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American Reform – On Indifferentism and Liberalism, and the Opposite Doctrine of the Church — Garrigou-Lagrange, 1926

“Liberalism […] defends the civil liberty of every cult, as a condition of society not in itself disordered, but conforming to reason and the spirit of the Gospel, and as most useful. For although liberal Catholics admit that the Catholic Church was divinely instituted, they teach that full liberty must be granted to it, but that nothing more is owed to it.”>

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Colorized portrait of Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.

Editors’ Introduction

For those interested in the great renewal of scholasticism, ushered in the with the pontificate of Pope Leo XIII in Aeterni Patris, few names are as recognizable in the 20th century as Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange. He was a French Dominican theologian and philosopher, who taught at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas for fifty years, instructing from the years 1909-1959. In an attempt to make his writing more known, particularly to an English speaking audience, we are publishing a translated section of his manual on Divine Revelation. The third edition, which can be viewed below, was published in Latin in 1926. As for theological and philosophical manuals more broadly, as modern Catholics ought to realize, they are the antidote, in many ways, to the present crisis in the Church.

Originally published in The Journal of American Reform. Read original article