Faith and Violence: Christian Teaching and Christian Practice

Year 1968
Type Essay
Genre social ethics
Tradition Catholic
Original language English

For For readers who want his mature writing on war, race and nonviolence; essays of their decade, not a systematic ethics.

Should I read this?

For the general reader: 3 of 5 worth your time
For the researcher: 4 of 5 important
Difficulty: 3 of 5 demanding

Essays of 1965-1968 on nonviolence, Vietnam, race and the Church's teaching on war.

How it proceeds

Philosophic 3 of 5
Scriptural 2 of 5
Experiential 1 of 5
Sociological 5 of 5
Historical 3 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

A collection of essays published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 1968 (290 pages), the year of Merton's death, with the subtitle Christian Teaching and Christian Practice. The essays, written in the mid-1960s, address the theology and practice of nonviolence, the war in Vietnam, racism in America and the gap between the Church's teaching and the conduct of Christians. It belongs with Seeds of Destruction (1964) as his principal books on social questions.

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