Thomas Merton Center

Merton Correspondence:

The "Byles, Marie Beuzeville, 1900-1979" file

Single Item Record for the Date:
1967/January/09 

Series:    

Type:  TL[c] - Carbon copy of a typed letter (not signed).

To/From:  from Merton to "Byles, Marie Beuzeville, 1900-1979"-->

# of pages:  1

Published in:  Witness to Freedom

First Lines:  "Your kind letter of October 20th took a good long time to reach me via India, and I only got it"

Contents:  Catholic idea of holy obedience - ancient idea of holy obedience from the Gospels and taken up by religious orders - difference between obedience and the legalism of blind obedience / problems in Catholicism of impersonal power systems versus the things it should be liberating us from

Language:  English

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Date received:  

Date added:  2004

Unique identifier:  Section A- "Byles, Marie Beuzeville, 1900-1979:"    1967/January/09