| Author Quoted | Owen Chadwick |
| Title Quoted | From Bossuet to Newman: the Idea of Doctrinal Development |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1963/08/20 |
| Imprint | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. 1957 |
| Quotation | Reading William Owen Chadwick's excellent essay From Bossuet to Newman - idea of doctrinal development. Disturbed by the realization that since the late Middle Ages the Church has apparently lost her power of really creative assimilation (of non-Christian cultural values) and has on the contrary tended to let heresy be assimilated by secular forces. Reasons for this? And what does it mean? |
| Journal | Dancing in the Water of Life: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 5, 1963-1965.; Edited by Robert E. Daggy. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1997, p. 11 |
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