{"id":285,"date":"2025-02-24T08:51:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T08:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/merton-on-scripture-scotus-and-thomas\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T08:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T08:51:24","slug":"merton-on-scripture-scotus-and-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/merton-on-scripture-scotus-and-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merton on Scripture, Scotus, and Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>The Journals of Thomas Merton<\/em>, Volume Two, 1941-1952, p. 345, August 5, 1949, Our Lady of the Snows:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">If I had only spent the time on Scripture that I wasted on Duns Scotus, but I never really got around to understanding more than a tenth of what I read with so much labor. There is much more nourishment for me in Thomas, after all.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">This but a small part of a very rich entry. Surrounding entries are very informative about Merton&#39;s ignorance of Scripture and theology.&#0160;<\/span>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume Two, 1941-1952, p. 345, August 5, 1949, Our Lady of the Snows: If I had only spent the time on Scripture that I wasted on Duns Scotus, but I never really got around to understanding more than a tenth of what I read with so much labor. There is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/merton-on-scripture-scotus-and-thomas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Merton on Scripture, Scotus, and Thomas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merton-thomas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","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=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}