| Description |
vii, 338 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Root of War is Fear -- 2. The Shelter Ethic -- 3. Target Equals City -- 4. Nuclear War and Christian Responsibility -- 5. Red or Dead: The Anatomy of a Cliche -- 6. Testament to Peace: Father Metzger's Thoughts About the Duty of the Christian -- 7. Christian Ethics and Nuclear War -- 8. Religion and the Bomb -- 9. Christian Action in World Crisis -- 10. Breakthrough to Peace I: Introduction -- 11. Breakthrough to Peace II: Peace: A Religious Responsibility -- 12. The Christian Failure: A Review -- 13. The Prison Meditations of Father Delp: Introduction -- 14. Danish Non-Violent Resistance to Hitler -- 15. The Black Revolution: Letters to a White Liberal -- 16. The Legend of Tucker Caliban -- 17. A Devout Meditation in Memory of Adolf Eichmann -- 18. Gandhi: The Gentle Revolutionary -- 19. From Non-Violence to Black Power -- 20. Religion and Race in the United States -- 21. The Answer of Minerva: Pacifism and Resistance in Simone Weil -- 22. An Enemy of the State |
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23. St. Maximus the Confessor on Non-Violence -- 24. Blessed Are the Meek: The Christian Roots of Non-Violence -- 25. Nhat Hanh Is My Brother -- 26. Ishi: A Meditation -- 27. The Meaning of Malcolm X -- 28. Auschwitz: A Family Camp -- 29. The Hot Summer of Sixty-Seven -- 30. War and the Crisis of Language -- 31. The Vietnam War: An Overwhelming Atrocity -- 32. Note for Ave Maria ("Non-Violence Does Not ... Cannot ... Mean Passivity") -- Appendix: Merton's Prayer for Peace |
| Analysis |
Peace - Religious aspects |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968.
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Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Biography.
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Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
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Peace -- 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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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Shannon, William H. (William Henry), 1917-2012.
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| LC no. |
94048888 |
| ISBN |
0824514947 |
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