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Article: Rosemary Ruether and Thomas Merton: letters on creation and salvation.(excerpt from the book 'At Home in the World')(Cover Story)
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- The Christian Century
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- March 22, 1995
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IN 1966 Rosemary Radford Ruether initiated a correspondence with Tho as Merton, the widely published spiritual writer and Trappist monk. Radford was 29 and teaching at Howard University in Washington, D. C. She recalls that she was looking for "a genuine Catholic intellectual peer- with whom she could be ruthlessly honest about my own questions of intellectual and existential integrity." The correspondence, which lasted 18 months, is especially revealing of some of Metton's reflections on--and struggles with--the monastic life. The complete text of the correspondence, At Home in the World, edited by Mary Tardiff, O.P, will be published next month by Orbis Books.
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