About the Author
Fr. James V. Schall, S.J.
Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. (1928-2019), was an American Jesuit Catholic priest, teacher, writer, and philosopher. He authored more than thirty books, including Another Sort of Learning. Fr. Schall’s essays have appeared in numerous publications, such as Crisis, Gilbert, Saint Austin Review, The Review of Politics, The Thomist, Commonweal, New Oxford Review, Homiletic & Pastoral Review, and others. He was ordained a priest in 1963.
What People Are Saying
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Fr. James Schall has been described as America’s Chesterton. His latest book is a collection of his perennial thoughts illustrating both his literary abilities and his deeply Catholic intellect. This set of essays showcases what it might mean to place one’s intelligence in the service of Christ.
Tracey Rowland
St. John Paul II Chair of Theology,
University of Notre Dame (Australia)
This book is chock full of the wisdom of old age, like a fine wine. It is a delightful journey of well-ordered ancient truths marching through the dark forest of non-delightful and disordered modern falsehoods. It reveals the catastrophic consequences of Protestant, Islamic, and secular-humanist voluntarisms, which implicitly ‘play God’ by their reversal of the fundamental relationship between the human mind and objective reality.
Peter Kreeft
Author of dozens of books, including Handbook of Catholic Apologetics
There are many books on the relation of faith and reason. Some of them are trustworthy guides to the subject, some not. What Fr. Schall has produced here is eminently trustworthy. He gives not only a sound picture of what it means to be an intelligent Catholic on a vast range of topics, but with daring and accuracy he identifies the erroneous paths most likely to lead an intelligent Catholic astray.
Fr. Joseph W. Koterski, S.J.
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University
Editor-in-Chief, International Philosophical Quarterly
Fr. James Schall has been described as America’s Chesterton. His latest book is a collection of his perennial thoughts illustrating both his literary abilities and his deeply Catholic intellect. This set of essays showcases what it might mean to place one’s intelligence in the service of Christ.
Tracey Rowland
St. John Paul II Chair of Theology,
University of Notre Dame (Australia)
This book is chock full of the wisdom of old age, like a fine wine. It is a delightful journey of well-ordered ancient truths marching through the dark forest of non-delightful and disordered modern falsehoods. It reveals the catastrophic consequences of Protestant, Islamic, and secular-humanist voluntarisms, which implicitly ‘play God’ by their reversal of the fundamental relationship between the human mind and objective reality.
Peter Kreeft
Author of dozens of books, including Handbook of Catholic Apologetics
There are many books on the relation of faith and reason. Some of them are trustworthy guides to the subject, some not. What Fr. Schall has produced here is eminently trustworthy. He gives not only a sound picture of what it means to be an intelligent Catholic on a vast range of topics, but with daring and accuracy he identifies the erroneous paths most likely to lead an intelligent Catholic astray.
Fr. Joseph W. Koterski, S.J.
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University
Editor-in-Chief, International Philosophical Quarterly
Fr. James Schall has been described as America’s Chesterton. His latest book is a collection of his perennial thoughts illustrating both his literary abilities and his deeply Catholic intellect. This set of essays showcases what it might mean to place one’s intelligence in the service of Christ.
Tracey Rowland
St. John Paul II Chair of Theology,
University of Notre Dame (Australia)
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