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Making the Insights of Thomas Merton Accessible

Contemplation and the True Self

Evening Agenda

Some of Merton’s important works…

Key Time

Period in

Merton’s

Life

Journey

Descent to Hell, through Purgatory and into Heaven (1915 –1949) -- 34 years

1915–1949

From Darkness to Light (1949 – 1958) – 9 years

1949–1958

Reengaging the World (1958 – 1968) – 10 years

1958–1968

We are all One –Interreligious Dialogue and Writings (1959 –1968) – 9 years

1959–1968

Descent to Hell, through Purgatory and

into Heaven

From Darkness to Light

Reengaging the World

We are all One

Merton’s Christian Contemplative Spirituality

Whatever I may have

written, I think all can be

reduced in the end to

this one truth, that God

calls human persons to

union with Himself and

with one another in Christ... – “Concerning

the Collection in the

Bellarmine College

Library – A statement, November 10, 1963.”

Evening Agenda

Contemplation and the True Self