1. 20^th Century Spirituality:  Classic Texts
2. 20^th Century Spirituality:  Studies
3. Thomas Merton:  Writings
4. Thomas Merton:  Biographies & Studies
5. Martin Luther King:  Texts & Studies
6. Spirituality of Liberation:  Texts & Studies
7. Contemporary Spirituality:  A Miscellany of Popular Works

• Frederick Von Hugel, The Mystical Element of Religion: As Studied by Catherine of Genoa and Her Friends, ed. Michael Downey (New York: Crossroad, 1999) paperback, $40. NEW edition of a classic. First published in 1908, this sprawling, diffuse, yet brilliant study was pivotal in sparking the modern study of mysticism.
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship (reprint of 1963 edition: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983) paperback, $12.
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, ed. Eberhard Bethge (reprint: Macmillan, 1997) paperback, $14.
• Jean Danielou, Prayer: the Mission of the Church, Ressourcement: Retrieval and Renewal in Catholic Thought, ed. David L. Schindler (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1996) paperback, $15.
• Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of Dorothy Day, ed. Daniel Berrigan (reprint: Harper San Francisco, 1997) paperback, $15.
• Dorothy Day, Selected Writings, ed. Robert Ellsberg (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1992) paperback, $18.
• Dorothy Day, On Pilgrimage, Ressourcement: Retrieval and Renewal in Catholic Thought (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999) paperback, $16. NEW.
• Charles de Foucauld, Writings, ed. Robert Ellsberg, Modern Spiritual Masters (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1999) paperback, $13.
• Bede Griffiths, Return to the Center (Templegate, 1982) paperback, $12.
• C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (reprint: Touchstone Books, 1996) paperback, $7. This is Lewis’ great apologia to non-believers.
• C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (Harcourt Brace, 1983) paperback, $9.
• Johannes Baptist Metz, Poverty of Spirit, trans. John Drury (New York: Paulist Press, 1998) paperback, $7.
• Jürgen Moltmann, The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ As the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology, trans. John Bowden (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993) paperback, $22.
• Jürgen Moltmann, The Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology , trans. James W. Leitch (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993) paperback, $22.
• Rudolf Otto, The Idea of the Holy: An Inquiry Into the Non-Rational Factor in the Idea of the Divine and Its Relation to the Rational, trans. John W. Harvey, 2^nd ed. (New York: Oxford University, 1958) paperback, $13.
• Karl Rahner, The Practice of Faith: A Handbook of Contemporary Spirituality [Praxis des Glaubens: Geistliches Lesebuch], ed. Karl Lehman (New York: Crossroad, 1992).
• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Writings, ed. Ursula King, Modern Spiritual Masters (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1999) paperback, $13. NEW.
• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Divine Milieu (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1989) paperback, $13.
• Evelyn Underhill, Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness (reprint of 1901 edition: Element, 1999) paperback, $21. A path-breaking turn-of-the-century classic.
• Hans Urs von Balthasar, Mysterium Paschale: The Mystery of Easter, Ressourcement: Retrieval and Renewal in Catholic Thought, trans. Aidan Nichols (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1993).
• Simone Weil, Waiting for God (reprint: San Francisco: Harper Perennial, 1992) paperback, $13.

• Eberhard Bethge, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Biography, ed. Virginia J. Barnett (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999) paperback, $39. NEW.
• John W. DeGruchy, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999) paperback, $20. NEW.
• William V. Dych, Karl Rahner, Outstanding Christian Thinkers Series (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1992) paperback.
• Harvey D. Egan, Karl Rahner: The Mystic of Everyday Life, Spiritual Legacy Series (New York: Crossroad, 1998) paperback, $17.
• Michael Ford, Wounded Prophet: A Portrait of Henri J.M. Nouwen (New York: Doubleday, 1999) paperback, $24. NEW.
• William Henry Griffin, C.S. Lewis, Spirituality for Mere Christians, Spiritual Legacy Series (New York: Crossroad, 1995) paperback, $15.
• Ursula King, Spirit and Fire: The Life and Vision of Teilhard de Chardin (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1996).
• Mark McIntosh, Christology from Within: Spirituality and the Incarnation in Hans Urs Von Balthasar Studies in Spirituality and Theology, 3 (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 1996).
• John J. O'Donnell, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Outstanding Christian Thinkers, (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1992).
• Brigid O’Shea Merriman, Searching for Christ: The Spirituality of Dorothy Day (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994).
• Melissa Raphael, Rudolph Otto and the Concept of Holiness (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
• John Riches, The Analogy of Beauty: The Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1986).

Thomas Merton (d.1968) has been perhaps the most popular spiritual writer of the 20^th century, at least in the English-speaking world. He was also extraordinarily prolific. Here is a sampling of his major works.

