| Description |
vii, 338 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
PART ONE: The Year of the Cold War Letters -- October 1961-October 1962 -- The Root of War is Fear -- The Shelter Ethic -- Target Equals City -- Nuclear War and Christian Responsibility -- Red or Dead: The Anatomy of a Cliché -- Testament to Peace: Father Metzger's Thoughts About the Duty of the Christian -- Christian Ethics and Nuclear War -- Religion and the Bomb -- Christian Action in World Crisis -- Breakthrough to Peace I: Introduction -- Breakthrough to Peace II: A Religious Responsibility -- PART TWO: Following the Year of the Cold War Letters -- 1963 -- The Christian Failure: A Review -- The Prison Meditations of Father Delp: Introduction -- Danish Non-Violent Resistance to Hitler -- The Black Revolution: Letters to a White Liberal -- The Legend of Tucket Caliban -- 1964 -- A Devout Meditation in Memory of Adolf Eichmann -- Gandhi: The Gentle Revolutionary -- 1965 -- From Non-Violence to Black Power -- Religion and Race in the United States -- The Answer of Minerva: Pacifism and Resistance in Simone Weil -- An Enemy of the State -- St. Maximus the Confessor of Non-Violence -- 1966 -- Blessed Are the Meek: The Christian Roots of Non-Violence -- Nhat Hanh Is My Brother -- 1967 -- Ishi: A Meditation -- The Meaning of Malcolm X -- Auschwitz: A Family Camp -- The Hot Summer of Sixty-Seven -- 1968 -- War and the Crisis of Language -- The Vietnam War: An Overwhelming Atrocity -- Note for Ave Maria -- ("Non-Violence Does Not ... Cannot ... Mean Passivity") -- Appendix: Merton's Prayer for Peace. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Subject |
Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968.
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Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Biography.
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Peace -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
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Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
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Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
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War and peace.
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United States -- Race relations.
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| Added Author |
Shannon, William H. (William Henry), 1917-2012
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| ISBN |
0824514947 |
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