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In The New Man, Thomas Merton addresses the challenge of living a Christian life in a world that is as increasingly out of touch with real humanity as it is out of touch with God. Merton argues that it “is a spiritual disaster for a man to rest content with his exterior identity.” Merton shares that as our true identity is defined in Christ we must find and define ourselves in the divine image. ...

THE mystery of man’s confidence in approaching God freely is a matter of speculative curiosity, perhaps, when we consider Adam’s parrhesia in Eden. But when we see the freedom with which the sinner approaches God in and through Christ, it is an entirely different matter: this is close to us, and it can be to us a matter of experience! Furthermore, this is the only parrhesia which we shall ever experience. The “free speech” with which God and man now familiarly converse together is and can only
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