960. OCLC 943800.
- Spiritual Direction and Meditation. Liturgical Press. 1960. OCLC 255764.
- The New Man. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. 1961. OCLC 710446.
- Life and Holiness. Herder and Herder. 1963. OCLC 387439.
- Seasons of Celebration. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1965. OCLC 386274.
- Gethsemani: A Life of Praise. 1966. OCLC 969279.
- Contemplation in a World of Action. Doubleday. 1971. OCLC 127701.
- Cistercian Life. Cistercian Book Services. 1974.
- Merton, Thomas; Hart, Patrick (1977). The Monastic Journey. Sheldon Press. OCLC 3423688.
- Merton, Thomas; Burton, Naomi; Hart, Patrick (1979). Love and Living. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 0-15-653895-4.
- Merton, Thomas; Daggy, Robert E. (1981). Introductions East and West: The Foreign Prefaces of Thomas Merton. Unicorn Press. OCLC 59232683.
- Opening the Bible. 1986.
- Thomas Merton in Alaska: The Alaskan Conferences, Journals and Letters. 1988.
- Dialogues with Silence. 2001.
- Love and Living. Harcourt Trade Publishers. 2002. ISBN 0-15-602799-2.
- Seeking Paradise: The Spirit of the Shakers. 2003.
Novel
- My Argument with the Gestapo: A Macaronic Journal. Doubleday. 1969. OCLC 13332.
Poetry
- Thirty Poems. New Directions. 1944. OCLC 1911736.
- A Man in the Divided Sea. New Directions. 1946. OCLC 1454855.
- The Tears of the Blind Lions. New Directions. 1949. OCLC 224716.
- The Strange Islands: Poems. New Directions. 1957. OCLC 289506.
- Selected Poems. J. Laughlin. 1959. OCLC 123120117.
- Emblems of a Season of Fury. New Directions. 1963. OCLC 289508.
- Monks Pond: No. 1, 1968. 1968. OCLC 170840170.
- Cables to the Ace. New Directions. 1968. OCLC 439169.
- The Geography of Lograire. New Directions. 1969. OCLC 58131.
- The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton. New Directions. 1977. ISBN 0-8112-0643-2.
- In The Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton. New Directions. 2005. OCLC 57414753.
Social issues
- Seeds of Destruction. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1964. OCLC 306973.
- Gandhi on Non-Violence. New Directions. 1965. OCLC 60860722.
- Faith and Violence. University of Notre Dame Press. 1968. OCLC 327320.
- The Non-Violent Alternative. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1980. OCLC 174711710. (Revised ed. of Thomas Merton On Peace. The McCall Publishing Company. 1971.)
- Peace in a Post-Christian Era. 2004.
Other
- The Behavior of Titans. New Directions. 1961. OCLC 1086883.
- ISBN 0-87775-100-5.
- Merton, Thomas; Hart, Patrick (1981). The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton. New Directions.
- Merton, Thomas (1992). Thomas Merton: Spiritual Master. edited by Laurence S. Cunningham. Paulist Press.
See also
References
- Breit, Marquita E.; Robert E. Daggy (1986). Thomas Merton: A Comprehensive Bibliography.
- Breit, Marquita E.; Patricia A. Burton; Paul M. Pearson (2002). 'About Merton': Secondary Sources 1945-2000: A Bibliographic Workbook.