Compassionate Fire: The Letters of Thomas Merton & Catherine De Hueck Doherty
Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Thomas Merton, Robert A. Wild (ed.)
ISBN 10: 1594712166 ISBN 13: 9781594712166
Published by Ave Maria Pr, 2009
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Just after Thomas Merton s death in 1968, Catholic social activist Catherine de Hueck Doherty wrote to Merton s abbot: "In some strange mysterious way I never quite understood, [he] was in part my spiritual son." The friendship originated when Merton worked at Friendship House in Harlem, and this volume of warm, candid correspondence traces nearly three decades of friendship through thirty-one surviving letters fourteen written by Merton, and seventeen by Doherty. Doherty's previously unpublished letters are now brought together with those of Merton. The exchange reveals Merton s development from a young man searching for his place in God s plan, to a monk seeking God through solitude and work for social justice.
Review: "Highly recommended to all seekers of the truth." --Brother Patrick Hart, Abbey of Gethsemani
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Title: Compassionate Fire: The Letters of Thomas ...
Publisher: Ave Maria Pr
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
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