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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Barr, Ernest E.".
Ernest Barr was an author writing to Merton from Toronto.
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| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1967/06/24 |
TLS to Merton |
Thank you for your form letter on Father Davis and authoritarianism in the Church; also for your |
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philosophical argument in Barr's book The Paradoxical Church / argues "the institutional Church is itself a form of idolatry; and this makes institutionalized religion a living paradox… the agent of Christ [and of] the anti-Christ" / all institutions are bad, including families / sacraments / upaya / Zen
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1967/07/08 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for your long and interesting letter of June 24, with its enclosures. I regret that I am so |
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issues concerning institutions, evil, and the metaphysical questions these issues bring forth in modern philosophy of Kant, Hegel, and Marx / Merton claims not well enough versed in modern philosophy and "suspicion of institutions is based on Biblical and eschatological ground, not metaphysics."
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