Comments on: Remembering Thomas Merton https://notstrictlyspiritual.com/spirituality/remembering-thomas-merton-4/ Discovering the Divine in the Everyday. Fri, 25 Jun 2021 19:59:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: tom arnall https://notstrictlyspiritual.com/spirituality/remembering-thomas-merton-4/#comment-4747 Fri, 25 Jun 2021 19:59:32 +0000 https://notstrictlyspiritual.com/?p=5148#comment-4747 In am curious about these words: “God approaches our minds by receding from them. We can never fully know Him if we think of Him as an object of capture, to be fenced in by the enclosure of our own ideas.”

It seems to me that they imply that we _can_ get to fully know God once we quit thinking “of Him as an object of capture.” I do not believe that any human being can fully know God in this life. Further, I am not at all sure that it is possible in the next. I would very much like to know your thoughts on this.

Merton BTW is one of my heroes, and I often read his books and listen to the lectures he gave at Gethsemani. Despite my respect for him, I am sometimes critical of his statements. I think he would have appreciated this.

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