Passion for peace
Subtitle: reflections on war and nonviolence
By: Thomas Merton ; edited and with an introduction by William H. Shannon.
Contributors: Shannon, William Henry, 1917-
Edition: Abridged ed.
Publisher: Crossroad Pub. Co.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780824524159
Subjects: Merton, Thomas, -- 1915-1968.; Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Biography.; Peace -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.; Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.; Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.; United States -- Race relations.
Notes: Abridged ed. of: Passion for peace : the social essays, originally published in 1995 by the Crossroad Pub. Co.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The root of war is fear; title: Nuclear war and Christian responsibility; title: Following the year of the Cold War letters; title: Danish nonviolent resistance to Hitler; title: A devout meditation in memory of Adolf Eichmann; title: Gandhi: the gentle revolutionary; title: Blessed are the meek: the Christian roots of nonviolence; title: Nhat Hanh is my brother; title: Ishi: a meditation; title: Auschwitz: a family camp; title: The Vietnam war: an overwhelming atrocity; title: Note for Ave Maria; title: Appendix: Merton's prayer for peace.