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Travels in the Confederate States [microform].
No full textRelated work(s): Coulter, E. Merton (Ellis Merton), 1890-1981 Travels in the Confederate States, a bibliography. Notes: Microfiche collection of titles from the bibliography Travels in the Confederate States by Ellis Merton Coulter published in 1948.
Previously issued in a microcard edition in 1956 by Lost Cause Press, Louisville, Kentucky.
Contents arranged alphabetically by author.
Guide has title: Travels in the Confedrate [sic] States.
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Thomas Merton: Social Critic
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Thomas Merton: Social Critic organizes and critically analyzes the social thought of the Cistercian monk who has become an internationally known symbol of the spiritual element in man. The author evaluated all of Merton’s writings, published and unpublished, then discussed his interpretations with Merton personally. The result is a perceptive relation of Merton’s social thought to its genesis in his own life experiences and contemplation, a faithful rendering of Merton’s thought on the problems of our time.
Merton, the author makes clear, called for a spiritual, social, and religious union. It was a poetic and sometimes unimplemented solution to alienation and division, a valid and authentic, if at times limited, response to the contemporary chaos. This study will be greeted by a strong reaction from Mertonians everywhere.https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/history_book/1016/thumbnail.jp
Thomas Merton and the Monastic Vision
No full textAuthor: Cunningham, Lawrence S. Title: Thomas Merton and the monastic vision xii. Publisher: Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999. Series: Library of religious biography
Heretic Blood: The Spiritual Geography of Thomas Merton
No full textMerton\u27s famous autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain captured the imagination of a generation, selling more than 600,000 copies in its first year. As a monk he promised to remain celibate, yet he found himself passionately in love with a nurse he met while in hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. Thirty years after his death, there is a huge resurgence of interest in the life and work of Thomas Merton -- monk, poet, critic, rebel, sage. In this book, Michael Higgins re-examines that life and work from a unique point of view. It is the first to use recently released diary entries and correspondence by Merton. Comparing Merton to Merton\u27s intellectual and spiritual hero, William Blake, and using Blake\u27s own terms, the author comes to startling conclusions about the emotional and intellectual passions that drove Merton.
Contents: The pilgrim -- Tharmas: the rebel -- Urizen: the marginal critic -- Luvah: the lover -- Urthona: the wise one
Thomas Merton an introduction to his life, teachings, and practices
No full text"An introduction to the powerful legacy of Thomas Merton, his life, teachings, and practices Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk and one of the most influential spiritual figures of the 20th century. His writings and thoughts have influenced generations and his legacy of interfaith understanding and social justice endures to this day. Merton was a prolific writer, best known for his bestselling autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain along with his numerous other works on contemplation, monastic life, poetry, and social issues. Thomas Merton: His Life, Teachings, and Practices offers an exploration of Merton as a monk, as a writer, and as a man. Author Jon M. Sweeney delves into Merton's life and ideas with an appreciation for his work and a deep understanding of the spiritual depth that it contains. Thomas Merton offers a unique view of Merton, braiding together his thoughts and practices with the reality of his life to create a full portrait of this pivotal figure. The Merton revealed in its pages is a source of inspiration and insight for those wrestling with questions of faith and spirituality. At its core, the book is about the search for wholeness-a search Merton undertook himself throughout his lifetime and one readers can also embark on as they draw inspiration and guidance from his life"-
Thomas Merton\u27s Gethsemani: Landscapes of Paradise
No full textFor twenty-seven years, renowned and beloved monk Thomas Merton (1915-1968) belonged to Our Lady of Gethsemani, a Trappist monastery established in 1848 amid the hills and valleys near Bardstown, Kentucky. In Thomas Merton\u27s Gethsemani, dramatic black-and-white photographs by Harry L. Hinkle and artful text by Merton scholar Monica Weis converge in a unique experience for lovers of Merton.
Hinkle was allowed unprecedented access to many areas inside the monastery and on its grounds that are generally restricted. His photographs invite the reader to experience the various knobs, lakes, woods, and hermitages Merton sought out for times of solitude and contemplation and for reading and writing. These unique images, each accompanied by a passage from Merton\u27s writings, evoke personal reflection and a deeper understanding of how and why Merton came to recognize himself as a part of his Kentucky landscape.
Woven throughout the book, Weis\u27s text explores Merton\u27s fascination with nature not only at Gethsemani, but during his early childhood, throughout his spiritual conversion to Roman Catholicism, and while a member of the Trappist community. She examines how Merton\u27s lifelong interaction with nature subtly revealed and informed his profound spiritual experiences and his writing about contemplation. Thomas Merton\u27s Gethsemani replicates Merton\u27s path on his solitary hikes in the woods and conveys the wonder of the landscapes that inspired him.
Harry L. Hinkle is a fine art photographer in Lexington, Kentucky.
Monica Weis, SSJ, a Sister of St. Joseph, is professor of English at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York.
