| Author Quoted | Bahya ibn Pakuda |
| Title Quoted | Introduction aux devoirs des coeurs / transl. André Chouraqui, 1943 |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1964/01/01 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1943 |
| Quotation | First of all I want to thank you for the Introduction aux devoirs des coeurs [by Bahya] which has arrived. I really like it very much indeed. I thank you also for your offprint. I was especially interested in the one about Gilbert Crispin, about which you had told me. It fits with my own ideas about Anselm and his school. I have done two articles on Anselm, in which I agree with Barth that to call him an "apologist" is really absurd. I cannot imagine why Schmitt, the editor of Anselm's works, is so silly as to insist that Anselm is writing apologetics. Your thesis on Crispin seems to me exactly right. |
| Quotation Source | The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns.; Selected and edited by William H. Shannon. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1985, p. 586 |
| Letter to | R.J. Zwi Werblowsky |
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