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Author QuotedHans Küng
Title QuotedCouncil, Reform and Reunion
Date (Year/Month/Day)1962/03/10
ImprintNew York : [s.n.]. 1961
QuotationYou must by now have had a look at the new Hans Küng book, The Council, Reform and Reunion. If you have not, then do by all means get it as fast as ever you can. I think it is not out but I have a review copy. It will really gladden your heart. It is one of the most forthright, direct and powerful statements of our actual condition and problem that I have ever seen. It is a most remarkable book and it will have a terrific impact. What the results will be, no one can say, but it is in a lot of ways a portent "¦
Quotation SourceThe Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns.; Selected and edited by William H. Shannon. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1985, p. 178
Letter toJohn Tracy Ellis
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