{"id":1031,"date":"2024-01-12T10:55:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T10:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/01\/12\/thomas-merton-on-newman-and-chesterton\/"},"modified":"2024-01-12T10:55:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T10:55:47","slug":"thomas-merton-on-newman-and-chesterton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/01\/12\/thomas-merton-on-newman-and-chesterton\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Merton on Newman and Chesterton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>The Journals of Thomas Merton<\/em>, Volume Three (1952-1960), p. 374, an excerpt from the entry of 3 February 1960:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">I have to begin reading Newman, whom without cause I have neglected as though he were, say Chesterton. There is all the difference in the world. At the moment I am much more akin to the vanity and absurdity of Chesterton than I am to the solidity and brilliance of Newman. Brilliancy is a bad word &#8212; for me to desire that is always fatal!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I share Merton&#39;s low opinion of Chesterton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">For a long thread on Chesterton featuring Brian Bosse, Elliot, and me, go <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2023\/03\/a-response-to-my-is-sin-a-fact.html\">here<\/a>. The question is whether sin is a fact.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume Three (1952-1960), p. 374, an excerpt from the entry of 3 February 1960: I have to begin reading Newman, whom without cause I have neglected as though he were, say Chesterton. There is all the difference in the world. At the moment I am much more akin to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/01\/12\/thomas-merton-on-newman-and-chesterton\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thomas Merton on Newman and Chesterton&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chesterton","category-merton-thomas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}