The Merton Annual

This page lists all articles for the years in question. For the contents of all volumes, see The Merton Annual Archive at The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University. They note that ‘the full-text of volumes 1 – 13 is currently available [on their website], along with the introduction, bibliography essay, oral history interviews and occasional articles, for subsequent volumes’.

Volume 34 (2021)

Deborah Pope Kehoe, ‘Introduction: The Many Faces of the Stranger’
Thomas Merton, ‘On Remembering Monsieur Delmas’, edited with an introduction by Patrick F. O’Connell
Bonnie Thurston, ‘The “Inward Stranger”: Challenge, Coordinates, Consequences’
Andrew Prevot, ‘Contemplation in Times of Crisis’
Gordon Oyer, ‘Thomas Merton’s Path toward Writing on Racial Concerns’
Michael W. Higgins, ‘Après Kamloops, le Déluge: Institutional Church, Indigenous Oppression and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition’
Christopher Pramuk, ‘”The Grey Face of the Other”: Sparks of the Divine in a Toppling World’
Gary P. Hall, ‘Up Close and Particular: Remembering Herman Hanekamp and Merton’s Other Insights into Loving Strangers’
James Robinson, ‘”The Age of Rosemarys”: Thomas Merton’s Engagement with Rosemary Radford Ruether and Rosemary Haughton’
John Marshell, ‘Unpacking the “Eastern Thing” of Thomas Merton’
Huili S. Stout, ‘Thomas Merton and the Difficulty of Interreligious Dialogue’
Patrick F. O’Connell, ‘Merton’s Strange Archipelago: Poetic Responses to a Prosaic Journey’
Robert Whalen, ‘Noir, Hip, Beat, Cool: Thomas Merton and the Postwar, Trans-Atlantic, Existentialist Avant-Garde’
Fred Herron, ‘Are We There Yet? Thomas Merton as Experience, Text and Event’
Deborah Pope Kehoe, ‘Extending the Frontier: A Bibliographic Review of 2020’
Peter Vale, Review of A Monastic Introduction to Sacred Scripture: Novitiate Conferences on Scripture and Liturgy 1 by Thomas Merton, edited with an introduction by Patrick F. O’Connell
J. Patrick Mahon, Review of Beholding Paradise: The Photographs of Thomas Merton, edited by Paul M. Pearson
Bernadette McNary-Zak, Review of Shaped by the End You Live For: Thomas Merton’s Monastic Spirituality by Bonnie Thurston
Tony Caldwell, Review of Authenticity, Passion, and Advocacy: Approaching Adolescent Spirituality from the Life and Wisdom of Thomas Merton by Thomas E. Malewitz
Patrick F. O’Connell, Review of Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and the Greatest Commandment: Radical Love in Times of Crisis by Julie Leininger Pycior
Michael N. McGregor, Review of Writing Straight with Crooked Lines: A Memoir by Jim Forest
John Sniegocki, Review of Advancing Nonviolence and Just Peace in the Church and the World, edited by Rose Marie Berger, Ken Butigan, Judy Coode and Marie Dennis

Volume 33 (2020)

