| Author Quoted | Claude Tresmontant |
| Title Quoted | Doctrine morale des prophètes d'Israel |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1959/10/25 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : Editions du Seuil. 1958 |
| Quotation | Fr. Tresmontant says "C'est au niveau politique que se posent les problèmes moraux les plus graves." ["The gravest moral problems are found at the political level."] Never was this more true than in our time. Hence the importance of political decisions-and of taking sides in crucial and "prophetic" affairs which are moral touchstones-and in which Xstians are often in large numbers on the side of the unjust and the tyrant. |
| Journal | A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 3, 1952-1960.; Edited by Lawrence S. Cunningham. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 337 |
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