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Merton's Correspondence with:

Fr. Nivard Kinsella, Nivard; Fr. M. Nivard Kinsella, M. Nivard

Kinsella, Nivard, Fr., O.C.S.O., d. 2010  printer

 
 

Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1953
Volume: 1 item(s); 3 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Kinsella, Nivard, Fr., O.C.S.O.".

Biography

Fr. Nivard Kinsella was a Trappist monk of Mount Saint Joseph Abbey in Roscrea (Ros Cré), Ireland. (Previously filed under "Nivard, Br., O.C.S.O." and moved in 2022.)

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1. 1953/12/04 TLS to Merton About a year ago your book "Ascent to Truth" was read in our refectory, and a passage in it caught Kinsella, though expressing positive feedback overall with Merton's book The Ascent to Truth, takes issue with an assertion about modern Thomists (or would like to know Merton's source for his claim) and finds Merton's presentation of "acquired contemplation" and "infused contemplation" to be confusing «detailed view»

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