The Sacred Monster of Thomism Christopher

The Sacred Monster of Thomism ChristopherThis the first full length study of the life and thought of the most influential Dominican theologian in the first half of the twentieth century, and the scourge of liberal theologians everywhere. Reginald Garrigou Lagrange taught at the Angelicum for fifty years and was the doctoral dissertation director for Pope John Paul II. The Sacred Monster of Thomism (as Fr. G L was called by Francois Mauriac) sketches the life of Garrigou and examines his

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