““About E. de Rosny, who has described his experience in Africa with the help of your theory, I’ve just heard that his new book226 is a huge success (15,000 copies sold in two weeks—eight pages in Paris Match). I don’t yet know if he speaks much about you in the book—I hope so; that would be quite a help! My article on St. Augustine is finished (with publication probably in a year’s time).227 I’m now working on Maximus the Confessor.228 I realize more and more that the question of freedom is central to patristic thinking about redemption. But nobody managed to adequately formulate this problem. Freedom is also the positive counterbalance to the sacrificial mechanism. Have you elaborated upon this issue at all [développé un peu ce problème]: freedom–mechanism / freedom–mimesis? I am looking for extra enlightenment on this.””
