Dancing in the Water of Life

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by Thomas Merton


  Buchanan, Brother Edmund

  Buddhist monks suicides

  Bultmann, Rudolf Karl

  Burkhard [Neunheuser], Dom

  Burns, Tom

  Burnt-Out Case, A (Greene)

  Burton [Stone], Naomi

  Byzantine ikon

  Calati, Dom [Benedetto]

  Callahan, Daniel

  Calvin, John

  Campbell, Will

  Cape Kennedy

  “Captives, The” (Merton)

  Cardenal, Ernesto

  Carey, Graham

  Caroline Moral Theology

  Carroll, Father Xavier

  Cataclysm

  Catharism

  Catherine of Siena

  Catholic Church: Christian in; cor-; ruption within; crusades/battlements of; inauthenticity within; Jewish issue and; “Natural Law” of; Nazism and; as the one true church; Pius XII legacy to; Pope Paul’s Encyclical on; “power” of; power politics within; as redeemed community; St. Augustine legacy to; Vatican II and

  Catholic faith

  Catholic Peace Fellowship

  Catholic Worker

  “Causes,”

  Caussade, Jean Pierre de

  Celtic Church in Scotland

  Celtic monasticism

  Chadwick, Nora K.

  Chadwick, William Owen

  Chamberlain, Neville

  Chanting

  Chardin, Teilhard de

  Charity

  Charles [English], Father

  Charles, Father (of Georgia)

  Chastity

  Child of God

  China

  “Chinese princess” dream

  Choir observances satire

  Chouraqui, Andrae

  Christian: brotherhood of; in the; Church; concern for godless man; doctrine of monastic mysticism; optimism of; solitude of a; strength of; world outlook of

  Christian civilization

  Christian community; See also Monastic life

  Christianity: contrast between Islam and; Marxist; Nietzsche and; subordination abolished by

  Christian perfection doctrine

  Christmas (1963)

  Christmas (1964)

  Christmas (1965)

  Christ. See Jesus Christ

  Chrysogonus [Waddell], Father

  Chrysostom, Brother

  Chuang Tzu

  Chuang Tzu (Merton)

  Church bombings (1963)

  Church. See Catholic Church

  Cistercian Order

  Civil rights

  Civil rights demonstrations (Louisville, 1965)

  Civil rights demonstration (Washington, 1963)

  Civil rights workers murder

  Class consciousness (France)

  Claudel, Paul

  Clement the Cellarer, Brother

  Climate of Monastic Prayer (Merton)

  Cocteau, Jean

  Coffield, Father

  Cold War and Black Revolution [Seeds of Destruction] (Merton)

  Collectanea magazine

  Collectio Monastica (Ethiopian manuscripts)

  Collectivization

  Colleen, Sister

  Colman, Brother

  Columban, Dom

  Columba, St.

  Comet

  Come to the Mountain (Merton)

  Communism

  Community; See also Solitude Congo

  Congo hostages (1964)

  Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (Merton)

  Connally, Ron

  Conscientious objection

  Consciousness

  Consecration of the desert

  Conservatism

  Constitution on the Church

  Constitution on Revelation

  Contemplation

  “Contemplation and Ecumenism” (Merton)

  Contemporary political man

  Contestation

  Controversy of Poets (Leary and Kelly)

  Conversatio morum vow

  Cooper, Senator

  Corpus Christi,

  Correspondence

  Cortazar, Julio

  Cortes, Alfonso

  Cosmocratores [worldly powers] doctrine

  “Council and Religious Life” (Merton)

  Council. See National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB)

  Creativity

  Crowns [the tonsure]

  Cruz, Antonio

  Cuna Indians

  Cur Deus Homo? (St. Anselm)

  Cushing, Cardinal Charles

  Czechoslovakia

  Damasus [Winzen], Dom

  Damian, Dom

  Damian, Peter

  Daniélou, Jean

  Day, Dorothy

  Day of Recollection (Aug. 1963)

  Day of Recollection (Sept. 1963)

  “Day of a Stranger” (Merton)

  Death: of Christ, 28; freedom from; meditations on; obedience unto; reality of,; reflections on; relations with sin and works; solitude and

  Debere esse [ought to be]

