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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-B-018-#01
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1967-06-24, TLS Barr to Merton, 'Thank you for your form letter on Father Davis and authoritarianism in the Church;'
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- 1967 June 24 (Creation)
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5 page(s); Typed signed letter.
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Ernest Barr was an author writing to Merton from Toronto.
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First lines: "Thank you for your form letter on Father Davis and authoritarianism in the Church; also for your"... Contents index: philosophical argument in Barr's book «The Paradoxical Church» / argues "the institutional Church is itself a form of idolatry; and this makes institutionalized religion «a living paradox»… the agent of Christ [and of] the anti-Christ" / all institutions are bad, including families / sacraments / upaya / Zen.
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- English
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to Thomas Merton from: Barr, Ernest E.