persons, Mournier maintained, possess a spiritual temporal dimension; — Robert Ellsberg, Saints: Daily Reflections Saints, Prophets, & Witnesses Time

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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.

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

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