Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Introduction: the new century; 2. A prophet of the past: Joseph de Maistre; 3. Traditionalism and change; 4. Lammennais and liberal Catholicism: (I) a new apologetic; 5. Lammennais and liberal Catholicism: (II) Catholicism and democracy; 6. The fideism of Louis Bautain; 7. Voluntarism: Maine de Biran and others; 8. Ontologism; 9. Maret and Gratry; 10. An answer to positivism; 11. Maurice Blondel and the philosophy of action; 12. Alfred Loisy and the biblical question; Postscript; Index.

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This 1975 text is a diverse survey of French Catholic thought during a period of marked spiritual and intellectual revival.