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Merton's Correspondence with:

Gordon Christiansen

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1963
Volume: 2 item(s); 3 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Christiansen, Gordon".

Biography

Gordon Christiansen was the Director of Studies of the Peace Education Division of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The AFSC is a social justice and peace organization founded by Quakers.

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1. 1963/01/17 TALS to Merton I am writing you at this time to request that you comment on the enclosed manuscript, [contains Merton's handwritten annotations] asks Merton reaction to Erich Fromm's The Psychological Causes of War for a series promoting alternatives to a U.S. nuclear policy / enclosing Waskow's Unintended War / invited contributors: Niebuhr, Tillich, Jerome Frank, Sorokin, Masserman, Bettleheim, Menninger «detailed view»
2. 1963/06/28 TL[c] from Merton Many thanks for the extra copies of the pamphlet "War Within Man". I was glad to have them and Merton thinks responses to Fromm by some (Tillich, Morgenthau and others) were "negative and evasive" / wants to write Fromm a positive response / Leslie Dewart of St. Michael's College in Toronto - book on Cuba «detailed view»

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