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Owen Merton
Produced to support the first comprehensive retrospective exhibition of paintings by landscape watercolourist Owen Merton (1887-1931). Exhibition: 11 June - 26 September 2004
A Bermuda Interlude
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Thomas Merton's Art of Denial
Trappist monk and best-selling author, Thomas Merton battled constantly within himself as he attempted to reconcile two seemingly incompatible roles in life. As a devout Catholic, he took vows of silence and stability, longing for the security and closure of the monastic life. But as a writer he felt compelled to seek friendships in literary circles and success in the secular world. In Thomas Merton's Art of Denial, David D. Cooper traces Merton's attempts to reach an accommodation with himself, to find a way in which "the silence of the monk could live compatibly with the racket of the writer." From the roots of this painful division in the unsettled early years of Merton's life, to the tur...
Thomas Merton
First published: London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2007.
Remembering the Forgotten Merton
This is the first book written about John Paul Merton, Thomas Merton’s younger brother. Neither scholar nor saint, the life of John Paul Merton illustrates there is more than one way to live a meaningful and holy life. His was a quietly incubating spirituality guided by his law of love. He began life singing in a crib and ended his life praying as he lay dying in a dinghy in the English Channel during World War II. This book examines the relationship he had with his famous brother, Thomas, especially in the years before Tom became a monk. It examines, among other topics, the relationship between Thomas, the intellectual, and John Paul, the action-oriented younger brother. As a teenager, Jo...
Walking with Thomas Merton
An appreciation, in journal form, of Thomas Merton as spiritual writer, monk and poet.
