“Merton Collection” (Bellarmine College)
Merton, John Paul (brother)
Merton, Thomas: about being voted the abbot; abstract drawings by; afflicted with poison oak/dermatitis; anniversary of arrival at Gethsemani; anniversary of ordination for; baptism anniversary of; counts year end blessings (1965); criticism of own spirituality; on Dom James; dreams experienced by; fiftieth birthday of; flu suffered by; health problems of; on his “hidden life,”; on his own frustrations; on his own work; invited to Latin American conference; invited to visit with Suzuki; jubilee year reflections by; justification by; on need for solitude; on own letter writing; packing to move into hermitage; permitted to sleep at hermitage; present view of the world by; on purposelessness of own activities; refused permission to travel; remembers himself as youth; self-evaluation by; speculates on General Chapter election; speech to Abbots; on “style” of liturgy; Suzuki visited by; on taking public position; telegram sent to CPF from; twenty-second anniversary habit reception of; vocation of; writes on “typical day,”
“Message to the Cronopios” (Grinberg)
Metaphysical consciousness
Miller, Father
Milosz, Czeslaw
Missale Romanum (1956)
Mississippi civil rights workers murder
Moby Dick (Melville)
Mohammed
Monastic life: “civil rights” issues in; crisis of some houses; illusion of; modern attitudes toward; postulants adapting to; reform of
Monastic Studies
“Monastic Vocation and Modern Thought” (Merton)
Monde
“Monk in Diaspora” (Merton)
Monte Cistello
Montgomery march
Moody, Dale
Moore, Msgr.
Moral of authenticity
More, Dame Gertrude
More, Paul Elmer
More, Thomas
Morin, Germaine
Mori, Renato
Moslem Saint of the Twentieth Century, A (Lings)
Mounier, Emmanuel
Moviegoer (Percy)
My People Is the Enemy (Stringfellow)
Mystici Corporis (Pius XII)
Mysticism
Namakura, Dr.
National Catholic Welfare Conference (NCWC)
National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB)
National Guardsmen (in Birmingham)
“Natural Law,”
Natural theology,
Navigatio Brendani
Nazism
Negro march on Washington (1963)
“New Man” pamphlet
New Testament anthropology
New York
New Zealand foundation
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Nicaraguan (Solentiname) community
Nicholas, Brother
Nicholas of Cusa
Nietzsche, Frederick
Nizan, Paul
Nobozu Yamada
No More Strangers (Berrigan)
Non-Christian religions
Non-ecology
Non-violence
Nooijen, Jeanne Cato
Noonan, Edward
Northbourne, Lord Walter
North Vietnam; See also Viet Nam war
Notebooks (Maritain)
Notes on the Lord’s Prayer (Maritain)
Nuclear deterrent (French)
Nuclear Disaster (Stonier)
Nuclear war
Nueva Solidaridad
Nunn, Louie
Obedience: abandonment and; in all; things; greater good and; redemption through; true meaning of; unto death; on vow of; as work,
O’Boyle, Archbishop
O’Connor, Flannery
Okamura, Mihoko
Oldenbourg, Zoë
Olduvai discovery
Olive Garden poem (Rilke)
One Million Dead (Gironella)
Optimism
Orent, Joel,
Oriental theology
Origen
Origo, Iris
Oswald, Lee Harvey
Otia Monastica
Our Lady
Our Sunday Visitor
Pacem in Terris (Pope John)
Pacifist suicides
Pallis, Marco
Palm Sunday (1965)
Panama crisis
Papademas, Costas
Papal Primacy
Parable of the Wedding Feast
“Parades for the dead” dream (Merton’s)
Para, Nicanor
Passion of Christ
Passion Sunday (1964)
Passion Sunday (1965)
Pauline anthropology
Paul’s Areopagus speech
Paul VI, Pope: actions during Council session; attacked in book; attempt on life of; Council Documents promulgated by; opening address at Council session; U.N. visited by; on Viet Nam; visit to Palestine; weekly statements by
Paustovsky, Konstantin
Pax romana
Peace
Peace movements; See also Viet Nam war
Peace in the Post-Christian Era (Merton)
Péguy, Charles Pierre
Peloquin, Alexander
Penelope, Sister
Percy, Walker
Peregrinatio myth
Perez, Leander
Perrin, Henri
Peter, Father
Phenomenological Movement, The (Spiegelberg)
Phenomenology
