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Reason with Piety, Garrigou-Lagrange in the Service of Catholic Thought
Reason with Piety GarrigouLagrange in the Service of Catholic Thought Author:Aidan Nichols, OP With his characteristic insight, clarity, and charity, Aidan Nichols surveys the major writings and theological intuitions of his Dominican confrere Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange (1877-1964), to whom we owe a major twentieth-century appropriation of the Thomist commentators. Originally delivered as lectures at Oxford University, the study traces Ga... more »rrigou-Lagrange's systematic thought, from the Trinity to eschatology, and attends as well to his understanding of the nature of theology, of metaphysics, of mystical theology, and of the relation of all human acts to man's supernatural end. Demolishing the stereotypical portrait of mid-twentieth century controversies, Nichols shows that what post-conciliar students can learn from Garrigou is how to reason with piety.« less