Thomas Aquinas or John Henry Newman? The Intellectual Itinerary of Johannes Willebrands

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments VII
3. Table of Contents IX
4. Into Neo-Thomism: Reading the Fabric of an Intellectual Movement 1
5. Part I .Shaping A New Society
6. The Thomist Debate over Inequality and Property Rights in Depression-Era Europe 21
7. Religion, human rights and democracy in post-1940 France in theory and practice: from Maritain’s Thomism to Vignaux’s secular realism 39
8. Epistemological Tracks: On Religion, Words, and Buildings in 1950’s Belgium 59
9. When Personalism Met Planning: Jacques Maritain and a British Christian Intellectual Circle, 1937–1949 77
10. Part II. Encountering Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Aesthetics
11. Neo-Scholasticism, Phenomenology, and the Problem of Conversion 113
12. A Great Deal of Controversy? A Case Study of Dondeyne, Grégoire, and Moeller Integrating Phenomenology and Existentialism in Louvain Neo-Thomism 131
13. Gilson’s Poietics 159
14. Part III. Reconciling Science and Religion
15. Psychology from a Neo-Thomist Perspective. The Louvain-Madrid Connection 181
16. Science contra Science. The Battle for Legitimate Knowledge in the Spanish Catholic Journals in the Early Twentieth Century 205
17. Part IV. Mediating Tradition
18. The Analogy of Marshall McLuhan 231
19. Vetera Novis Augere: Neo-Scholastic Philosophers and Their Concepts of Tradition 255
20. Thomas Aquinas or John Henry Newman? The Intellectual Itinerary of Johannes Willebrands 281
21. About the Authors 301
22. Index of Persons 305