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Thomas Merton OCSO (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968), religious name M. Louis, was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist and scholar of comparative religion.
The Seven Storey Mountain is the 1948 autobiography of Thomas Merton, an American Trappist monk and priest who was a noted author in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Merton finished the book in 1946 at the age of 31, five years after entering Gethsemani Abbey near Bardstown, Kentucky.
The name was taken from Thomas Merton's description of contemplative prayer, from which Centering Prayer draws, as prayer that is "centered entirely on the presence of God". [ web 1 ] In his book Contemplative Prayer , Merton writes "Monastic prayer begins not so much with 'considerations' as with a 'return to the heart,' finding one's deepest ...
This year marked the 75th anniversary of his seminal work, ‘The Seven Storey Mountain.’
One of the leading exponents of monastic contemplative awareness is Thomas Merton. From Thoughts in Solitude (1956) According to Merton, silence represents a form of transcending paradoxes such as he may have encountered in zazen training. "Contradictions have always existed in the soul of [individuals].
Inchausti, Robert; Merton, Thomas (2007). Echoing Silence: Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing. New Seeds. ISBN 978-1-59030-348-1. OCLC 71369064. King, Robert Harlan (2001). Thomas Merton and Thich Nhat Hanh: Engaged Spirituality in an Age of Globalization. Continuum International Publishing. ISBN 0-8264-1340-4. OCLC 47081263.
Quietism is the name given (especially in Catholic theology) to a set of contemplative practices that rose in popularity in France, Italy, and Spain during the late 1670s and 1680s, particularly associated with the writings of the Spanish mystic Miguel de Molinos (and subsequently François Malaval and Madame Guyon), and which were condemned as heresy by Pope Innocent XI in the papal bull ...
Thomas Merton's hermitage (interior) at the Abbey of Gethsemani Below is a bibliography of published works written by Thomas Merton , the Trappist monk of The Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani . Several of the works listed here have been published posthumously.