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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Kinsella, Nivard, Fr., O.C.S.O.".
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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If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
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This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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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 |
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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
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