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title: Merton on Theology
tags: [Quote]
summary: Thomas Merton claims that theology must be based in personal relationship.
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> By faith the person...not only hears *about* God but enters into
> a personal relationship of obedient love with God his Father.

> Theology in the true sense starts not merely with certain
> formal authoritative propositions about God but from this
> personal relationship.
> [@merton80 92]

The concept of "personal relationship" is therefore playing a
crucial role in grounding the very definition of theology, yet I
suspect that it does not receive any more precise specification
that it does here.  That's my project.