Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section E.1:

Opening the Bible. Introduction to the Time Life Bible.

Item 1 - [01] K Barth. From The Word of God and the Word of Man

First Lines:  The Bible gives to every man and to every era such answers to their questions as they deserve.

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1967?

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 2 - [02] The Fidelity of God

First Lines:  As revealed in the Bible. Central idea - fidelity and love of God for man so that God will never

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1967

Number of pages:  1

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Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 3 - [03] Why Bible is a problem.

First Lines:  The fact that it is the word, God

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1967

Number of pages:  1

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Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 4 - [04] Notes for Article on Bible [Barth and Bonhoeffer]

First Lines:  Dishonesty of reductionist readings. 'religious art' is partial.

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1967

Number of pages:  2

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Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 5 - [05] Introduction - Opening the Bible.

First Lines:  1) Statement of problems. What kind of book is this? The Bible is both familiar and unfamiliar.

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1967

Number of pages:  3

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Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 6 - [06] Bible- [Barth, Bultmann, and Gerhard Ebeling, Erich Fromm "Ghetto Bible"]

First Lines:  - and man's decisions as a temporal being, in regard to the meaning and end of his history.

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1967

Number of pages:  5

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Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 7 - [07] Spirituality of Bible

First Lines:  1) Note our unconscious assumptions makes it difficult to really understand.

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1967

Number of pages:  1

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Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 8 - [08] "Ambiguity" of revelation. cf Guardini on Pascal.

First Lines:  The "reasonable" resistance to revelation - observing the real

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1967

Number of pages:  1

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Language:  English

Notes:  Romano Guardini

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 9 - [09] Wrath of God.

First Lines:  -This is what modern man is most inclined to reject in Bible - the first thing he

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1967

Number of pages:  1

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Language:  English

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Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 10 - [10] Points for the Bible Project.

First Lines:  1) What kind of book? How treat it? Word of God as event - happening in the Spirit. Compare

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1967

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 11 - [11] Bible

First Lines:  Old Test. - 'body of Jewish literature' ? at once alien and familiar

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1967

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Verso: end of other notes / "Monasticism: crisis and renewal."

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6