| Quotation | Finally I want to tell you how happy I am with the earlier chapters of The Theology of Culture, in which I find all my Augustinian and Franciscan instincts vindicated. True, I have been subjected to the Thomist formation, which is de rigueur for every priest, and it has made me a little suspicious of technical ontologism, but what you are after is the Franciscan instinct for immediacy which is to me the supremely important thing in religious thought"”and experience. And the thing so easily frustrated, glossed over and rejected by the doctors of the law. |