Your Heart Is My Hermitage.

Your Heart Is My Hermitage.

Conference papers from the First General Meeting of the Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland held at La Sainte Union College, Southampton from 17th - 19th May, 1996.

A limited subscription edition of the Southampton conference papers was published by the TMS. Edited by Danny Sullivan and Ian Thomson this 184 page paperback contained all the papers delivered at the First General Meeting of the TMS.

The closing date for ordering copies has now passed and all extra copies have been sold. For those who may be interested the collection included the following papers and highlighted titles are links to full text editions of the papers:

• Remembering Merton: A round table discussion between a few of Merton's friends:
  Tommie O'Callaghan, Donald Allchin, Jim Forest and John Wu, Jr. - chaired by David Scott.
• Celebrating Thomas Merton by Canon A.M. Allchin.
• Inclusive and Exclusive Mysticism in Thomas Merton by Melvyn Matthews.
• Escape the World or Change the World: Toward a Feminist Theology of Contemplation by Mary Grey.
• Question and Revelation: Merton's Recovery of the Ground of Birth by Robert E. Daggy.
• A Heart that Knows God: Merton and Sufism by Erlinda Paguio.
• Thomas Merton, The Bible, Jewish Mysticism and Martin Buber by Marie Goldstein.
• The Zen in Thomas Merton by John Wu, Jr.
• Autonomy and Surrender, Solitude and Intimacy: A Belated Response to Walter E. Conn by Gary P. Hall.
• Brother Silence, Sister Word: Merton's Conversion and Conversation in Solitude and Society by Fernando Beltran Llavador.
• The Hospitable Hermitage: Where the Hearts of God, Self, Other and World Meet by Richard Fournier.
• Thomas Merton: The Earliest Stories by Paul M. Pearson.
• Reading Dante's Commedia in Merton's Seven Storey Mountain by Sheila and Christian Hempstead.
• Thomas Merton and Robert Lax: A Friendship in Letters by Arthur W. Biddle.
• Thomas Merton and Racism: 'Letters to a White Liberal' Reconsidered by George A. Kilcourse.
• Thomas Merton and James Joyce by Christopher Nugent.
• The Contemplative as Teacher: Learning from Thomas Merton by Thomas del Prete.
• A Sunday Homily by Jim Forest.
• A Final Blessing by The Venerable Ajahn Sobhano.

How To Order Your Copy:

This was a limited subscription edition of the Southampton Conference Papers and the closing date for orders was 31st October 1996.
The committee printed some extra copies but I am afraid they have all been sold.