The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns
For For readers who want Merton in his correspondence, often freer than his books; long selections best read by theme.
The Hidden Ground of Love is one of the five volumes of Merton's selected letters published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1985-1994, volume 1 of the series, selected and edited by William H. Shannon and published in 1985. It concentrates on the last decade of his life, when he was most concerned about religion's apparent powerlessness against global violence and nuclear war, and includes a third of his privately circulated "Cold War Letters" of 1961-1962, written after his superiors ordered him to stop publishing on war and peace; it opens with early letters to Catherine de Hueck Doherty. It runs to 669 pages.
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