  De Casu Diaboli (St. Anselm)

  Declaration on Ecumenism

  De Conversione

  Decree on the Church and the World

  Deer (wounded)

  Demon of literature

  Denis, Brother (Phillips)

  Deputy, The (Hochhuth)

  De Resurrectione (Tertullian)

  Dermatitis (Merton’s)

  Descartes

  Desert Fathers

  Destiny

  Destiny of Fire (Oldenbourg)

  Destruction

  De Veritate (St. Anselm)

  Diekmann, Father Godfrey

  Diem (Vietnam leader)

  Discours de Suede (Camus)

  Documentary criticism

  Doherty, Francis

  Dominican Order

  Dominic, Brother

  Douglass, Jim

  Douglass, Sally

  Draft card burnings

  Dreams (Merton’s)

  DuBay, Father [William]

  Du Bois, W. E. B.

  Duino Elegies

  Dumoulin, Father [Heinrich]

  Dunne, Mary Frances

  Each in His Darkness (Greene)

  Easter Sunday (1965)

  East Germany,

  Ecclesiam suam (Pope Paul)

  Ecstasy

  Ecuadorian Virgin

  Ecumenical meeting

  Edelin’s Hollow

  Edelin’s Valley

  Egeria (Etheria, “Sylvia”)

  Egyptian life

  Election day (1964)

  Ellul, Jacques

  El Paz y la Serpiento (Urtecho)

  Emblems of a Season of Fury (Merton)

  Epiphany (1964)

  Episcopal churches

  Erasmus

  Erigena (Sartre)

  “Escalation” (Kahn)

  Eschatology: contemplation and; as dimension of calling; everyday life; Holy Spirit and; Merton’s view of; realized

  Eshelman, Clayton

  Essays (Bultmann)

  Ethic of ambiguity

  Eudes [Bamberger], Father [John]

  European Spirit, The

  Eusebius

  Evers, Medgar

  Everything That Rises Must Converge (O’Connor)

  Evil: Barth’s concept of; and good; within solitude; Greene on; literature and; Marxist history on; the will bent to

  Existentialism; See also Sartre, Jean-Paul

  Exodus

  Exterior action

  Ezekiel

  Ezekiel 22:30

  Ezekiel

  Faith: as eschatological, 182; gift of Catholic; in God; Merton’s problem with; reification of; trust in God principle of

  Fallen society mentality

  Fallibility

  Falsity

  Father Prior. See Father [Burns] Flavian

  Feast of Dedication (1965)

  Feast of the Holy Rosary (1963)

  Feast of the Purification (1964)

  Feast of the Sacred Heart (1965)
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br />   Feast of St. Joseph (1964)

  Feast of St. Louis of France (1963)

  Feast of St. Robert (1964)

  Feast of St. Thomas (1963)

  Fillmore, Art

  Finbarr, Brother

  First Sunday of Advent (1963)

  Flavian, Father [Burns]

  Flight from Woman (Stern)

  Floersh, Archbishop John A.

  Fonsagrives, Dr.

  Ford, Jack [John H.]

  Forest, Jim

  FOR (Fellowship of Reconciliation)

  FOR [Fellowship of Reconciliation] retreat

  Fort Knox

  Foucauld, Michel

  Foundation (Alaska)

  Four Quartets

  Fourth Sunday of Advent (1963)

  France: class consciousness in; during W.W. II

  Franciscana, Sister

  Francis Xavier, St.

  Frankl, Victor

  Frederic [Dunne], Dom

  Freedom: determination vs.; existen-; tial view of; from death; as a gift,; God’s love and; humor and; man’s fear of; need for genuine interior; through God’s Spirit

  Free will of Christ

  French nuclear deterrent

  French Phenomenology

  French students

  Friends/friendship

  Friol, Roberto

  From Bossuet to Newman (Chadwick)

  Fulfillment

  Future vision

  Gabriel, Dom

  Game theory of nuclear war

  Gandhi

  Gandhi on Non-Violence (Merton)

  Gannon, Leo

  García Marruz, Fina

  Gaulle, General de

  Geist, Peter

  Gemini

  Gemini

  General Chapter

  Gerard, Brother

  German language

  Gethsemani: Merton’s 23rd arrival anniversary at; Merton’s lack of; identification with; Merton’s memories of; as place for hermitage experiment; problems of life at; spiritual depth of; the trouble and joke of

