CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health articles from January 2009

CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health archives from January 2009

Thomas Merton global prophet.(Editorial)
January 1, 2009... Merton, grounded in the Christian monastic "School of Charity," stands as a prophet for humankind's future. On August 6, 1960 he wrote: "A prophet is one who cuts through great tangled webs of lies." His intense, compassionate vision, akin to...

Commentary.(life and work of Thomas Merton)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Merton's radical mystical insight, a complete trust in "hidden wholeness," reveals an intuition, knowledge, and affirmation of God through embrace of contemplative wisdom. This fundamental insight became Merton's core poem, a unifying sustained...

"The surest home is pointless": a pathless path through Merton's poetic corpus.(Thomas Merton)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2009... Finding one's way through the 1,000-plus pages of the Collected Poems (1) is a daunting prospect for even the most dedicated reader of Thomas Merton. The sheer number of the poems, the obscurity of many of them, as well as their uneven quality,...

"Love for the paradise mystery": Thomas Merton: contemplative ecologist.(Viewpoint essay)
January 1, 2009... "Love for the paradise mystery" (1) is a dominant motif woven through all the writings of Thomas Merton--a gossamer thread of mystical insight and prophetic urgency that fastens together the assemblage of his multi-focused literary legacy. Now,...

Thomas Merton's re-visioning the new world at intercultural borders.(Report)
January 1, 2009... Much has been written about Merton's 1958 illuminative experience in downtown Louisville, when he suddenly experienced himself strongly united to the whole of the human race and rejoiced in the secret beauty of every person's heart. But not...

Thomas Merton's contemplation: rarefied emblem of being human and living in mystery.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2009... Robust contemplation With references to Zen Buddhism, Augustine of Hippo (354-430 C.E) and Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), this examination demonstrates the importance of Thomas Merton's understanding of contemplation which embodies the...

Excerpts from the International Thomas Merton Society General Meeting (2005) and The American benedictine academy convention (2008).
January 1, 2009... [From] Thomas Merton, Monk and Prophet of Peace: The Opening Address at the 2005 International Thomas Merton Society General Meeting (1) ... [F]rom my first contact with Merton's writings, I viewed him as a prophetic voice for our times....

What to listen for: Merton as teacher--a note.(Thomas Merton)
January 1, 2009... Hundreds of hours of tape: a hundred hours commercially released; scores of lectures selected and reviewed, (1) yet we have hardly begun to listen. An aspect of Merton, barely heard, are the voice recordings made from his hundreds of hours of...

Book.('Cassian and the Fathers: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition', 'Pre-Benedictine Monasticism: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 2', and 'An Introduction to Christian Mysticism: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 3')(Book review)
January 1, 2009... Thomas Merton Cassian and the Fathers: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition. Edited with an Introduction by Patrick F. O'Connell. Foreword by Patrick Hart, OCSO. Preface by Columba Stewart, OSB. Monastic Wisdom Series 1 (Kalamazoo,...