Maritain
Americannoun
noun
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“One is tempted to say that attention to the political is too much,” wrote Jacques Maritain, the French postwar ambassador to the Vatican, “considering the essential role of the Church.”
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2015
“Coming from a big public high school, G. K. Chesterton or Hilaire Belloc or Jacques Maritain or Evelyn Waugh — these are writers I wouldn’t have run across,” she said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2015
There are a lot of serious thinkers cited throughout the book, people like Niebuhr, Jacques Maritain and John Courtney Murray.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2012
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was so grateful I bought a number of paperback books—works of Maritain, Aquinas and Christopher Dawson.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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