Francois Houtart

Doing Justice: Knowing God, Volume 4

Philosophy

“Anthony Mansueto in this new book continues to raise fundamental questions about the meaning of collective and individual life of humankind. Facing the multiple crises indicating the end of a system, it helps to find solutions for the collective life of human beings on the planet. He does it with remarkable philosophical knowledge.”

The Death of Secular Messianism

Theology

“Anthony Mansueto's book is an important contribution to the history of thought. He describes the roots and history of the contemporary world's 'civilization crisis' with an outstanding analytic mind and an encyclopedic knowledge of philosophy and the social sciences. This alone would be a considerable help in understanding the situation. But starting with those reflections, he goes further in studying what could be an answer to the crisis . . . This large synthesis, rigorously elaborated in a very clear language, is a milestone in contemporary social philosophy.”

The Ultimate Meaningfulness of the Universe: Knowing God, Volume 2

Science & Faith

“This book--linked with a never-ending search for unity among human rationality, social analysis, and personal faith--is no cheap apologetics. Based on philosophy of sciences and sociology of knowledge, with vast and profound documentation, it intends to rehabilitate critically metaphysics . . . This approach, according to the author, is no less rational than physical, biological, and social. It gives them a response and finally points to God's existence.”

The Ways of Wisdom

Theology

“Anthony Mansueto's The Ways of Wisdom reads the human adventure in spiritual terms--but without abandoning the material basis--as 'the desire to be God,' a project which he charts across civilizations and which he sees as embracing the Saeculum, East and West, as well as more traditionally religious projects. His argument is supported by an encyclopedic knowledge of history and philosophy and driven by personal engagement with the diverse spiritual and civilizational projects it discusses. The result joins existential vigor to a passionate search for the truth.”