Series 13: Gethsemani '64
Box# - Folder#: 2 - 5
Item#: 4
Creator: Yoder, John Howard, 1927-1997
Date or Range: 25 May 1993
First Lines: I am sorry to bother you with this kind of question, but I suspect it may have some interest for you
Sub-Type: Correspondence
Draft:
Copy Type: Typed letter
Number of pages: 1
Language: English
Notes: Letter from J. H. Yoder to Professor Marjorie Procter-Smith of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. Yoder references Merton's view that the waning of the Shaker community did not constitute failure of the movement, and he asks Procter-Smith if the Shaker movement discussed "the notion of success or of gratuitous validity?"
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