Philosophizing in Faith: Essays on the Beginning and End of Wisdom

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Philosophizing in Faith is an expansive collection of essays by Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., on epistemology, logic, and moral and political philosophy, as well as critiques of modernism and presentations of the proper relationship between philosophy and theology. Translating twenty of these twenty-one essays into English for the first time and meticulously editing and annotating the texts, Matthew K. Minerd makes abundantly clear the universal value of Garrigou-Lagrange’s thought and invites scholars and students alike to consider its character and claims in their own right and on their own terms. The fifth volume in the Thomist Tradition book series, Philosophizing in Faith: Essays on the Beginning and End of Wisdom is a genuine act of service to the truth, certain to become an enduring contribution to a right understanding of both philosophy and theology. **

review:

• Vaughan Yaklin, “Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.: The Order of Things: The Realism of the Principle of Finality,” The Incarnate Word 8, no. 2 (December 15, 2021): 183–86.

pp. 239-250 (PDF pp. 260-272) are his 1926 "Du gouvernement royal" préface de l’opuscule De regno de St Thomas d’Aquin , cited on p. 7 of Rosarium newsletter n° 5 – Winter 2021-2022.

Des Lauriers, O.P., cites, regarding virginity, "On the Nature of Knowledge as Union with the Other as Other", Philosophizing in Faith pp. 63-77, PDF pp. 85-98 {original: Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., “ Cognoscens quodammodo fit vel est aliud a se,” Revue Néoscolastique de Philosophie 25 (1923): 420–30}.

Philosophizing in Faith is an expansive collection of essays on epistemology, logic, and moral and political philosophy, as well as critiques of modernism and presentations of the proper relationship between philosophy and theology. Translating twenty of the twenty-one essays into English for the first time and meticulously editing and annotating the texts, Minerd makes abundantly clear the universal value of Garrigou-Lagrange’s thought and invites scholars and students alike to consider its character and claims in their own right and on their own terms.

The fifth volume in the Thomist Tradition book series, Philosophizing in Faith: Essays on the Beginning and End of Wisdom is a genuine act of service to the truth, certain to become an enduring contribution to a right understanding of both philosophy and theology.

Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., (1877–1964) was a priest, theologian, and philosopher who taught at the International Pontifical College Angelicum in Rome from 1909 to 1960. A prolific author of dozens of books and hundreds of articles, he influenced generations of Catholic thinkers through his preaching, teaching, and writing.

Matthew K. Minerd is a Ruthenian Catholic, husband, and father, serving as professor of philosophy and moral theology at Saints Cyril and Methodius Byzantine Catholic Seminary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Paperback: 478pp.

ISBN: 978-1950970506