Philadelphia race riots (1964)
Philippe, Paul
Pilate (Pontius)
Pilgrimage of Etheria, The (Egeria)
“Pilgrimage to Crusade” (Merton)
Pilgrim, The (Serafian)
Pius XII, Pope
Placide [Deseille], Père
Placidia, Galla
Plato
Poemas Nuevos (Cortes)
Poet anthology
Poets
Poison ivy (Merton’s)
Police state methods
Political man (contemporary)
Political values
Politics; See also Viet Nam war
Pontifical Mass
Postulants’ Guide (Merton)
Power to sin
Prayer: action vs.; in the hermitage; love from; monastic dialogue on; See also Meditation
Prayer as Worship (Merton)
Precocious Autobiography, A (Yevtushenko)
Present Age, The (Kierkegaard)
Pride
Prisca, Sister
Prodigal story (Rilke)
Propaganda
Proslogion (St. Anselm)
Protestantism: Catholic Church as different from; charisms sweeping; through
Psalter
Pseudo-religions
Public position
Purification
Quies [rest]
Race riots
Race riots (Harlem)
Race riots (Philadelphia)
Racial justice; See also Civil rights
Racism
Rahner, Karl
Raids on the Unspeakable (Merton)
“Rain and the Rhinoceros” (Merton)
Ramparts
Rancé, Armand-Jean Le Bouthillier de
Randall, Meg
Rawicz, Piotr
Raymond [Flanagan], Father
Read, Herbert
Realized eschatology
“Real self,”
Recognition
Rectitudo
Rectitudo propter se servata [rectitude properly services itself]
“Redeemed community,”
Reinhardt, Ad
Relic of Benedict Joseph Labre
Relic of St. Benedict
Relics (St. Mary of Carmel Hermitage)
Religion in the Modern World (North bourne)
“Religion and Race in the United States” (Merton)
Religious Liberty declaration
Rent system
Renunciation
Residence on Earth (Neruda)
Respectful Prost
itute (Sartre)
Resurrection
Revelation Constitution
Reverend Father. See Dom James
Revision of life
Revolution
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Rise of Protestant Monasticism, The (Biot)
Roberts, Archbishop Thomas
Romans
Rozanov, Vasilii
Ruby, Jack
Ruinart, Thierry
SAC planes
Saint Antonin
St. Brendan’s isle
St. Stephen of Grandmont (1964)
Salmon, Dom
Santo Domingo missile bases
Sartre, Jean-Paul: Blackham on; compared to Anselm; compared to Merleau-Ponty; liberty of; meditation on Baudelaire by; Merton on attraction to; Merton purged of; preface to Aden Arabie by; right wing existentialism of; on Viet Nam war
Sarx (flesh)
Savio (Herrera), Brother
Schachter, Zalman
Schema
“Schema” (Louf)
Schema for Religious
Schillebeeckx, Edward
Schlier, Heinrich
School integration
Schuon, Frithjof
Scriptorium of St. Gall
Sean, Brother
Seasons of Celebration (Merton)
Second Epode
Seeds of Destruction (Merton)
Selma
Serafian, M.
Seraphim, Father
Serenity
Sex
Shaker Furniture preface
Shakers
Shaw, Cliff
Shoes of the Fisherman (West)
Sign of Jonas, The (Merton)
Silence
Sin: power to; relations with death and works; weight of,
Sin/punishment dream (Merton’s)
Six Existentialist Thinkers (Blackham)
Slipyj, Archbishop [Joseph]
Smalley, Beryl
Snowmass pamphlet
Social contacts
Socrates
Soka Gokkai movement
Solentiname community (Nicaragua)
Solitude: changing official attitude toward; as a decision; “Franciscanism” of Shantideva and; good and evil within; Merton’s need for,; power of; revelations of; serious nature of; setting standard for; struggle with invisible powers in; truth revealed during; See also Meditation
“Song of Women to the Poet” (Rilke)
Sortais, Dom Gabriel
Southern society
Space age
Spanish war
Spellman, Cardinal Francis S.
Spiegelberg, Herbert
Spirit of Counsel
Spiritual liberty
See also Freedom
Squirru, Rafael
Steere, Douglas
Stern, Karl
Stonier, Tom
Story of a Life, The (Paustovsky)
“Strategic hamlets,”
Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages (Smalley)
Study of Bloy, A (Merton)
Study of God (Kitaro)
Study of the Good (Nishida Kitaro)
Sufi tradition
Suhard, Cardinal
Sunday Concelebration
Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro
Swordsmanship
Syro-Malabar rite
Sze, Mai Mai
Tadié, Marie
Talking
Tao of Painting (Mai Mai Sze)
Tayoshi, Mrs.
