ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author talks about the religious implications of literary and philosophical texts of Jacques Maritain. He was born at Paris in 1882. He studied both in France and at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. In 1906 he was converted from Protestantism to Catholicism. Subsequently, he immersed himself more and more in the study of St. Thomas' philosophy, and in time became known as one of the foremost Neo-Thomists. He has held many positions as a professor and lecturer, including a chair at the Institut Catholique de Paris, to which he was called in 1914, and a professorship in the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University, which he occupied from 1948 until his retirement. From 1945 to 1948, he was French ambassador to the Vatican. Of his extremely numerous publications, some of the more recent include St. Thomas Aquinas, Angel of the Schools, The Degrees of Knowledge, True Humanism, Scholasticism and Politics, and so on.