  Gill, Bobby

  Gill, Eric

  Gillet, Dom Ignace

  Ginsberg, Alan (Allen)

  Gironella, José Maria

  Giroux, Bob

  God: bearer of wrath of; boasting; before; child of; confidence in; dark face of; faithfulness of; faith in; freedom through; honoring; judgments of; judgment on U.S. by; justice and; mercy of; nature of power of; obedience to; perfect love of; real belief in; silence and voice of; as ultimate “I,”; union with; will of; world reconciled to; See also Jesus Christ

  God is dead theology

  God’s love: freedom and; perfect nature of

  Göerres, Ida

  Göettmann, Abbé [Alphonse]

  Golden Age of Zen, The (Wu)

  Goldwater, Barry

  Gombrowicz, Witold

  Good Friday (1964)

  Good Friday (1965)

  Good Work (Merton)

  Goss-Mayr, Hildegard

  Grace

  Graham, Dom Aelred

  Gran, Bishop John

  Green Child (Read)

  Greene, Graham

  Green, Julien

  Gregorian psalmody

  Gregorio, Dom

  Griffin, John Howard

  Griffiths, Dom Bede

  Grinberg, Miguel

  Guardini, Romano

  Guggenheim Museum

  Gulf of Tonkin

  Gullick, Etta

  Hakuin’s dream

  Hammer, Carolyn

  Hammer, Victor

  Hannon, Archbishop

  Happiness

  Häring, Father Bernard

  Harlem

  Harlem riots (1964)

  Harmony of Worlds

  Harris, John

  Hart, Patrick (Brother Simon)

  Heavenliness

  Hebrews XI

  Heidbrink, John

  Heidegger, Martin

  Hering, Jean

  The hermitage: Abbot General’s support of; Dom James’s support for; formation of American; Merton permitted to sleep in; Merton’s joy in; “ought to be” daily schedule at,; packing to move into; patronal feast of; peace of; plans for; possible site for; prayer experience in; renunciation through; spends the day at; as unjustified

  Hermit groups

  “Hermit problem,”

  Herrlichkeit (Von Balthasar)

  Heschel, Abraham

  Hibakusha

  Hildelith, Dame (Cumming)

  Hindemith, Paul

  Hindu and Muslim Mysticism (Zaehner)

  Hinson, Glenn

  Hiromu Morishita

  Hiroshima

  History

  Hitler, Adolph

  Hochhuth, Rolf

  “Holiness of matter,”

  Hollisey, Ruth

  Holloway, Jim

  Holy Ghost: believing in; confirming vocation by the; eschatology and; freedom through; loss of the

  Holy Saturday (1964)

  Holy Saturday (1965)

  Holy Thursday (1964)

  Holy Week (1965)

  “Honest to God” (Merton)

  “Honest to God” question

  Honesty in the Church (Callahan)

  Horia, Vintila

  Hospitals

  Hubbell, Rev. Wilham K.

  Hugh, Dom

  Humanistic philosophy

  Humor

  Husserl, Edmund

  Ides of March (Wilder)

  Idolatry

  Ignace [Gillet], Dom

  Illtud [Evans], Father

  Individualism

  Inner Experience, The (Merton)

  Inner Life of Dame Gertrude (Baker)

  In Praise of Philosophy (Merleau-Ponty)

  Interior prayer

  Introduction aux devoirs des coeurs (trans. Chouraqui)

  Invisible powers

  Ionesco, Eugène

  Irenaeus

  Iroquois

  Isaac of Stella

  Islam

  Israel

  Italian Cathedrals

  Jacobs, Lou

  Jägerstätter commentaries

  James [Fox], Dom: blocks Merton from leaving the Order; on “contact; with the world,”; on the “crown” vote; Father Peter and; Gethsemani controlled by; on hermitage plan; inability to deal with monastery changes; Merton on character of; Merton’s conflict with; Merton’s distrust of; opposes sending students to Monte Cistello; phobia against Merton’s traveling; possible election as Abbot General; praises conformism; writes letter on change in habits

