Reading Groups

Graduate Maritain Fellows Reading Group

The Maritain Center is pleased to announce a new reading group, focusing on Jacques Maritain's The Primacy of the Spiritual. Originally published in 1927, the year following Pope Pius XI's condemnation of Action Française, The Primacy of the Spiritual is one of Jacques Maritain's earliest political works. Themes discussed by Maritain in this work include the distinction between the temporal and spiritual powers, the subordination of the temporal to the spiritual, the role of the Church in society, the pre-eminence of contemplation, and the concepts of "direct" and "indirect" power in relation to the powers of the Church and state.

This reading group will hold its first meeting on Friday, January 23, at 1:30 pm in the Maritain Library (Geddes 437). Books are available, free of charge, for pick-up at the desk of Geddes 430.

Questions? Contact the group's organizer, Nicholas Ramirez