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Author QuotedRobert McAfee Brown
Title QuotedAmerican Dialogue: A Protestant Looks at Catholicism
Date (Year/Month/Day)1961/03/28
ImprintNew York : [s.n.]. 1960
QuotationDeeply impressed by this statement of Robert McAfee Brown: "All of the great movements of reform and renewal in the history of the Church have grown out of a rediscovery of the Bible, and there is every reason to believe that the present [contemporary] rediscovery of the Bible (both by Catholics and Protestants) may create a situation full of possibilities beyond our power to predict." [The American Dialogue: A Protestant Looks at Catholicism (New York, 1960), p 80]
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. 103
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