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...starting point the elementary fact of human existence. The word, and the Catholic Church's wish to assist Thomism's prior claim to it, had brought 13th Century Existentialist Aquinas and 20th Century Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre together. The whole room rustled when white-maned Philosopher Jacques Maritain stood up to speak...
...said to have been filled with "former friends." But though he estranged many, Bloy brought into the Roman Catholic fold many an apostate or proselyte to whom the church's more official voices had sounded too worldly and well-fed. One convert was the Thomist philosopher, Jacques Maritain. In 1905, Maritain, then a God-seeking philosophy student, and his young wife, Raïssa, visited Léon Bloy for the first time. They found in him the spiritual inspiration they had been looking...
Just published is a collection of Bloy's writings (Pilgrim of the Absolute, Pantheon, $3.50), edited by Raïssa Maritain, with an introduction by her husband, now France's Ambassador to the Vatican. The loving and loathing in these fragments might well prove a shock treatment for some torpid Christians. Excerpts...
Born in Pembrokeshire, Wales (in 1876), Gwen John preferred Paris. There she divided her life between painting in her monastic quarters and praying in a Roman Catholic chapel around the corner. Poet Rainer Maria Rilke lent her books now & then, and she corresponded with "Dear Master" Neo-Thomist Jacques Maritain, but her only constant company was cats. She was careful to remember the cats in her will...
...greater than his ability to put it in practical terms. But this vision, which is no less than the revitalization of democracy, explains why Chicago's Auxiliary Bishop Bernard J. Sheil calls Reveille for Radicals "a life-saving handbook for the salvation of democracy," and why Philosopher Jacques Maritain calls it "epoch-making...