Jacques & Raissa Maritain Beggars for Heaven by Jean-Luc Barré Notre Dame, 528 pp., $50 Not long ago I met a young woman who is studying philosophy at Stanford, and when I told her I was reading ...

On several occasions before the war, through articles and public lectures, Jacques Maritain ... as well as a work of justice and reparation. A 1947 papal audience only left Maritain with a ...

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 ...

He does me the undeserved honor of comparing the reception of the book to the reception, nearly a century ago, of the great Catholic thinker Jacques Maritain ... and work outward from there ...

Robert Royal’s 1993 study, “Jacques Maritain and the Jews” (University ... Readers like you make it all possible. Support our work by becoming a Forward Member and connect with our ...

This is a plural occasion to celebrate several important anniversaries: the eightieth anniversary of the appointment of Jacques Maritain as Ambassador of France to the Holy See, in 1945; the ...

In 1901, on a summer day in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, Jacques Maritain and his future wife, Raïssa, concluded a suicide pact. The two Sorbonne students despaired at the lectures of France ...

How Jacques Maritain, the most influential Catholic intellectual of the 20th century, changed the world. By Madoc Cairns It was a beautiful day in the long, hot summer of 1901 when Jacques Maritain ...