{"id":7257,"date":"2015-04-06T06:57:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T06:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/04\/06\/merton-quotes-evdokimov\/"},"modified":"2015-04-06T06:57:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T06:57:51","slug":"merton-quotes-evdokimov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/04\/06\/merton-quotes-evdokimov\/","title":{"rendered":"Merton Quotes Evdokimov"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander<\/em>, p. 308:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Evdokimov demands a virile ascesis, not simply gentlemanly retirement into leisure.  The monk does not build his monastic city 'on the margin' of the world, but instead of it<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n

He frankly regards monastic chastity as a refusal to procreate and to continue the existence of a society that has reached its term . . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

These quotations are relevant to the theme of Christian anti-natalism, a topic to which I hope to return.  But first I need to lay my hands on Evdokimov's books.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, p. 308: Evdokimov demands a virile ascesis, not simply gentlemanly retirement into leisure.  The monk does not build his monastic city 'on the margin' of the world, but instead of it. [. . .] He frankly regards monastic chastity as a refusal to procreate and to continue the … Continue reading “Merton Quotes Evdokimov”<\/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":[281,73,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-natalism","category-merton-thomas","category-monks-and-monasticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257","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=7257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}