| Author Quoted | Hans Urs von Balthasar |
| Title Quoted | Herrlichkeit. Eine theologische Ästetik. |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1964/08/28 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1961 |
| Quotation | Hans Urs von Balthasar has sent me his Herrlichkeit [Lordship] and it is magnificent. I am very glad to have it, though I read it very slowly and not with ease in German. It is great theology and everywhere perfect for monks - completely sapiential. |
| Quotation Source | Survival or Prophecy? The Letters of Thomas Merton and Jean Leclercq.; Edited by Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O. / New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2002, p. 116 |
| Letter to | Dom Jean Leclercq, o.s.b. |
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