ABSTRACT
Gabriel Marcel was born in Paris on December 7, 1889. Marcel's undergraduate thesis had made a comparison between Coleridge and Schelling and his early writings indicate a profound acquaintance with Anglo-American philosophy of the early part of that century. Besides his work in philosophy, he has written several dramas and has also written a good deal of literary criticism. Philosophy that abstracted from empirical or concrete particular events received a shattering blow from these war experiences such that he mentions them with respect to his philosophical formation. The philosopher, however, cannot be satisfied with the use of the expression. It is plain that an adept of concrete philosophy is not necessarily a Christian. A concrete philosophy cannot fail to be magnetically attracted to the data of Christianity, perhaps without knowing it. For the Christian, there is an essential agreement between Christianity and human nature.
