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An Essay on Christian Philosophy
Contributor(s): Maritain, Jacques (Author)
ISBN: 0802210597     ISBN-13: 9780802210593
Publisher: Philosophical Library
OUR PRICE:   $24.30  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: January 1955
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Philosophy
- Religion | Christian Theology - General
- Philosophy | Religious
Dewey: 261.51
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.70 lbs) 132 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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This original translation, by Edward H. Flannery, brings you one of Maritain's most eye-opening studies of Christianity. Although not his most famous work, Maritain's An Essay on Christian Philosophy provides readers with an in-depth analysis and careful philosophical approach to the study of theology and, at the time of original publication, was considered to be the definitive statement of the Thomistic position. Discover his theses for yourself as Maritain considers the nature of philosophy, morality, and their relations to Christianity with clarity and a scholarly attention to detail. Flannery provides English readers with a glossary of terms to bring further understanding to Maritain's original words. Jacques Maritain was a French Catholic philosopher and political thinker. He was born in Paris in 1882, where he spent most of his life. His father was a prominent lawyer and his mother the daughter of a statesman. He attended the Sorbonne to study philosophy and natural science, and after marrying, he and his wife converted to Catholicism. It was after this he became a well-known scholar of St. Thomas Aquinas and Thomistic philosophy. He published widely on philosophical and political thought, and by the 1930s, he was an established thinker in the Catholic community. After the outbreak of WWII, Maritain relocated to the United States, where he taught at Princeton University and Columbia University. Later in life, he and his wife returned to France, where he continued to write and study Catholic scholarship until his death in 1973.