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10-11-2007, 06:30 PM
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Can anyone tell me anything about Thomas Merton? Also I would like to know if he wrote any books and what are there titles?
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Thomas Merton was an American Trappist monk.
He has written a few titles. The only one I've read is "No Man is an Island".
I enjoyed it but beware of it's Romanist slant. It was, believe it or not, the book that started me down the road to a reformed view of the faith.
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Thomas Merton said that he became a Buddhist so that he could become a better Christian. That should send off some warning bells, I think.
Ray Yungen's book  A Time of Departing is a good book dealing with Merton and the contemplative spirituality movement.
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His most famous book is The Seven Storey Mountain, first published in the late 1940s, I think. It's about unsatisfied-college-guy-goes-Cathollic.
Merton (1915-1968) died while taking a bath. A small electric fan near his tub had a frayed cord, which got wet and electrocuted him.
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I read Merton a little during my Taizé days - a long time ago. 
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