Antonin gilbert sertillanges biography of barack

Summary of A. G. Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life Charles Bumgardner A. G. Sertillanges.1 The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods.

Washington, D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1998. Translated by Mary Ryan, with foreword by James V. Schall.

Antonin gilbert sertillanges biography of barack obama

Translation of La vie intellectuelle: Son esprit, ses conditions, ses méthodes. Paris: Revue des Jeunes, 1921. Sertillanges has constructed upon the De modo studendi of Thomas Aquinas a treatise concerning “the management of the mind” of the Roman Catholic intellectual (xxix).2 While the non-Catholic reader must take exception to certain points of the work, it is nevertheless a wellspring of deep wisdom and practical help.

The Intellectual Life is a sort of “meta-work” which provides an overarching look at the life of the mind to which the theological student, among others, must aspire. There has been a recent spate of evangelical books which overlap Sertillan