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
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Mournier wrote in support of the idea that all persons should be treated with dignity and respect. He believed that after the French Revolution, God was no longer seen as the source of man’s dignity. With this, people were not to be seen as having absolute rights. Rather, their exercise of rights should be subject to the will of the collective. This is not to say that Christian ideas are not important, but they are valued because they are based on God.

Source: All Saints: Daily Reflections On Saints, Prophets, & Witnesses For Our Time

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