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What was Thomas Merton categorized as?  

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He began with profound, sound theology and degenerated as he became involved with Eastern mysticism. His journey did not lead to Christ, but to introspection which is a dead end street.

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Where's some proof from something he wrote?

I doubt highly that he would ever reject Christ as the only door to salvation and that he would reduce his prayer life to introspection.

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[quote]NEAR THE END OF HIS LIFE, the American Christian monk, poet, social critic and mystic, Thomas Merton said that he wanted “to become as good a Buddhist as I can” (Steindl-Rast, 1969).[/quote]

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