Stephen Schloesser

Passion of Israel

History & Biography

“By assembling Maritain's writings, situating them chronologically within their historical contexts, and subjecting them to trenchant philosophical and theological analyses, Crane has produced an indispensable volume. More importantly, however, Crane's intellectual biography also provides an invaluable interpretive key that unifies the philosopher's thought and life. Beneath Crane's finely detailed surface narrative flows this powerful subterranean stream revealing an otherwise obscure coherence: as unimaginable horrors continued to unfold, Maritain had a deep need--perhaps a profoundly anxious one--for both reason and God in history.”