Deborah P. Kehoe, ‘Introduction: Keeping the Faith and Keeping It Weird’
Thomas Merton, ‘”The Pope of the Virgin Mary” and Other Uncollected Marian Writings’ (Introduction by Patrick F. O’Connell)
Daniel P. Horan, ‘Racism Is a White Problem: Thomas Merton, Whiteness and Racial Justice’
Michael N. McGregor, ‘Making Ourselves Heard: Lessons from Thomas Merton’s Approach to Principled Dissent and Communal Renewal’
Bonnie Thurston, ‘Murdering Judas: Reconciling the Contemplative and the Poet in Thomas Merton’
Justin D. Klassen, ‘Peace beyond Prose: Augustine and Merton on Creation’s Useless Speech’
Patrick F. O’Connell, ‘If Not for Luther? – Thomas Merton and Erasmus’
Cristóbal Serrán-Pagán y Fuentes, ‘Panentheism in Thomas Merton and Teilhard de Chardin: Finding God in All Things’
Liana Gehl, ‘The Invisible Order of Grace: Ponderings on the Lives of Thomas Merton and Vladimir Ghika’
Gray Matthews, ‘Merton and Decoloniality: Facing the Whole-World’
Paul M. Pearson, ‘Wearing Our Mitres to Bed: Thomas Merton and the Need for Humor in “This Mad Place”‘
Joseph Q. Raab, ‘Beholding New Things and Reconciling All Things: A Bibliographic Review of 2019’
Gregory K. Hillis, Review of Medieval Cistercian History: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 9 by Thomas Merton, edited with an introduction by Patrick F. O’Connell
David Jospeh Belcastro, Review of A Course in Desert Spirituality: Fifteen Sessions with the Famous Trappist Monk by Thomas Merton, edited by Jon M. Sweeney
Patrick F. O’Connell, Review of Thomas Merton on Franz Kafka [CD]
David Orberson, Review of Thomas Merton’s Encounter with Buddhism and Beyond: His Interreligious Dialogue, Inter-Monastic Exchanges, and Their Legacy by Jaechan Anselmo Park
John Dadosky, Review of Merton and Indigenous Wisdom edited by Peter Savastano
Patrick F. O’Connell, Review of Guard the Human Image for It Is the Image of God edited by Gary Hall and Detlev Cuntz
Aaron K. Kerr, Review of The Artist Alive: Explorations in Music, Art & Theology by Christopher Pramuk
Thomas Malewitz, Review of Three Breaths and Begin: A Guide to Meditation in the Classroom by William Meyer
Tom Crosby, Review of Encounters in Thought: Beyond Instrumental Reason by Aaron K. Kerr

Volume 32 (2019)

Joseph Q. Raab, ‘Finding Your Right Mind in This Mad Place: An Introduction’
Thomas Merton and Patrick Hart, ‘Correspondence (1962–1968): Edited with an Introduction by Patrick F. O’Connell’
Rose Marie Berger, ‘Direct Transmission of Faith’
Robert Ellsberg, ‘”The Gate of Heaven Is Everywhere”: The Faith Journey of Thomas Merton’
Gregory K. Hillis, ‘Letters to a Black Catholic Priest: Thomas Merton, Fr. August Thompson and the Civil Rights Movement’
Paul R. Dekar, ‘God’s Messenger: Thomas Merton on Racial Justice’
Michael Plekon, ‘Communion and Engagement: Merton, Berrigan and the Eucharist in Peacemaking and Protest’
Liam Lynch, ‘Contemplative Cosmopolitanism: Thomas Merton’s Response to Xenophobia’
Patrick F. O’Connell, ‘Thomas Merton and the “Edenic Office of the Poet”: Three Poems from The Tears of the Blind Lions‘
Christopher Pramuk, ‘Merton on the Dark Side of the Moon: Points for Meditation and Deep Listening inside a Darkened Space’
Deborah Pope Kehoe, ‘Thomas Merton in Connivance with Eternity: A 2018 Bibliographic Review’
Kathleen. O’Neill OCSO, Cistercian Fathers and Forefathers: Essays and Conferences by Thomas Merton, edited by Patrick F. O’Connell
George G. Kehoe, The Climate of Monastic Prayer by Thomas Merton
Paul Pynkoski, The Art of Thomas Merton: A Divine Passion in Word and Vision, edited by John Moses
Patrick F. O’Connell, Thomas Merton on Augustine, Jerome, and Ambrose: The Philosophy of the Great Latin Fathers; Thomas Merton’s Great Sermons and Reflections; Thomas Merton on Literature: John Milton, T. S. Eliot, and Edwin Muir; Thomas Merton on William Faulkner. [CDs]
Malgorzata Poks, On Thomas Merton by Mary Gordon
Katharine Bubel, Superabundantly Alive: Thomas Merton’s Dance with the Feminine by Susan McCaslin and J. S. Porter
Patrick F. O’Connell, The Monk’s Record Player: Thomas Merton, Bob Dylan, and the Perilous Summer of 1966 by Robert Hudson
Bernadette McNary-Zak, Thomas Merton: Evil and Why We Suffer – From Purified Soul Theodicy to Zen by David Orberson
Michael W. Higgins, The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton: An Investigation by Hugh Turley and David Martin
Cassidy Hall, Merton’s Palace of Nowhere – 40th Anniversary Edition by James Finley
David Joseph Belcastro, What I Am Living For: Lessons from the Life and Writings of Thomas Merton, edited by Jon M. Sweeney

