| Author Quoted | Henri Lubac, De |
| Title Quoted | Teilhard de Chardin: The Man and His Meaning / transl. R. Hague |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1967/06/25 |
| Imprint | New York : [s.n.]. 1965 |
| Quotation | I am reading De Lubac's book on Teilhard de C. - Commonweal has asked for a review. Maybe I should not have accepted - I've been doing too many reviews. But it is interesting. And I need to understand T. In many ways I find him "sympathique," but I can't get excited about his mystique, though it has its good points. It strikes me as a bit romantic, and all the queer neologisms - super-Christ, christic center, hominization of the cosmos etc. and the basic activism involved seem to me to give a very tinny kind of a sound when you tap on them to see what they are like. Maybe the book will finally make him quasi-established. He is in fact very much part of a certain kind of establishment thinking. |
| Quotation Source | Learning to love: exploring solitude and freedom. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 6, 1966-1967.; Edited by Christine M. Bochen. / [San Francisco] : HarperCollins. 1997, p. 254 |
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