The Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology in collaboration with Blackfriars Hall, Oxford hosts only the second ever UK ...

Not since the 14th century have the Holy See and the world’s most powerful secular government been led simultaneously by ...

Citing two French philosophers, Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) and Jacques Maritain (1882-1973), the pope calls for the adoption of Maritain's “principle” that “love is worth more than ...

The Holy Father quoted French philosopher Jacques Maritain in his Feb. 11 message, saying: “Love is worth more than intelligence” and expressing his concern that an overemphasis on data and ...

IN the five essays here translated into English (rather queer English in places) Prof. J. Maritain attacks the philosophy of Descartes ; in some ways very unfairly. The first essay deals with 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 ...

Drawing on Thomas Aquinas and fortified by the work of Étienne Gilson, Jacques Maritain, and Josef Pieper, Flannery O’Connor added a Thomistic underpinning to her understanding of the poetic image and ...

Last year marked 50 years since the death of the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain and almost 60 years since the promulgation of “Nostra Aetate,” the Catholic Church’s declaration ...

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 ...

Its first recipient was feted with a dinner at New York’s Fifth Avenue Hotel in May 1955, though the 250 guests present heard the honoree, Jacques Maritain, accept his award by telephone ...

Jacques Maritain became a celebrity thanks to his considerable intellectual and philosophical contributions during the 20th century. Born in 1882 in France, Maritain was deeply influenced by the ...