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Date(s)
- 1967 January 9 (Creation)
Extent
1 page(s); Carbon copy of a typed letter (not signed).
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Biographical history
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a writer and Trappist monk at Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky. His writings include such classics as The Seven Storey Mountain, New Seeds of Contemplation, and Zen and the Birds of Appetite. Merton is the author of more than seventy books that include poetry, personal journals, collections of letters, social criticism, and writings on peace, justice, and ecumenism.
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First lines: "Your kind letter of October 20th took a good long time to reach me via India, and I only got it"... Contents index: Catholic idea of holy obedience - ancient idea of holy obedience from the Gospels and taken up by religious orders - difference between obedience and the legalism of blind obedience / problems in Catholicism of impersonal power systems versus the things it should be liberating us from.
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Languages of the material
- engleză
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Witness to Freedom