| Author Quoted | Gregory of Nyssa |
| Title Quoted | De vita Moysis |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1949/11/25 |
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| Quotation | In the refectory we are reading Exodus and I have discovered St. Gregory of Nyssa's De Vita Moysis [Life of Moses]. I will probably try to talk about it in the Mystical Theology class. Having trouble organizing material. I refuse to follow any known text.-except I will take [Etienne] Gilson on St. Bernard when I get the preliminaries out of the way. I feel much better mapping out my own approach-from Scripture and the Fathers, Mysticism and Dogma togetherblending and culminating in experience. |
| Quotation Source | Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and Writer. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 2, 1941-1952.; Edited by Jonathan Montaldo. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 373 |
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