Recently added articles from CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health:
Global Prophet and Ecumenical Contemplative.(Thomas Merton)(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2009; ... This second gathering of Thomas Merton-related material is by authors we have come to know through our scholarly work publishing The Merton Annual: Studies in Culture, Spirituality and Social Concerns. That annual publication about Merton-related studies is now sponsored by The ...
Authentic identity is prayerful existence: a short commentary.(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009; ... This tape, carefully transcribed and edited by Brother Daniel Carrere, O.C.S.O., was recorded by Thomas Merton during the last years of his life while he was living as a hermit. In its simplicity, it does many valuable things. Above all, Merton reminds his listener that prayer cannot be a ...
Prayer and identity (transcript of a taped conference).(COMMENTARY)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... A few things on the life of prayer ... Do we know why we want to live lives of prayer? Are we praying in such a way that our prayer is simply for "something else"? It's all very well to pray for intentions, and to pray for the world, and to pray for health and all those things; still, a ...
Centering Prayer and attention of the heart.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... In the thirty years now since Centering Prayer first moved beyond the walls of St. Joseph's Abbey in Massachusetts and became a lay ground swell, it has certainly implanted itself deeply and (one hopes) permanently in the canon of Christian contemplative practice. Yet it still jostles ...
Thomas Merton's inclusivity and ecumenism; silencing the gong and cymbals.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The Making of an Ecumenist Passionate love of God and neighbor, and of learning, along with a prodigious gift of prophecy, appear to be unassailable signs of a saint. As a member of his religious community and correspondent to thousands, Thomas Merton as though unwittingly ...
Going East with Merton: forty years later-and coming West with Parmahansa Yogananda today.(Thomas Merton)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Parallels As the plane bearing him to Asia lifted off in October of 1968, Thomas Merton entered into his journal "I with Christian mantras and a great sense of destiny ... may I not come back without having settled the great affair ... I am going home, to the home where I have ...
"Fine and dangerous": teaching Merton.(Thomas Merton)(Viewpoint essay)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Introduction In the summer of 2008, while teaching a course on the literature and films associated with the Vietnam War, I tried to give my students a sense of the context of 1968, the year in which the Tet Offensive dramatically altered the American public's perception of that ...
A bibliographical note: Merton's complete journal as emblem of the spiritual journey.(Thomas Merton)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Merton's journals, which are published in fifteen different volumes, all of which are in print, are a very important resource about him for today's readers and spiritual seekers. While no explicit examination of Merton's three decades-long project of intense journal writing is provided ...
Signs of peace: the interfaith letters of Thomas Merton.(Books)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... WilliamApel Signs of Peace: The Interfaith Letters of Thomas Merton. Foreword by Paul M. Pearson (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2006) pp. xxi + 202. ISBN 13: 978-1-57075-681-8 (paperback). $19.00. In an icon over my desk, Thomas Merton, portrayed wearing ...
Cold War Letters.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Thomas Merton Cold War Letters. Edited by Christine M. Bochen and William H. Shannon. Foreword by James W. Douglass (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2006), pp. xxxiv + 206. ISBN 13: 978-1-57075-662-7 (paperback). $16.00. The ...
Thomas Merton global prophet.(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2009 ... Merton, grounded in the Christian monastic "School of Charity," stands as a prophet for humankind's future. On August 6, 1960 he wrote: "A prophet is one who cuts through great tangled webs of lies." His intense, compassionate vision, akin to Teilhard de Chardin's, invites all persons to ...
Commentary.(life and work of Thomas Merton)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009 ... Merton's radical mystical insight, a complete trust in "hidden wholeness," reveals an intuition, knowledge, and affirmation of God through embrace of contemplative wisdom. This fundamental insight became Merton's core poem, a unifying sustained prayer and a celebration of the assurance of ...
"The surest home is pointless": a pathless path through Merton's poetic corpus.(Thomas Merton)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Finding one's way through the 1,000-plus pages of the Collected Poems (1) is a daunting prospect for even the most dedicated reader of Thomas Merton. The sheer number of the poems, the obscurity of many of them, as well as their uneven quality, have tended to keep most Merton readers from ...
"Love for the paradise mystery": Thomas Merton: contemplative ecologist.(Viewpoint essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... "Love for the paradise mystery" (1) is a dominant motif woven through all the writings of Thomas Merton--a gossamer thread of mystical insight and prophetic urgency that fastens together the assemblage of his multi-focused literary legacy. Now, forty years after his death, a pentimento ...
Thomas Merton's re-visioning the new world at intercultural borders.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Much has been written about Merton's 1958 illuminative experience in downtown Louisville, when he suddenly experienced himself strongly united to the whole of the human race and rejoiced in the secret beauty of every person's heart. But not many Merton readers realize that this ...
Thomas Merton's contemplation: rarefied emblem of being human and living in mystery.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Robust contemplation With references to Zen Buddhism, Augustine of Hippo (354-430 C.E) and Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), this examination demonstrates the importance of Thomas Merton's understanding of contemplation which embodies the rare combination of ancient, medieval, ...
Excerpts from the International Thomas Merton Society General Meeting (2005) and The American benedictine academy convention (2008).
Jan 01, 2009; ... [From] Thomas Merton, Monk and Prophet of Peace: The Opening Address at the 2005 International Thomas Merton Society General Meeting (1) ... [F]rom my first contact with Merton's writings, I viewed him as a prophetic voice for our times. In fact, I believe that Merton himself, ...
What to listen for: Merton as teacher--a note.(Thomas Merton)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Hundreds of hours of tape: a hundred hours commercially released; scores of lectures selected and reviewed, (1) yet we have hardly begun to listen. An aspect of Merton, barely heard, are the voice recordings made from his hundreds of hours of lectures, often given on Sunday afternoon for ...
Book.('Cassian and the Fathers: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition', 'Pre-Benedictine Monasticism: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 2', and 'An Introduction to Christian Mysticism: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 3')(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Thomas Merton Cassian and the Fathers: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition. Edited with an Introduction by Patrick F. O'Connell. Foreword by Patrick Hart, OCSO. Preface by Columba Stewart, OSB. Monastic Wisdom Series 1 (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications, 2005), pp ....
Religious communities and global cities: a tribute to Lowell W. Livezey.(In memoriam)
Sep 22, 2008; ... "Let us heed the call of the city": Lowell W. Livezey and the formation of a vocation <Pre> "Religious leaders in New York City today face new and extensive challenges. The neighborhoods where they work are becoming increasing ethnically and religiously diverse. They work ...