This handsome book combines words and photographs that every Merton admirer will appreciate. . . . Hinkle\u27s roaming camera preserves the essence of Gethsemani —Booklist
Will live beyond books that have treated Mertons poetry, religious commentary and social criticism in a vacuum. It brings together in one volume the images that inspired the words and the words drawn from the images. —Bowling Green (KY) Daily News
Both the casual visitor to Gethsemani and the Merton scholar will find this book a valuable addition to their library. —Catholic Telegraph
Hinkle\u27s sublime artwork is impressive and inspiring. . . . Weis has produced the text which artfully conveys how Merton\u27s lifelong interaction with nature revealed and inspired his spiritual experiences, his contemplations, and writings. —Chevy Chaser/Southsider
Combines some of Merton\u27s photographs and writings with Hinkle\u27s dramatic black and white photographs and the narrative of three gifted writers to convey the contemplative setting that was Merton\u27s home for twenty-seven years. —Contemplation & Action
This beautify volume documents Merton\u27s environment, both monastic and natural. . . .Those interested in American nature writing, art photography, spirituality, and the influence of place upon personal development will welcome this beautifully produced, insightfully written, and contemplative volume. —ISLE
Hinkle\u27s stunning photographs, and the text which accompanies them, allow us to see Merton\u27s monastic world with that fresh eye which Thomas Merton himself insisted was the gift of contemplation. —Lawrence S. Cunningham, University of Notre Dame
In this life, on this earth, Gethsemani was Merton\u27s paradise. Hinkle and Weis artfully show how Merton learned and grew spiritually in this paradise, and, by implication, how others might do so, too. —Lexington Herald-Leader
Lovingly recreates the Trappist monastery where Merton lived for 27 years. —Louisville Courier-Journal
An evocative book of photographs memorably wed with a remarkable essay. —Merton Seasonal
Harry Hinkle\u27s superb photographs do for \u27Merton Country\u27 what Herbert Gleason did many years ago for Thoreau-provide a vivid record of the landscapes and natural phenomena that inspired the author-and Monica Weis\u27 lucid tracing of both the chronological breadth and spiritual depth of Merton\u27s reflections on his environment reveal why and how the natural world served Merton as a revelation of the Creator. —Patrick F. O\u27Connell, coeditor of The Thomas Merton Encyclopedia
An artful combination of lovely photographs by Harry L. Hinkle, illuminated by Merton\u27s own words, and an insightful essay by Monica Weis help the reader experience Merton\u27s spiritual interaction with his physical environment. —Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
A fine contribution not only to art photography, but to Merton scholarship and will be welcomed by those unlikely to visit Merton\u27s Gethsemani and those who know it well. —Spiritualityhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_history_of_religion/1005/thumbnail.jp
69727: From Edwardian Merton to the Western Front 1906-1918
No full textA talk by Professor Anthony Fletcher (Merton 1959), Emeritus Professor of English Social History at the University of London, and author of 'Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front'. </p
Forecasting Default with the Merton Distance to Default Model
No full textWe examine the accuracy and contribution of the Merton distance to default (DD) model, which is based on Merton's (1974) bond pricing model. We compare the model to a "naïve" alternative, which uses the functional form suggested by the Merton model but does not solve the model for an implied probability of default. We find that the naïve predictor performs slightly better in hazard models and in out-of-sample forecasts than both the Merton DD model and a reduced-form model that uses the same inputs. Several other forecasting variables are also important predictors, and fitted values from an expanded hazard model outperform Merton DD default probabilities out of sample. Implied default probabilities from credit default swaps and corporate bond yield spreads are only weakly correlated with Merton DD probabilities after adjusting for agency ratings and bond characteristics. We conclude that while the Merton DD model does not produce a sufficient statistic for the probability of default, its functional form is useful for forecasting defaults. The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Society for Financial Studies. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected], Oxford University Press.
Mística e Literatura no percurso contemplativo de Thomas Merton
No full textResumo: O presente texto estabelece paralelos possíveis entre a mística e a literatura, a experiência religiosa e a experiência estética, a partir do percurso contemplativo do monge trapista Thomas Merton. Poeta, ensaísta, autor de uma vasta obra sobre temas religiosos, expressa de forma paradigmática as possibilidades e também as tensões entre o religioso e o estético, a religião e a arte. Na dinâmica da palavra e do silêncio, emergem temas centrais da tradição mística cristã.Abstract: The present text establishes possible parallels between mysticism and literature, religious experience and aesthetic experience, from the contemplative course of the Trappist monk Thomas Merton. Poet, essayist, author of a vast work on religious themes, expresses in a paradigmatic way the possibilities and also the tensions between the religious and the aesthetic, religion and art. In the dynamics of word and silence, central themes of the Christian mystical tradition emerge.Keywords: Literature; Mystic; Thomas Merton; Poetry; Contemplatio
Merton and medical sociology
No full textThe article is about the main contributions of the North-American sociologist Robert King Merton (1910-2003), particularly those related to the field of medical sociology. Merton was first to conduct research on medical education, and the working team he formed was fundamental for the introduction of social thought in the medicine field (Patrícia Kendall, Renée Fox, Samuel Bloom and others). Of particular importance are Merton's vocation for sociology and the unique trajectory of his research, which was marked by studies on subjects that were not common in the early XX century, particularly the relationships between science, technology, and society. We provide the most important theoretical ad conceptual contribution brought by the author, as well as the expressions he created and which were soon adopted by researchers, such as 'focused interview', 'Matthew effects', 'Pygmalion effect', 'nonplanned consequences of social actions', 'manifest function', and 'latent function'. The highlight in the field of medical sociology is his work on the socialization process of the student of medicine.Trata das principais contribuições do sociólogo norte-americano Robert King Merton (1910-2003), sobretudo aquelas voltadas para o campo da sociologia médica. Assinala sua contribuição para a implantação de um pensamento social na área da medicina. Destaca sua vocação para a sociologia e o trajeto singular de suas pesquisas, voltadas para temas incomuns no início do século XX, especialmente as relações entre ciência, tecnologia e sociedade. Apresenta a contribuição teórico-conceitual do autor e a cunhagem de conceitos logo adotados pelos pesquisadores. No campo da sociologia médica, ressalta seu trabalho sobre o processo de socialização do estudante de medicina.15917
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