Making the Insights of Thomas Merton Accessible · 2020. 1. 25. · Zen and the Birds of Appetite...
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Making the Insights of Thomas Merton Accessible
Contemplation and the True Self
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Evening Agenda
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Some of Merton’s important works…
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Key Time
Period in
Merton’s
Life
Journey
Descent to Hell, through Purgatory and into Heaven (1915 –1949) -- 34 years
1915–1949
From Darkness to Light (1949 – 1958) – 9 years
1949–1958
Reengaging the World (1958 – 1968) – 10 years
1958–1968
We are all One –Interreligious Dialogue and Writings (1959 –1968) – 9 years
1959–1968
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Descent to Hell, through Purgatory and
into Heaven
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From Darkness to Light
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Reengaging the World
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We are all One
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Merton’s Christian Contemplative Spirituality
Whatever I may have
written, I think all can be
reduced in the end to
this one truth, that God
calls human persons to
union with Himself and
with one another in Christ... – “Concerning
the Collection in the
Bellarmine College
Library – A statement, November 10, 1963.”
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Evening Agenda
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Contemplation and the True Self