Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts of Related Collections:

Series 13: Gethsemani '64


Box# - Folder#:  2 - 5

Item#:  4

Creator:  Yoder, John Howard, 1927-1997

Date or Range:   25 May 1993

First Lines:  I am sorry to bother you with this kind of question, but I suspect it may have some interest for you

Sub-Type:  Correspondence

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typed letter

Number of pages:  1

Language:  English

Notes:  Letter from J. H. Yoder to Professor Marjorie Procter-Smith of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. Yoder references Merton's view that the waning of the Shaker community did not constitute failure of the movement, and he asks Procter-Smith if the Shaker movement discussed "the notion of success or of gratuitous validity?"