Jacques Maritain in the 21st Century: Personalism and the Political Organization of the World by Walter Schultz

Reviewed by Christopher S. Morrissey This handsome hardcover volume contains a collection of essential studies by the Jacques Maritain scholar Walter Schultz. It offers readers a splendid synoptic view of the trajectory of Schultz’s academic work, from his Ph.D. dissertation on Maritain’s social thought to his discovery of the project of Rabbi Mark S. Kinzer and its potential harmonization with Maritain’s own. The collection thus builds to a crescendo, concluding with two studies by Schultz of the thought of Maritain in relation to Kinzer, which first appeared in the pages of Kesher (Su