• Lawrence S. Cunningham, ed., Thomas Merton, Spiritual Master: the Essential Writings (New York: Paulist Press, 1992) paperback, $15. An excellent anthology of Merton’s spiritual writings. It offers a valuable introduction to enormous range of Merton’s interests and ideas.
• Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain (reprint of 1948 edition: New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978) paperback, $15. Merton’s masterful autobiography became a religious bestseller in 1948. It presented a highly romanticized view of monasticism (and a correspondingly pessimistic view of the secular world), views that Merton would later reject. Still a beautifully written self-portrait.
• Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation (reprint: New York: New Directions, 1974) paperback, $11. Merton’s finest statement of his contemplative spirituality.
• Patrick Hart et al., eds., The Journals of Thomas Merton, 7 vol. (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1991-1999) paperback, $15 per volume. This 7-volume series is a major achievement that sheds important new light on Merton. Kenneth Woodward has remarked that "Merton’s real autobiography is in his personal journals. They reveal an uncaged mind ceaselessly churned by contemporary events and culture." See especially vol. 7: The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey: 1967-1968.
• Thomas Merton, The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton (reprint of 1973 edition: New York: New Directions, 1988) paperback.
• Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (Garden City, NJ: Image, 1968) paperback, $13.
• Thomas Merton, Contemplation in a World of Action, Gethsemani Studies in Psychological and Religious Anthropology, ed. Robert Coles (reprint: Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 1999) paperback, $14.
• Thomas Merton, Mystics and Zen Masters (reprint of 1967 edition: Noonday Press, 1986) paperback, $14.
• Thomas Merton, Zen and the Birds of Appetite (reprint of 1968 edition: New York: New Directions, 1988) paperback, $10. A set of essays that reflect Merton’s late turn to Buddhist spirituality.
• Thomas P. McDonnell, ed., A Thomas Merton Reader, rev. ed. (reprint of 1974 edition: New York: Image / Doubleday, 1996) paperback, $14.

• Michael Mott, The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986) paperback, $20. This is an unusually thorough biography. Mott was Merton’s official biography and had access to his private journals that have just been published. He exposes the rich complexity (and various foibles) of the man.
• Marquita Breit, Thomas Merton: A Comprehensive Bibliography (New York: Garland Publications, 1986).
• Lawrence S. Cunningham, Thomas Merton and the Monastic Vision, Library of Religious Biography (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999) paperback, $16. NEW.
• James Finley, Merton’s Palace of Nowhere: A Search for God Through Awareness of the True Self (reprint: Ave Maria Press, 1980) paperback, $10.
• James H. Forest, Living With Wisdom: a Life of Thomas Merton (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1991) paperback.
• Patrick Hart, ed., Thomas Merton, Monk: A Monastic Tribute, Cistercian Studies 52 (Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1983) paperback, $11.
• Patrick Hart, ed., The Message of Thomas Merton Cistercian Studies 42 (Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1981).
• Patrick Hart, ed., The Monastic Journey of Thomas Merton, Cistercian Studies 133 (Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1977 / 1992) paperback, $13.
• Edward Rice, The Man in the Sycamore Tree: The Good Times and Hard Life of Thomas Merton (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985). Great photos by one of Merton’s college friends.
• William Henry Shannon, Silent Lamp: The Thomas Merton Story (New York: Crossroad, 1992).
• William Henry Shannon, Thomas Merton’s Dark Path, rev. ed. (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1987).

• Martin Luther King, Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr., ed. James M. Washington (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1986) paperback, $23.
• Clayborne Carson, ed., The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., 2 vol. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995) hardcover, $45 per volume.
• Noel Leo Eskine, King Among the Theologians (Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 1994) paperback, $15.
• Richard Lischer, The Preacher King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Word That Moved America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995) paperback, $17.
• Charles Marsh, God’s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997) paperback.

• Gustavo Gutierrez, We Drink from Our Own Wells: The Spiritual Journey of a People, trans. Matthew J. O’Connell (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1984) paperback, $16.
• Gustavo Gutierrez, On Job: God-Talk and the Suffering of the Innocent, trans. Matthew J. O’Connell (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1987) paperback, $15.
• Gustavo Gutierrez, Las Casas: In Search of the Poor Christ, trans. Robert Barr (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993) paperback, $20.
• James B. Nickoloff, ed., Gustavo Gutierrez: Essential Writings, The Making of Modern Theology (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996).
• Jon Sobrino, Spirituality of Liberation: Toward Political Holiness (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1987) hardcover, $40.
• Jon Sobrino, The Principle of Mercy: Taking the Crucified People from the Cross (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1994) paperback, $18.
• Christopher Rowland, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999) paperback, $19. NEW.

• Anthony Bloom, Beginning to Prayer (New York: Paulist Press, 1988) paperback, $7.
• Robert Coles, The Spiritual Life of Children (reprint: New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1991) paperback, $13.
• William Dalrymple, From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East (Henry Holt, 1998) paperback, $18. NEW.
• James W. Fowler, Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning (Reprint of 1981 edition: San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1995) paperback, $16.
• William Johnston, Christian Zen (reprint: New York: Fordham University Press, 1997) paperback, $17.
• Kenneth Leech, Soul Friend: An Invitation to Spiritual Direction (reprint: San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1992) paperback, $15.
• Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life (reprint: Harper Perennial, 1994) paperback, $14.
• Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith (New York: Riverhead Books, 1998) NEW in paperback, $13.
• Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk (New York: Riverhead Books, 1997) paperback, $13.
• Henri J.W. Nouwen, Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life (New York: Image Books, 1986) paperback, $11.
• Henri J.W. Nouwen, Wounded Healer (New York: Image Books, 1979) paperback, $11.
• M. Basil Pennington, Centering Prayer: Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form (New York: Doubleday, 1980) paperback, $10.