Volume 20 of The Merton Annual is now available and Volume 21 is due for publication in late Spring 2009. The Merton Annual is available to ITMS members as part of an enhanced membership package. Further details of this are available at the ITMS Membership web page.

Volume 20 - Table of Contents

• Kramer, Victor A. “Introduction: To Pray Contemplatively is to Work Mysteriously Toward the Center.” 7-15.

• Merton, Thomas. “Authentic Identity is Prayerful Existence.” 16-24.

• Kardong, Terrence G. “‘Simply Go In And Pray!’: St. Benedict’s Oratory In RB 52.” 25-37.

• Hoffman, Kathy. “Praying The Psalms: A Layperson’s Path to Contemplation.” 38-61.

• Egan, Keith J. “Thomas Merton’s Approach to St. John of the Cross.” 62-78.

• Hinson, E. Glenn. “Ignatian and Puritan Prayer: Surprising Similarities; A Comparison of Ignatius Loyola and Richard Baxter on Meditation.” 79-92.

• Hauser, Richard J. “From Thomas Merton’s ‘Contemplation’ to Ignatius of Loyola’s ‘Contemplation to Obtain Love’: A Personal Prayer Journey.” 93-108.

• Thurston, Bonnie. “‘Rising Up Out of the Center’: Thomas Merton on Prayer.” 109-122.

• Belcastro, David Joseph. “Praying the Questions: Merton of Times Square, Last of the Urban Hermits.” 123-150.

• Bourgeault, Cynthia. “Centering Prayer and Attention of the Heart.” 151-163.

• Farge, Emile J. “Thomas Merton and Paramahansa Yogananda: Two Prayerful Mergings of Cult and Culture.” 164-184.

• Thompson, Phillip. “Prayer in a High Tech World.” 185-202.

• Wells, Harry. “In Memoriam: ‘We Are Life, Its Shining Gift.’” 203-205.

• Corless, Roger. “The Christian Exploration of Non-Christian Religions: Merton’s Example of Where it Might Lead Us.” 206-224.

• Poks, Malgorzata. “The Meeting of Strangers: Thomas Merton’s Engagement with Latin America.” 225-242.

• Davis, Robert Leigh. “Sacred Play: Thomas Merton’s Cables to the Ace.” 243-264.

• McDonnell, Kilian. “An Interview with Fr. Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B.” Conducted by Victor A. Kramer. 265-277.

• Pedrizetti, Raymond. “An Interview with Fr. Raymond Pedrizetti, O.S.B.” Conducted by Victor A. Kramer. 278-291.

• Kramer, Victor A. “‘Living and Learning with Merton for Decades’: An Interview with Victor A. Kramer, Editor.” Conducted by Glenn Crider. 292-298.

• Grayston, Donald. “Week of a Stranger: Thomas Merton Bibliographic Review 2006.” 299-340.

• Dekar, Paul R. Rev. of The Cold War Letters by Thomas Merton and Signs of Peace by William Apel. 341-346.

• DelCogliano, Mark. Rev. of Pre-Benedictine Monasticism: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 2 by Thomas Merton, Edited with an Introduction by Patrick F. O’Connell. 346-353.

• Montello, Paul A. Rev. of Merton and Friends: A Joint Biography of Thomas Merton, Robert Lax, and Edward Rice by James Harford. 353-360.

• Feuerstein, Anthony. Rev. of Angelic Mistakes: The Art of Thomas Merton by Roger Lipsey. 360-363.

• Additional Reviews by Glenn Crider, Patrick F. O’Connell, Robert H. King, Catherine Crosby, Martha Gross, Dana Greene, Dewey W. Kramer, Paul Quenon, Wendy M. Wright, and Kimberly Boykin.

Contents of Earlier Volumes

The Merton Annual publishes articles about Thomas Merton and about related matters of major concern to his life and work. Its purpose is to enhance Merton's reputation as a writer and monk, to continue to develop his message for our times, and to provide a regular outlet for substantial Merton-related scholarship. The Merton Annual includes as regular features reviews, review-essays, a bibliographic survey, interviews, and first appearances of unpublished, or obscurely published Merton materials, photographs, and art. Essays about related literary and spiritual matters will also be considered.

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