{"product_id":"a-focus-on-truth-thomas-mertons-uncensored-mind-9780814688496","title":"A Focus on Truth: Thomas Merton's Uncensored Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liturgical Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814688496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216","brand":"Patrick W. Collins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39463382843573,"sku":"9780814688496","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_584be525-aa3c-4ec5-ab45-0547c30c2930.jpg?v=1615923904","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-focus-on-truth-thomas-mertons-uncensored-mind-9780814688496","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}