Compassionate Fire: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Catherine de Hueck Doherty

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ISBN 10: 1594712166 / ISBN 13: 9781594712166

Published by Ave Maria Press, 2009

About this Item

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Compassionate Fire: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Catherine de Hueck Doherty
• Publisher: Ave Maria Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594712166
• ISBN 13: 9781594712166
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Like New
• Weight: 160 grams

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Synopsis

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 Doherty's previously unpublished letters are now brought together with those of Merton.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