Robert Royal is the president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington DC and editor of the online column series The Catholic Thing. He is the author, editor, and translator of more than a dozen books, and he writes and speaks frequently on questions of culture, religion, and public life. His work has appeared in a wide variety of publications in the United States and abroad.
There is no better expositor of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition
than Robert Royal. Intimately acquainted with its sources, history,
and contours, Royal offers the reader a compelling account of the
tradition and the role that it plays, and ought to play, in the
Church's encounter with the world.
-- Francis J. Beckwith, Professor of Philosophy & Church-State
Studies, Baylor UniversityA pivotal book. Royal shows how each
generation in the great Catholic intellectual tradition processes
down the centuries in millennial long conversations with those
preceding them. This ongoing procession contributes to a vast and
complex cathedral of mind and heart, far more enduring than those
of stone, wherein human dignity is discovered to be a gift, a
finite participation, in the very mystery of the Triune God.
-- Fr. Matthew Lamb, Professor of Theology, Ave Maria
UniversityThis masterful book makes clear that the past century,
for all its terrible horrors, was also a time of extraordinary
Christian fruitfulness. Royal is a cultural commentator with rare
scholarly breadth and balance. His judgments regarding major 20th
century theologians and theological movements should be required
reading for all graduate students and seminarians. Royal is even
more in his element when he assesses the great Catholic poets,
historians, and novelists who graced the past century. This
uplifting book comes as a much needed encouragement in the midst of
the deepening storms of our own time. For if the twentieth century
shows that where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more, surely
this too will be the ultimate story of our own century.
-- Matthew Levering, Professor of Theology, Mundelein Seminary
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