Um dos grandes méritos de Thomas Merton na presente obra está em chamar a atenção para tão rico manancial da vida de oração: o autor mostra como o cristão pode e deve utilizá-lo não qual vestígio arcaico da tradição, mas como pão no deserto, como alimento que o aproxima de Jesus e lhe dá forças para segui-lo aonde quer que Ele vá.
Thomas Merton wrote more than 70 books, mostly on spirituality, as well as scores of essays and reviews. Merton was a keen proponent of interfaith understanding.
Interest in his work contributed to a rise in spiritual exploration beginning in the 1960s and 1970s in the US. Merton's letters and diaries, reveal the intensity with which their author focused on social justice issues, including the civil rights movement and proliferation of nuclear arms. He had prohibited their publication for 25 years after his death. Publication raised new interest in Merton's life.
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