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Thomas Merton, Peacemaker: Meditations on Merton, Peacemaking, and the Spiritual Life By John Dear, Orbis, 2014, 208 pp., ISBN 978-1-62698-107-2, $20.00 (paper).
In addition to his decades of public activism, the prophetic and provocative John Dear has maintained a consistent publishing output in his pursuit of a more peaceful world. His latest work consists of twentyseven meditations on Thomas Merton's "wisdom of nonviolence" (x) commemorating the Trappist spiritual master's one hundredth birthday. As Dear writes, "Merton's nonviolent life glorified the God of peace" (xi), and throughout the book he uses Merton's life as a lens to reflect on how we can...