Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Dom Edmond Obrecht Collection of Gethsemani Abbey

Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Dom Edmond Obrecht Collection of Gethsemani Abbey
Author: Anna Kirkwood-Graham
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Cistercians
ISBN: 9781580442220

The Trappist abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky (the house of Thomas Merton) owns the eclectic Dom Edmond Obrecht Collection of manuscripts, which contains not only medieval manuscripts but materials of interest for the study of the French Revolution. Most items are of Cistercian origin, but other monastic traditions are represented as well. Produced between 1140-1960, the collection was brought to the USA during the first part of the twentieth century. This catalogue is the first and only full codicological description of these manuscripts.

The School of Charity

The School of Charity
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 455
Release: 1990-11-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1429966378

As the third volume in the series including The Hidden Ground of Love (1985) and The Road to Joy (1989), this collection features Thomas Merton's letters to members of religious communities around the world. Merton's questions about the monastic life, sometimes radical and disturbing, either arose from what was happening in his own experience or reflected the extraordinary changes that followed Vatican Council II.

The Cistercian Monastery of Zaraka, Greece

The Cistercian Monastery of Zaraka, Greece
Author: Sheila D. Campbell
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Cistercian monasteries
ISBN: 9781580442442

During the Frankish Crusader period, Cistercian monks built and developed the monastery of Zaraka in Greece for approximately forty years and were followed first by squatters, then by a seventeenth-century cemetery. The goal of this study has been to identify where the monks came from, how they lived, and why they left so suddenly.

The Seven Storey Mountain

The Seven Storey Mountain
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Christian Large Print
Total Pages: 770
Release: 1985
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802724977

One man's search to find his role in the world is revealed in the writer's portrait of his youthful political activism and entry into a Trappist monastery

ACi

ACi
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Total Pages: 338
Release: 1977
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New Catholic Encyclopedia: Fri-Hoh

New Catholic Encyclopedia: Fri-Hoh
Author: Catholic University of America
Publisher: Gale
Total Pages: 938
Release: 2003
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

This 15 volume, second edition features revised and new articles. Among the 12,000 entries in the encyclopedia are articles on theology, philosophy, history, literary figures, saints, musicians and much more.

An Introduction to Christian Mysticism

An Introduction to Christian Mysticism
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Cistercian Publications Books
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2008
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN:

In these conferences dating to 1961, Thomas Merton provides for his audience of young monks an overview of major themes and figures in the Christian mystical tradition as an integral part of their religious inheritance and a crucial part of their spiritual formation. From Fathers of the Church such as St Athanasius and St Gregory of Nyssa, through such important medieval theologians as St Bonaventure, Hadewijch and Meister Eckhart, to the great Spanish Carmelites St Teresa of Avila and St John of the Cross, Merton traces such key topics as the integration of theology and spirituality; the importance of "natural contemplation"--recognizing the divine presence in creation; the centrality of apophatic or "dark" contemplation; and the role of spiritual direction in forming mature and balanced contemplatives.