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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Blessed Are the Meek: The Roots of Christian Nonviolence / Merton, Thomas ; Corita M ; Baez J., 1967

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Identifier: CC-30782-32228
Scope and Contents

The cover by Sister Mary Corita reprints a colored rubberstamped text of the title and subtitle. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[Books by Thomas Merton] / Merton, Thomas., 1969

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Identifier: CC-30793-32239
Scope and Contents

This posthumous list of May 1969 lists Merton's publications and indicates that even at this date Monks Pound was out of print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Marxist Theory and Monastic Theoria / Merton, Thomas., 1968

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Identifier: CC-30792-32238
Scope and Contents

This is a transcript of a talk dealing with Marxism and Buddhism on the day Merton met his death as a result of an auto accident. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

My Argument with the Gestapo: A Macaronic Journal / Merton, Thomas., 1969

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Identifier: CC-35668-37418
Scope and Contents

This is Merton's only premonastic prose work, a novel about his views on peace and war, written before he entered a Trappist monastery. There is a dreamlike or nightmarish quality to the story, heightened by the use of a wierd composite language, a mixture of English and several languages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969