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Title: Faith and Violence: Christian Teaching and Christian Practice by Thomas Merton ISBN: 0-268-00094-8 Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr Pub. Date: December, 1968 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00

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Summary: An essential testament by a 20th century prophetic voice
Comment: "Faith and Violence: Christian Teaching and Christian Practice" is an excellent collection of essays by Thomas Merton. The essays in this book reflect a turbulent era: the late 1960s (Merton's preface is dated 1967).

Merton has a progressive, open-minded Christian vision. He writes about nonviolence, the Vietnam War, the Black Power movement, and "Death-of-God" theology. Interesting specific pieces include articles on the prison meditations of Jesuit Alfred Delp (who was persecuted by the Nazis), on Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh ("my brother"), and on the "Autobiography of Malcolm X" ("a book of decisive importance"). Particularly powerful is his critique of "American Christian rightism," which, he writes, is "a mystique of violence, of apocalyptic threats, of hatred, and of judgment" (in "Religion and Race in the United States").

This is a book that every Christian (and many of other belief systems) should read. Merton is an excellent writer, and his ideas remain compelling.

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