Focus on Truth - by Patrick W Collins (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"An uncensored view of the life and thoughts of Thomas Merton seen through his correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The published writings of the Trappist monk Thomas Merton were always censored from two sources during his lifetime. First, by Merton himself, as he certainly didn't write everything down or share all of what he included in his drafts. He selected carefully what he considered appropriate for publication. Second, Thomas Merton was extensively censored by his religious superiors. They regularly judged that things Merton chose to write should not be made available in print. This was not infrequently a source of great frustration to Merton.</p><p><br></p><p>In this book, Fr. Patrick W. Collins presents an uncensored view of the life and thoughts of Thomas Merton by plumbing his correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues over the years. Merton's personal and professional correspondence was previously published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. In this volume, Collins extracts and organizes from these sources many of the significant subjects about which Merton wrote and presents each topic chronologically. In this way, readers can easily follow the development of Merton's thoughts, feelings, intuitions, and impressions over the years on a variety of topics of concern to him.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Now, decades after the publication of five lengthy volumes of Thomas Merton's selected letters, <i>A Focus on Truth: Thomas Merton's Uncensored Mind</i> reminds us of the wonderful, simple, direct, insightful, and frequently prophetic way Merton addressed a wide myriad of issues, along with the timelessness of his uncensored wisdom." <br><b>Paul M. Pearson, Director, Thomas Merton Center, Bellarmine University</b><br><br>"This book is a necessary addition to the library of any Merton scholar, amateur and professional alike." <br><b><i>Catholic Books Review</i></b> <br><br><br>"The chronological arrangement is truly one of the strengths of the book. With each selection, Thomas Merton is revealed in greater depth as well as the vicissitudes of the unique time period, the early to mid-twentieth century, which encompassed his life." <br><i><b>The Catholic Post</b></i> <br><br>
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