The Root of War is Fear: Thomas Merton’s Advice to Peacemakers Bible Part of the Quaker Quicks

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The Root of War is Fear: Thomas Merton’s Advice to Peacemakers Bible Part of the Quaker QuicksHere is one of the best tributes honoring Merton as a contemplative peacemaker, written by someone who is himself a faithful living text on non violence.Jonathan Montaldo Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk who died in 1968, is one of the most influential religious figures of modern times. Yet many readers remain unaware of his deep preoccupation with the theme of peace from his early stance as a conscientious objector to his prophetic writings on