Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Early Life
2. Conversion
3. The Monastic Turn
4. The Seven Storey Mountain
5. New Seeds of Contemplation
6. Merton as Educator
7. Toward a Politics of Being
8. Second Calling
9. Prometheus Reconsidered
10. The Third Position of Integrity
11. The Mystic as Public Intellectual
12. Zen as Negative Dialectics
13. Journey to the East
14. Postmodern Merton?
15. Conclusion
Chronology
Merton's Daily Schedule (circa 1941)
Merton's Daily Schedule in His Hermitage (1966)
A Merton Dictionary
Works Cited in the Merton Dictionary
Notes
Index