Word: ssa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young Sorbonne students climbed hand in hand up the long, steep stairs to Paris' Sacré Coeur. They knocked at a door which was opened by a strange, shabby old man with a walrus mustache. Young Protestant Jacques Maritain and his Jewish wife Rai'ssa had come to old Roman Catholic Leon Bloy for help. The Maritains were heavyhearted with questions, and they believed that Bloy, the outcast scourge of complacent Christianity (TIME, April 14, 1947), might have some answers...
...Sorbonne, Jacques and Raïssa Maritain had recoiled from the materialist philosophies of their professors. They had even brooded about a suicide pact, until Philosopher Henri Bergson's lectures opened their eyes to the possibility of a truth beyond reason. Then they read two of Bloy's books. Wrote Maritain: "All the values we gave to things were put in different places, as if by the turning of an invisible switch. We knew . . . from then on that 'there is but one sadness, and that is, not to be of the saints' . . ." Maritain and his wife...
...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...