MERTON, Thomas. Selected and edited by William H. Shannon.
The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns.
"If I can only make myself little enough to gain graces to work out my satisfaction, enough to keep me out of hell and make up for everything unpleasant": First edition of The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1985.
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First edition of Shannon's compilation of the selected letters of Thomas Merton. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Charles Skaggs. Jacket photograph by John Howard Griffin.
Evelyn Waugh, at the start of Thomas Merton's monastic career, advised him to "write serious letters" and also urged him to "make an art of it." The Hidden Ground of Love is a rich collection of Merton's letters in a period of his greatest concern about religion's seeming powerlessness against global violence and nuclear war.
The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns.
$40.00
Out of Stock