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Bernanos is not, like England's prodigious William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, a proponent of social reform. Nor is he, like his distinguished friend, Jacques Maritain, a scholastic philosopher. What Bernanos has done is to prove again, for the 20th Century, the psychological power of religious insight. In so doing he offers a profound challenge to free men in terms that most of them are beginning to understand...
20th-century Quixote? Georges Bernanos' Rio publisher says of him, "He is alone, this man." Last year, in North America, Jacques Maritain was writing: "Crushed by the woes of Apocalypse, the French see no prophet rising from their people to tell the true horror of what has happened and to reawaken the spirit in its depths." At that time Bernanos, self-exiled to Brazil since 1938, was filling five-cent notebooks with his sermons on the true horror, written with an eloquence worthy of the greatest writers of France...
Started by the University Christian Association and Virginia's faculty, who conceived the idea of pursuing theology "as an intellectual discipline," the lectures so stirred Virginia that similar courses were started at Yale, St. John's College, Drake University (Iowa). Virginia has had as lecturers Philosophers Jacques Maritain and Mortimer J. Adler; Dr. Henry St. George Tucker, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church; a cross section of Virginia's faculty, from philosophers to biologists...
...science and philosophy -frontiers from Jerusalem to Buenos Aires. Richard Henry Tawney, professor of economic history at the University of London, flew to the meeting by Clipper and plane. From the University of Buenos Aires came Philologist Amada Alonso; from the Catholic Institute of Paris, famed Philosopher Jacques Maritain. In the gathering were 150 college and university presidents. A symposium on the place of ethics in the modern world drew the biggest crowd. In the murk of Gothic Mandel Hall, 2,000 heard totalitarianism doomed by Professors Maritain, Tawney and Charles H. Mcllwain (Harvard) and President Hutchins. Although the learned...
...France came out last November; by last week 17 others had been added to Crespin's list. Best-sellers are the Maurois book, 15,000 copies; Jules Romains's rather naive Sept Mystères du Destin de l'Europe, 9,000; Jacques Maritain's A Travers le Désastre, 8,000; Robert Coffin's Le Roi des Beiges, atil Trahi?, 4,000. Scheduled for publication soon are books by Maritain (on Saint Paul), Emil Ludwig (on German history), Stefan Zweig (on Brazil). He has published new novels by Romains and Julian Green...