| Author Quoted | Rosemary Haughton |
| Title Quoted | Transformation of Man |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1967/09/03 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1967 |
| Quotation | Yes, I like the Rosemary Haughton book [The Transformation of Man]. I think it will really help. You are right that I am swamped by such requests, and each time I respond to one I am likely to get more. But one acquires a certain independence in these matters. If I like a book and have time to say so, I'll say so. Historians of theology will quite possibly look back on our age as the "Age of Rosemarys" (at least in English-language theology). Or perhaps the "Age of the Mothers of the Church." Some of the more interesting theological insights today are coming from women and mothers. Evidently there is an aspect of theology which is not revealed to you until you have a baby, or several, and tried to bring them up. This is an admirable book, an existential theology of love and encounter, a fundamental statement and witness to the salvation event in daily life and in areas where, to an exclusively clerical theology, it was not previously visible. |
| Quotation Source | Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Thomas Merton in Times of Crisis.; Selected and edited by William H. Shannon. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1994, p. 174 |
| Letter to | Hugh Garvey |
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