The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University

MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Kinsella, Nivard, Fr., O.C.S.O., d. 2010

Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1953

Volume: 1 item(s); 3 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Fr. Nivard Kinsella was a Trappist monk of Mount Saint Joseph Abbey in Roscrea (Ros Cré), Ireland. (Previously filed under "Nivard, Br., O.C.S.O." and moved in 2022.)

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Other Finding Aids

If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
54842

Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

Series	Date	Type	To/From	First Lines	Pub	Full Text	Notes
	1953/12/04	TLS	to Merton	About a year ago your book "Ascent to Truth" was read in our refectory, and a passage in it caught		✉	Kinsella, though expressing positive feedback overall with Merton's book The Ascent to Truth, takes issue with an assertion about modern Thomists (or would like to know Merton's source for his claim) and finds Merton's presentation of "acquired contemplation" and "infused contemplation" to be confusing

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