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Author QuotedLouis Massignon
Title QuotedParole donnee / Louis Massignon ; introd. de Vincent Monteil
Date (Year/Month/Day)1963/05/11
ImprintParis : Julliard. [1962]
Quotation"La finalite bistorique doit devenir ‘interieurement' et librement intelligible, car elle concerne la personne qui degage à elle seule le sens de l'epreuve commune (et non l'individu, element differencie dependant du groupe social qui en demeure la ‘fin' naturelle." ["Historical finality ought to become ‘interiorly' and freely understandable because it deals with the person who brings out, all alone, the sense of the common trial (and not the individual, a fundamentally differentiated element, depending on the social group which remains its natural ‘purpose.'"] L Massignon, Parole Donnee, 135. He goes on to say each can find in the religion of his own life "interferences experimentaires [experimental interferences]" between his own inner spiritual time and his time of historical events.
Quotation SourceTurning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4, 1960-1963.; Edited by Victor A. Kramer. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 319
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