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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Christiansen, Gordon

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Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1963

Volume: 2 item(s); 3 pg(s)

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Biography

Gordon Christiansen was the Director of Studies of the Peace Education Division of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The AFSC is a social justice and peace organization founded by Quakers.

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1963/01/17 TALSto MertonI am writing you at this time to request that you comment on the enclosed manuscript,  [contains Merton's handwritten annotations] asks Merton reaction to Erich Fromm's <i>The Psychological Causes of War</i> for a series promoting alternatives to a U.S. nuclear policy / enclosing Waskow's <i>Unintended War</i> / invited contributors: Niebuhr, Tillich, Jerome Frank, Sorokin, Masserman, Bettleheim, Menninger
 1963/06/28 TL[c]from MertonMany thanks for the extra copies of the pamphlet "War Within Man". I was glad to have them and  Merton thinks responses to Fromm by some (Tillich, Morgenthau and others) were "negative and evasive" / wants to write Fromm a positive response / Leslie Dewart of St. Michael's College in Toronto - book on Cuba
        

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