  Japanese Cult of Tranquillity, The (Von Durkheim)

  Jaspers, Karl

  Jenkins, Martha Baldwin (Merton’s grandmother)

  Jerome, Brother

  Jesus Christ: angels of nations and; free will of, 28; joy in the risen; life centered around; looking attentively at; mercy and justice of; refusal to live by; resurrection of; suffering of; transformation through; true imitation of; as victor; See also God

  Jewish issue

  Jewish people

  Jewish problem

  Joachim, Brother

  Job

  John of the Cross, Father [Wasserman]

  John of the Cross [Williams], Brother

  Johnson, Lyndon

  John XXIII, Pope

  José the Cuban

  Joy

  Joy in the Masses

  Jubilee year (Merton’s)

  Judgment: of God; of God on U.S.; understanding the Last

  Justice

  Justification (Merton’s)

  Justitia (justice)

  Kaderli, Elizabeth Land

  Kahn, Hermann

  Kashmir war

  Kennedy, Bobby

  Kennedy, Jacqueline

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kennedy, Joseph

  “Killer-ape” hypothesis,

  King, Martin Luther

  Kinnell, Galway

  Kiplinger Newsletter

  Kirk, David

  Kitaro, Nis
hida

  Klee, Paul

  Knowles, Michael David

  Krushchev, N.

  Kümmel, Werner Georg

  Lady Latinist dream (Merton’s)

  Laporte, Roger

  Last Judgment

  Latin American poets

  Laughlin, James

  Lawrence, Father

  Leakey discoveries

  Leclercq, Dom

  Lent (1964)

  Leo, Brother

  Leonard, Father

  Leopardi: A Study in Solitude (Origo)

  Leopardi, Giacomo

  Le Piéton de l’air (Ionesco)

  L’Etre et le néant (Sartre)

  Letter on the Solitary Life (Guigo)

  Letter writing

  Levi, Peter

  Liber Comfortatorius (Goscelin)

  De Libero Arbitrio (St. Anselm)

  Liberty of conscience

  Life magazine

  Life of St. Anselm, The (ed. by Southern)

  L’Illusion politique (Ellul)

  Literature and Existentialism (Sartre)

  Liturgy: blaming of Jews in; changes; made for (1964); Council’s constitution on; dream on revival of; irritated with “style” of; Merleau-Ponty’s essay on film and; Merton on preforming; new and old; See also Mass

  Loaves and Fishes (Day)

  Lochman, Jan Milic

  Lord of the Flies, The

  Lortz, Joseph

  Louf, Dom André

  Louisville civil rights demonstration (1965)

  Love

  Lowell, Robert

  Luke, Sister

  Luther, Martin

  Mabillon, Jean

  McAdoo, Henry Robert

  McCormick, Msgr. [William J.]

  Machiavelli, N.

  Macmillan contract

  Maharshi, Ramana

  Malcolm X

  Maloney, Bishop

  Mankind: free choice and destiny of; godless; joy in; sarx (flesh) nature of

  Man in the New Testament (Kümmel)

  Mann, Thomas

  Mantero, Manuel

  Mao Tse Tung

  Maritain, Jacques

  Maritain, Raïssa

  Martin de Porres, Brother

  Martinez Rivas, Carlos

  Martyrdom

  Marxist Christianity

  Marxist history

  Mary, Sister

  Mass: joy in the; meditation during; new attitude toward “shape” of,; said for Birmingham victims; See also Liturgy

  Massacre at Montsegur: A History of the Albigensian Crusade (Oldenbourg)

  Massignon, Louis

  Mass-man,

  Mass of St. Alban

  Mass-society

  Matsumoto, Dr.

  Matter and Spirit (Zaehner)

  Mauriac, François

  Maximos of Antioch, Patriarch

  Maximus, St.

  “Meaningful experience,”

  Mediator Dei (Pius XII)

  Meditation: Anselm’s; blessing of quiet; discipline of; experiencing; on the Kennedy assassination; See also Prayer; Solitude

  Meija Sanchez, Ernesto

  Mélanges Benedictus

  Mercy

  Merleau-Ponty, Maurice

  “Merlin and the Deer” (Merton)

 

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