Tea ceremony
Technological Society, The (Ellul)
Technology
Teilhard de Chardin,
Tertullian (Quintus Septimius Florens)
Thaddeus, Brother
Theology: of baptism; God is dead,; natural,; non-Christian; Oriental; as scientific doctrine,
Theophane the Recluse, Bishop
Third Sunday [of] Advent (1963)
Thomas, Saint
Thompson, Father August
Tibetans
Tillich, Paul
Timothy, Father
“Tongs of Jeopardy, The
Tonsure [crowns]
Torres, Garcia
Tract on Ecstasy (Jacobs)
Tricherie [trickery]
Truhlar, K. V.
Truth
Tung Shan
Unbelief
United States. See America Unity
Urtecho, José Coronel
Vallejo, César
Van Doren, Mark
Vatican II
Vatican Pavilion script
Verbum Caro (Balthasar)
Viet Nam war: bombings in; Christians supporting; horror of; in Life magazine,; Merton’s opposition to; mistakes of,; news about; pacifist suicides protesting,; Paul VI’s pronouncements on; peace movement opposing,; Sartre’s statements on,; U.S. divine mission belief and,; Vietnamese leaders during,; Vo Tanh Minh’s fasting protest against,
Violence: during civil rights protests; race riots and; racial provocation of; of revolution,; swordsmanship vs; of Viet Nam
Vita (Anselm)
Vitier, Cintio
Vocation
Vo Tanh Minh
Vows: flexibility of; of obedience,
Wallace, George
Walsh, Dan
Walter, Dom [Helmstetter]
Warren report
Washington civil rights demonstration
Waugh, Evelyn
Wedding Feast parable
Weil, Simone
Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi
West, Morris
Who Is Man (Heschel)
Wilder, Amos Niven
Wilder, Thornton
Wilfrid, Brother
Wilke, Ulfert
Will of God
Williams, Robert Laurence
Williams, Tom
Wilson, Edmund
Winser, Ann
Women
Worker solidarity
World: Christian outlook on the; Decree on the Church and the; Merton’s present view of the; reconciled to God in Christ
World Peace Mission Pilgrimage
World policeman (U.S.)
World’s Series
World War II
Wrath
Wu, John
Wulfric of Haselbury (Ford)
Wygal, James
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny,
Zaehner, Robert Charles
Zen
Zen garden
Zen Monasticism
“Zen Revival, The” (Merton)
Zinjanthropus discovery
Zorina, Vera
About the Author
THOMAS MERTON (1915-1968) was a Trappist monk, writer, and peace activist. His spiritual classics include The Seven Storey Mountain, New Seeds of Contemplation, The Sign of Jonas, and Mystics and Zen Masters.
DR. ROBERT E. DAGGY was director of the Thomas Merton Studies Center at Bellarmine College for twenty years and editor of a volume of Thomas Merton's Letters, The Road to Joy.
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Books by Thomas Merton
The Inner Experience
The Intimate Merton
Dialogues with Silence
A Year with Thomas Merton
The Other Side of the Mountain
Run to the Mountain (Journals I)
Entering the Silence (Journals II)
A Search for Solitude (Journals III)
Turning Toward the World (Journals IV)
Dancing in the Water of Life (Journals V)
Learning to Love (Journals VI)
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1Paul Philippe, O.P., Titular Archbishop of Heracleopolis, was Secretary of the Vatican’s Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
2Dom James Fox was at this time abbot of Gethsemani.
3Merton’s longtime friend and editor.
4Jean Mabillon (1632-1707), French Maurist, partially in conjunction with Thierry Ruinart (1657–1709), laid the foundation for a scientific approach to documentary criticism. He is considered the founder of the twin sciences of paleography and diplomatics.
5Dom Vital Klinski was former abbot of Achel Abbey, Belgium, and monk of Gethsemani since 1927.
6“The Shakers,” published in Jubilee, January 1964: 36–41.
7Merton translated The Solitary Life: A Letter of Guigo, published by Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1963.
8This article was eventually published as “The Zen Revival,” Continuum 1 (Winter 1964): 523–38
9Dom Gregorio Lemercier’s “project” in Cuernavaca, Mexico, seemed to Merton the answer to his quest for an eremitical lifestyle in the late 1950s.
10Published by New Directions in 1963.
11Letter from Cintio Vitier to Thomas Merton, Havana, Cuba, November 16, 1963 (Thomas Merton Studies Center, Bellarmine College, Louisville, Kentucky).
12This seems to be an error: St. Eligius’s feast day is December 1, not December 3, as Merton has recorded it here.