Return to Chesterton Bourke Jacques Maritain reflects on Aquinas

Jacques Maritain reflects on Aquinas as “The Saint” whose study and scholarship was wholeheartedly dedicated to God

aims “to give that interpretative likeness which the canvas of the artist alone can reveal”—such also

understood in an indefinite sense or as somehow experienced

By Henri Daniel-Rops

Return to Chesterton Bourke Jacques Maritain reflects on AquinasBy Maisie Ward G. K. Chesterton was, in the words of George Bernard Shaw, a man of colossal genius. Fittingly, then, his biography could not be limited to a single work. In 1943, Maisie Ward published what Frances Chesterton called the definitive biography of her husband. Yet its seven hundred plus pages could not comprise the entirety of its subjects life, work, and influencehis genius. Untold quantities of new material arrived for Wards