The Very Rich Hours of Jacques Maritain: A Spiritual Life

SEXT (1927-1940)

SEXT (‒) Chronology  July. Primacy of the Spiritual. Conversion of Charles de Bos. Meets Yves Simon and Olivier Lacombe . October. A Few Pages on Léon Bloy (Quelques pages sur Léon Bloy). December. Why Rome Has Spoken, by many authors, among them Maritain. Jacques had been summoned to Rome by Pius XI and asked to plan such a book.  PeterWust visits Meudon. Emmanuel Mounier frequents Meudon. October. First number of Vie Intellectuelle, in which publication Maritain played a decisive role. Maritain leaves chair of modern philosophy and assumes that of logic and cosmology.  March . Gabriel Marcel baptized. Ecumenical meetings at Meudon and at Berdiaev’s home. July. The Angelic Doctor published. October. The Clairvoyance of Rome. Jacques takes leave of absence to write major work.  Religion and Culture kicks off new series of books called Questions Disput ées, edited by Charles Journet and Jacques.   Sext  Friendship with Etienne Gilson begins. First visit, in company of Nicholas Nabokov, to Kolbsheim, chateau of Antoinette and Lexi Grunelius, eventual resting place of Raïssa and Jacques.  The Dream of Descartes and The Degrees of Knowledge published. June . Roseau d’Or is replaced by Les Iles, edited by Jacques with the assistance of Stanislas Fumet. September. Journée d’études of the Thomist Society at Juvisy on the topic of phenomenology. Edith Stein visits the Maritains.  First trip toToronto’s Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (directed by Gilson).Visits University of Chicago. May. On Christian Philosophy. “Christian Philosophy” is the theme of the French Philosophical Society: contributions by Jacques, Gilson, and Emile Bréhier. December. Du régime temporel et de la liberté (Freedom in the ModernWorld).  Pour le bien commun, statement by Maritain and others about repression of riots inVienna. Lectures in Rome at the Angelicum, at Nimegen, and at Santander in Spain on “Spiritual and Temporal Problems of a New Christianity .” Second visit to Canada and United States. Sept leçons sur l’être (A Preface to Metaphysics).  Frontiers of Poetry and Philosophy of Nature. Manifesto on war in Ethiopia. Letter on Independence. Science andWisdom.  July . Integral Humanism. Accused of being a Christian Marxist. Visits Argentina and Brazil.  Writes Manifesto of Protest by Catholic Writers against the Bombing of Guernica . Maritain declared Public Enemy Number  in Spain. Sept suppressed by ecclesiastical authorities. Foundation of Temps Present, in the first issue of which Jacques publishes“Profession of Faith.” Chronology   Stormy lecture, subsequently published: Les juifs parmi les nations (A Christian Looks at the Jewish Question). Signs many manifestos— against the Anschluss, against aerial bombing in Spain. Defended by Mauriac. Questions de conscience. October–November. United States, first visit to the University of Notre Dame.  Lecture, subsequently published: Le crépuscule de la civilisation (The Twilight of Civilization). Quatre essais sur l’esprit dans sa condition charnelle (Scholasticism and Politics). Attacked by Marcel De Corte and Paul Claudel. September . Declaration of War.  January .With Raïssa andVera, leaves France for America. ...