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“As persons, so Mournier maintained, we possess both a spiritual and temporal dimension; we exist in history, in relationship with others, but open to transcendence and ultimately to God. This concept of the person, he believed, was denied as much by an atheistic totalitarianism of the Left as by the bourgeois materialism of capitalist society. To the extent that Christianity had become infected by the bourgeois spirit, it had become a prop in what he called, 'the established disorder.”

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Book:All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, & Witnesses for Our Time
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Robert Ellsberg
Robert Ellsberg

Robert Ellsberg (born 1955) is an American publisher known for his work in religious and spiritual publishing. He has served as senior editor and publisher at Orbis Books, a prominent Catholic publishing house. As the son of Daniel Ellsberg, the famous Pentagon Papers leaker, Ellsberg has made significant contributions to contemporary religious literature, focusing on Catholic theology, interfaith dialogue, and social justice themes. more

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