| Author Quoted | Karl Rahner |
| Title Quoted | Christian Commitment: Essays in Pastoral Theology |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1964/03/16 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : Sheed and Ward. 1963 |
| Quotation | I do not know whether you read English but I thought you might be interested in an article which took, as its starting point, your diaspora idea in the new book The Christian Commitment. I have also done a review of the book, which I will send you if and when it gets published. But meanwhile I wanted to let you have a copy of this article. Reading your book from the monastic point of view, I was especially happy with your discerning insistence on the person as opposed to the rather naive and sweeping collectivism that sometimes passes for pastoral theology today. Needless to say, I am in hearty agreement with your book and share with you the deep concern for a new and less rigidly institutional view of the Church, the concern that has been raised by the situation of the Church in her true "diaspora," the countries where unpleasant realities must be faced (and are not always faced). |
| Quotation Source | The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns.; Selected and edited by William H. Shannon. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1985, p. 496-97 |
| Letter to | Karl Rahner |
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