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The Ascent to Truth
A study of the mystical theology of John of the Cross read through Thomist categories: the role of intellect and faith in the dark night. It is his most academic book, and he himself regarded it as a failed attempt to systematise what resists system.
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English
The Ascent to Truth
Harvest/HBJ, 2002
ISBN 9780156027724
Thomas Merton
The Ascent to Truth
The Conscious LibraryThe Ascent to Truth
Harcourt Brace, 1951
Español
Thomas Merton
El ascenso a la verdad
The Conscious LibraryEl ascenso a la verdad
Editorial Sudamericana, 1954
Other works by Thomas Merton
- Thirty Poems · 1944
- A Man in the Divided Sea · 1946
- Figures for an Apocalypse · 1947
- Exile Ends in Glory · 1948
- What Are These Wounds? · 1948
- The Seven Storey Mountain · 1948
- Guide to Cistercian Life · 1948
- Cistercian Contemplatives · 1948
- The Spirit of Simplicity · 1948
- What Is Contemplation? · 1948
- Seeds of Contemplation · 1949
- The Tears of the Blind Lions · 1949
- The Waters of Siloe · 1949
- Gethsemani Magnificat · 1949
- 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
- Praying the Psalms · 1956
- Silence in Heaven · 1956
- The Silent Life · 1957
- The Strange Islands · 1957
- The Tower of Babel · 1957
- Basic Principles of Monastic Spirituality · 1957
- Monastic Peace · 1958
- Nativity Kerygma · 1958
- Prometheus: A Meditation · 1958
- Thoughts in Solitude · 1958
- The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton · 1959
- Selected Poems · 1959
- Disputed Questions · 1960
- The Wisdom of the Desert · 1960
- Spiritual Direction and Meditation · 1960
- The Solitary Life · 1960
- The New Man · 1961
- The Behavior of Titans · 1961
- New Seeds of Contemplation · 1961
- Original Child Bomb · 1962
- Hagia Sophia · 1962
- Clement of Alexandria · 1962
- A Thomas Merton Reader · 1962
- Breakthrough to Peace · 1962
- Life and Holiness · 1963
- Emblems of a Season of Fury · 1963
- Come to the Mountain · 1964
- Seeds of Destruction · 1964
- Gandhi on Non-Violence · 1965
- The Way of Chuang Tzu · 1965
- Seasons of Celebration · 1965
- Raids on the Unspeakable · 1966
- Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander · 1966
- Redeeming the Time · 1966
- Gethsemani: A Life of Praise · 1966
- Mystics and Zen Masters · 1967
- Cables to the Ace · 1968
- Faith and Violence · 1968
- Zen and the Birds of Appetite · 1968
- Monks Pond · 1968
- My Argument with the Gestapo · 1969
- Contemplative Prayer · 1969
- The Geography of Lograire · 1969
- Opening the Bible · 1970
- Contemplation in a World of Action · 1971
- Thomas Merton on Peace · 1971
- The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton · 1973
- He Is Risen · 1975
- Ishi Means Man · 1976
- The Monastic Journey · 1977
- The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton · 1977
- Love and Living · 1979
- Thomas Merton on Saint Bernard · 1980
- The Nonviolent Alternative · 1980
- The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton · 1981
- Day of a Stranger · 1981
- Introductions East and West · 1981
- Woods, Shore, Desert · 1982
- Eighteen Poems · 1985
- The Hidden Ground of Love · 1985
- A Vow of Conversation · 1988
- Thomas Merton in Alaska · 1988
- The Road to Joy · 1989
- The School of Charity · 1990
- The Springs of Contemplation · 1992
- Thomas Merton, Spiritual Master · 1992
- The Courage for Truth · 1993
- Witness to Freedom · 1994
- At Home in the World · 1995
- Thoughts on the East · 1995
- Run to the Mountain · 1995
- Entering the Silence · 1996
- A Search for Solitude · 1996
- Turning Toward the World · 1996
- Dancing in the Water of Life · 1997
- Learning to Love · 1997
- The Other Side of the Mountain · 1998
- Diarios (Spanish two-volume selection) · 2001
- Striving Towards Being · 1997
- Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters · 1997
- From Monastery to World · 1998
- The Intimate Merton · 1999
- Dialogues with Silence · 2001
- When Prophecy Still Had a Voice · 2001
- Survival or Prophecy? · 2002
- The Inner Experience · 2003
- Seeking Paradise · 2003
- Peace in the Post-Christian Era · 2004
- In the Dark Before Dawn · 2005
- Cassian and the Fathers · 2005
- Cold War Letters · 2006
- Pre-Benedictine Monasticism · 2006
- Echoing Silence · 2007
- An Introduction to Christian Mysticism · 2008
- A Life in Letters · 2008
- The Rule of Saint Benedict · 2009
- Compassionate Fire · 2009
- Monastic Observances · 2010
- The Life of the Vows · 2012
- Selected Essays · 2013
- In the Valley of Wormwood · 2013
- Merton and the Tao · 2013
- The Letters of Thomas Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer · 2014
- Early Essays, 1947–1952 · 2015
- Charter, Customs, and Constitutions of the Cistercians · 2015
- The Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton · 2015
- The Cistercian Fathers and Their Monastic Theology · 2016
- Cistercian Fathers and Forefathers · 2018
- Medieval Cistercian History · 2019
- A Monastic Introduction to Sacred Scripture · 2020
- Beholding Paradise · 2020
- Notes on Genesis and Exodus · 2021
Sources
- Shannon, William H.; Bochen, Christine M.; O'Connell, Patrick F. The Thomas Merton Encyclopedia. Maryknoll (NY): Orbis Books, 2002.
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