The scholarly works of Jacques Maritain, a prominent mid-20th-century Catholic philosopher, are beyond the comprehension of most casual readers. Fortunately, his essays on education are quite ...
Jacques Maritain in an undated photo. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. “Maritain’s turn to Aquinas is not a call to go back to the dark ages.” So writes Jason West in his new book, The Christian Philosophy ...
When I was a college seminarian, studying philosophy at New York’s Saint John’s University in the 1990s, I had an incredible professor, a priest of my diocese (Brooklyn), Fr. Robert Lauder. Fr. Lauder ...
For many years, the influential philosopher Jacques Maritain has been seen as a rare philosemite among the French Catholics of his day (Maritain died at age 90 in 1973). Robert Royal’s 1993 study, ...
Jacques Maritain with Pope Paul VI in an undated photo (Wikimedia Commons). Last year marked 50 years since the death of the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain and almost 60 years since the ...
The publication by the French Dominican publisher Cerf of the epistolary correspondence between four of France’s best known Catholic intellectuals and writers, Georges Bernanos, Paul Claudel, François ...
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I am indebted to my friend James Matthew Wilson of Villanova for this deeply thoughtful take on The Benedict Option. He does me the undeserved honor of comparing the reception of the book to the ...
Not long ago I met a young woman who is studying philosophy at Stanford, and when I told her I was reading a new biography of Jacques Maritain, she said she had never heard of him. That the greatest ...
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