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Recommended Merton Readings

This Rock Volume 19, Number 5   May-June 2008     Reasons for Hope By Cherie Peacock   Letters   Can You Trust Thomas Merton? By Anthony E. Clark   Recommended Merton Readings   Read with Caution   Christians in Islamic Lands: Part Two By Matthew E. Bunson   In His Own Words: The Holy Father and Islam   Unyielding Faith: The Martyrs of Uganda By Joanna Bogle   Two Churches, One Martyrdom   Uganda: The Real ABC’s of an Epidemic By Matthew E. Bunson   Why the ABC Message Worked   Is Everything in the Bible True? By Karlo Broussard   Firmly, Faithfully, and without Error   Genre and the Principle of Assertion   Further Reading   Damascus Road Confession Set Me Free By Emily Cerf   By the Book How Can Mary Be God’s Mother? By Tim Staples   Eyes to See Rational Monsters By Michael Schrauzer   Truth be Told Remember This about November Fifth By Robert P. Lockwood   Quick Questions   Last Writes By Karl Keating    Subscribe    Permissions

These works represent the early era of Merton’s monastic life, and his views are still quite orthodox. These books are beautifully written; they are what made Thomas Merton Thomas Merton.

• The Seven Storey Mountain, 1948
• The Tears of the Blind Lions, 1949
• Waters of Siloe, 1949
• Seeds of Contemplation, 1949
• The Ascent to Truth, 1951
• Bread in the Wilderness, 1953
• The Sign of Jonas, 1953
• The Last of the Fathers, 1954
• No Man is an Island, 1955
• The Living Bread, 1956
• The Silent Life, 1957
• Thoughts in Solitude, 1958