Volume 31 (2018)

Deborah Pope Kehoe, ‘Introduction: The Dead Say Only One Word’
Thomas Merton, ‘Two Conferences on Prayer: India 1968’
Daniel C. Walsh, ‘Homily for the Funeral Mass of Father Louis Merton, OCSO’
Daniel P. Horan, ‘Seeds of Inspiration: The Life and Legacy of Thomas Merton (1915–1968)’
Thomas Malewitz, ‘From the Mountain to the Cross: Revisiting 1968 through the Prophetic Words of King, Kennedy, Chavez and Merton’
William Apel, ‘Crisis of Faith: Thomas Merton and the Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.’
Fiona Gardner, ‘Kanchenjunga – “Yin-yang Palace of Opposites in Unity”: Reflections on Thomas Merton’s Experiences on the Mim Tea Estate Retreat’
Kathleen M. Baker, ‘Disrupting Disparities in a Mythic Place: Internal Engagement in the Country of Lograire’
Malgorzata Poks, ‘Dismantling the Rule of the Father: Towards the Kingdom of the Im/Possible in The Geography of Lograire‘
David Golemboski, ‘The Familiar Perspectives of American History: Thomas Merton on Black and Indigenous Oppression in the United States’
Marcela Raggio, ‘Thomas Merton’s Nostalgia’
Chad R. Thralls, ‘From “Get out of My Way” to “Shining like the Sun”: Thomas Merton on Cities, Community and Solitude’
Zachary Garrett, ‘Writing in the Shadow of the Apocalyptic Cherub: Autobiographical Forms in Day of a Stranger‘
Michael N. McGregor, ‘Harpo and the Clown of God: The Seven-Storied Friendship of Thomas Merton and Robert Lax’
Joseph Q. Raab, ‘A Prophet Is Never Passé: A Bibliographic Review of 2017’

Volume 30 (2017)

Joseph Quinn Raab, ‘Introduction: From Graduate School to Gethsemani – A Pilgrimage of Prophecy and Prayer’
Thomas Merton, ‘Letters to Pat edited and introduced by Paul M. Pearson’
Benedetto Calati, ‘Thomas Merton: Gift of God for the Monks of Our Time’
Mary Frances Coady, ‘”A Fire That Burns”: Thomas Merton, Catherine de Hueck Doherty and the Story of The Secular Journal‘
Ryan L. Scruggs, ‘The “One Merciful Event”: Thomas Merton on Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo‘
Daniel P. Horan, ‘Kyrie Eleison: Mercy at the Heart of Thomas Merton’s Theology of Revelation’
David Golemboski, ‘A Mysterious, Unaccountable Mixture of Good and Evil: Thomas Merton on Cooperation and Complicity’
June-Ann Greeley, ‘The Mercy of God: Mary as a Mercy for Humanity and as the Mediatrix of Salvation’
Cristóbal Serrán-Pagán y Fuentes, ‘Divine Mercy in Thomas Merton and St. John of the Cross: Encountering the Dark Nights in the Human Soul’
Gordon Oyer, ‘Thomas Merton and the “Pessimism” of Jacques Ellul’
Michael Plekon, ‘God’s Mercy and Foolish Love: Thomas Merton and Paul Evdokimov’
M. Shawn Copeland, ‘The Watchmen and the Witnesses: Thomas Merton, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Exercise of the Prophetic’
Christopher Fici, ‘”Larger, Freer, and More Loving”: Confronting and Healing the Infection of Whiteness with Thomas Merton and James Baldwin’
Robert Weldon Whalen, ‘Thomas Merton and John Coltrane: Jazz and the Mercy beyond Being’
Deborah Pope Kehoe, ‘Five Ways of Looking at a Monk: A Bibliographic Review of 2016’