Missing a Mark

Merton sees “sin” not as transgression but as soul sickness; not, in other words, a matter of doing this or that that one must atone for, but rather the being radically out of sorts with one’s essential humanity.

Either way, the chicken, the egg...

Comments

[The Anchoress]

Yes...chickens and eggs.

Merton found a more sophisticated way of teaching the truth, that's all! :-)