| Author Quoted | John A. T. (John Arthur Thomas) Robinson |
| Title Quoted | Honest to God |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1964/06/23 |
| Imprint | Philadelphia : Westminster Press. [1963] |
| Quotation | First real interest in the "Honest to God" question.[Note 1: The "question" was prompted by the publication in 1963 of J. A. T. Robinson's Honest to God and later in 1963 by David L. Edwards's collection of essays, The "Honest to God" Debate: Some Reactions to the Book Honest to God.] Is it really so new? I think the problem is real enough and even one which Christianity has faced since the beginning. But the solution tends to be a debacle?? A complete surrender to nonsense and desperation and confusion. Is it really true that man is now totally and complacently content with modern technological culture as it is? Is there a great distance from Bonhoeffer's acceptance to Eichmann's acquiescence? Certainly! One must not stop at appearances and at a few texts out of context. |
| Quotation Source | Dancing in the Water of Life: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 5, 1963-1965.; Edited by Robert E. Daggy. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1997, p. 121 |
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