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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Barr, Ernest E.

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Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967

Volume: 2 item(s); 6 pg(s)

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Biography

Ernest Barr was an author writing to Merton from Toronto.

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1967/06/24 TLSto MertonThank you for your form letter on Father Davis and authoritarianism in the Church; also for your  philosophical argument in Barr's book <i>The Paradoxical Church</i> / argues "the institutional Church is itself a form of idolatry; and this makes institutionalized religion <u>a living paradox</u>… the agent of Christ [and of] the anti-Christ" / all institutions are bad, including families / sacraments / upaya / Zen
 1967/07/08 TL[c]from MertonThanks for your long and interesting letter of June 24, with its enclosures. I regret that I am so  issues concerning institutions, evil, and the metaphysical questions these issues bring forth in modern philosophy of Kant, Hegel, and Marx / Merton claims not well enough versed in modern philosophy and "suspicion of institutions is based on Biblical and eschatological ground, not metaphysics."
        

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