| Description |
xli, 270 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Rev. ed. of Thomas Merton on peace, originally published in 1971. |
| Contents |
Original child monk: an appreciation, by Gordon C. Zahn. I. PRINCIPLES OF PEACE. Original child bomb -- Peace: Christian duties and perspectives -- The Christian in world crisis: reflections on the moral climate of the 1960s -- Preface to Vietnamese translation of No Man Is An Island -- Peace and protest: a statement -- Peace and revolution: a footnote from Ulysses -- Breakthrough to peace -- Christian ethics and nuclear war -- Christianity and defense in the nuclear age -- Target equals city -- The machine gun in the fallout shelter -- Peace: a religious responsibility -- Passitivity and abuse of authority -- An enemy of the state -- A martyr for peace and unity -- The answer of Minerva -- Auschwitz: a family camp -- A devout meditation in memory of Adolf Eichmann. II. THE NONVIOLENT ALTERNATIVE. Danish nonviolent resistance to Hitler -- Man is a gorilla with a gun -- Saint Maximus the confessor on nonviolence -- A tribute to Gandhi -- Faith and violence -- One: Toward a theology of resistance -- Two: Vietnam: an overwhelming atrocity -- Three: From nonviolence to black power -- Four: Violence and the death of God: or God as unknown soldier -- Blessed are the meek: the Christian roots of nonviolence -- Christian action in world crisis -- Note on civil disobedience and nonviolent revolution -- Note for Ave Maria -- War and the crisis of language -- Ishi: a meditation. III. INCIDENTAL WRITINGS. In acceptance of the Pax medal, 1963 -- Retreat, November, 1964: spiritual roots of protest -- Chant to be used in processions around a site with furnaces -- Nhat Hanh is my brother - Notes for a statement on aid to civilian war -- Victims in Vietnam. |
| Subject |
Peace.
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Nonviolence.
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Christianity and international relations.
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| Added Author |
Zahn, Gordon C. (Gordon Charles), 1918-2007.
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| ISBN |
0374223122 |
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9780374223120 |
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