Scholasticism & Politics Garrigou-Lagrange A Poet Before the Cross

A Poet Before the Cross

for better or worse

Originally published in 1960

these two levels of interpretation produce an excellent guide not only to Augustine’s Christian destiny

Bourke’s The History of Ethics became the first full-scale

Scholasticism & Politics Garrigou-Lagrange A Poet Before the CrossBy Jacques Maritain Introduction by James V. Schall, SJ Afterword by Waldemar Gurian Scholasticism and Politics, originally a series of lectures given at the beginning of World War II, is renowned philosopher Jacques Maritains description of the relation of Christian revelation to human political life. Maritain asserts that social order should be distinguished by a convivium among the citizens, resting on a degree of consensus regarding the nature and