J. S. Porter

Heretic Blood

History & Biography

“Every twenty or so years, a book comes along that reframes the discussion of a great writer. Such is the case with Michael W. Higgins' Heretic Blood: The Spiritual Geography of Thomas Merton, a work of dazzling style and cogent thought. In my reading, no book has ever made Merton's life-mission clearer: to repair the disunity of the world, to restore the presence of silence in everyday life, to oppose one-dimensional thought, and to pursue imaginative and spiritual wholeness.”