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James V. Schall

August 25, 2023

James Vincent Schall SJ (January 20, 1928 – April 17, 2019)[1] was an American Jesuit Roman Catholic priest, teacher, writer, and philosopher. He was Professor of Political Philosophy in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. He retired from teaching in December 2012, giving his final lecture on December 7, 2012, at Georgetown;[2] it was entitled "The Final Gladness," and was sponsored by the Tocqueville Forum.[3] has been described as "a reflection on different aspects of lifelong learning" by the National Catholic Register.[4]

The Reverend

James V. Schall

SJ
Born
James Vincent Schall

(1928-01-20)January 20, 1928
Pocahontas, Iowa, U.S.
DiedApril 17, 2019(2019-04-17) (aged 91)
Los Gatos, California, U.S.
OccupationAcademic
Known forPhilosopher, author, professor, priest

Biography Edit

Born in Pocahontas, Iowa, and educated in local public schools, he graduated from Knoxville (Iowa) High School in 1945.

After time in the U.S. Army (1946–47), he joined the Society of Jesus (California Province) in 1948, and then attended Santa Clara University in California. He earned an MA in Philosophy from Gonzaga University in 1955.[5] He earned a PhD in Political Theory from Georgetown University in 1960, and was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in 1963. In 1964, he earned an M.A. in Sacred Theology from Santa Clara University.

Schall was a member of the faculty of the Institute of Social Sciences, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, from 1964 to 1977, and a member of the Government Department, University of San Francisco, from 1968 to 1977. Among the sources for Schall's lectures were Christian Scripture, Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, G.K. Chesterton, and Pope Benedict XVI.[4]

Before retiring, he was a member of the Government Department at Georgetown University since 1977. In 1993, 2004 and 2010, Schall was presented the Edward B. Bunn, SJ, Award for Faculty Excellence by the senior class in the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown University.[6]

Schall retired from his position at Georgetown in December 2012 and moved into the Jesuit retirement home in Los Gatos, California (on the same property as the location of his old novitiate) where he continued to write books and articles for publications and websites.[4] He also continued to give presentations to small groups on request.[4]

Schall served as a member of the Pontifical Commission on Justice and Peace, in Rome from 1977 to 1982. He was also a member of the National Council of the Humanities, and a member of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1984 to 1990.[5]

He wrote more than 30 books and edited or co-edited 8 others. By July 2002, his website listed his authorship of 356 essays, 148 book reviews, and 660 columns, including his monthly column, "Sense and Nonsense," for the Catholic journal Crisis, and his columns in Gilbert! magazine, the Saint Austin Review, and the University Bookman.[7]

Schall was an expert on the thought of G. K. Chesterton; he edited two volumes of Chesterton's collected works and wrote his own volume of essays on the Catholic convert.

Schall was a vigorous supporter of Benedict XVI's critique of western culture which categorizes it as a "dictatorship of relativism".[4] Schall taught that Catholicism is where "Revelation is addressed to reason" and stated that "We are living in a time where the logic of disorder is at work, rejecting systematically the logic of being a human being."[4] Schall stated that the societal re-examination of the definition of the family "is not just an accident," but is the culture "rejecting heavenly answers and replacing them with human answers. A will is leading you, and it says there is something wrong with being human. That goes back to the whole drama of the Fall. C.S. Lewis says the ultimate sin, the ultimate disorder, is to say what is good is bad, what is bad is good."[4] A reporter summed up his statements as "If we [in society] reject the intelligibility and goodness of creation, will we still be able to hear God’s voice calling us to our supernatural end?"[4]

Schall survived a few major illnesses, including one that resulted in the loss of function in one of his eyes. In the summer of 2010 he had a cancerous jawbone and its attached teeth removed and replaced with bone taken from his leg.[8]

Writings (selection) Edit

Books

  • Reason, Revelation, and the Foundations of Political Philosophy (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1967) ISBN 0807113034
  • Redeeming the Time (New York: Sheed & Ward, 1968) LC 68-13845 ASIN: B0006BUD2I
  • Human Dignity and Human Numbers (Staten Island, NY: Alba House, 1971) ISBN 0-8189-0217-5
  • Play On: From Games to Celebrations (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1971) ISBN 0-8006-0173-4
  • The Sixth Paul (Canfield, OH: Alba Books, 1977) ISBN 0-8189-1147-6
  • Welcome, number 4,000,000,000! (Canfield, OH: Alba Books, 1977) ISBN 0-8189-1145-X
  • The Praise of "Sons of Bitches": On the Worship of God by Fallen Men (Slough, England: St Paul Publications, 1978) ISBN 0-85439-145-2
  • Christianity and Life (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1981) ISBN 0-89870-004-3
  • Christianity and Politics (Boston: St. Paul Editions, 1981) ISBN 0-8198-1407-5
  • Church, State, and Society in the Thought of John Paul II (Chicago: Franciscan Herald, 1982) ISBN 0-8199-0838-X
  • Liberation Theology (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1982) ISBN 0-89870-006-X
  • The Politics of Heaven and Hell: Christian Themes from Classical, Medieval, and Modern Political Philosophy (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984) ISBN 0-8191-3992-0
  • Unexpected Meditations Late in the XXth Century (Quincy, IL: Franciscan Press, 1985) ISBN 0-8199-0885-1
  • Another Sort of Learning (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1988) ISBN 0-89870-183-X
  • Religion, Wealth, and Poverty (Vancouver, B. C.: Fraser Institute, 1990) ISBN 0-88975-112-9
  • What Is God Like?: Philosophers and 'Hereticks' on the Triune God: The Sundry Paths of Orthodoxy from Plato, Augustine, Samuel Johnson, Nietzsche, Camus, and Flannery O'Connor, even unto Charlie Brown and the Wodehouse Clergy (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press/Michael Glazer, 1992) ISBN 0-8146-5020-1
    • An edition of What Is God Like? was published in Manila, P.I., by St. Paul's, 1995. ISBN 971-504-338-0
  • Does Catholicism Still Exist? (Staten Island, NY: Alba House, 1994) ISBN 0-8189-0694-4
  • Idylls and Rambles: Lighter Christian Essays (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1994) ISBN 0-89870-456-1
  • At the Limits of Political Philosophy: From "Brilliant Errors" to Things of Uncommon Importance (Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 1996) ISBN 0-8132-0832-7; paperbound, ISBN 0-8132-0922-6
  • Jacques Maritain: The Philosopher in Society (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997) ISBN 0-8476-8683-3
  • Schall on Chesterton: Timely Essays on Timeless Paradoxes (Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 2000) ISBN 0-8132-0963-3
  • On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2001) ISBN 1-882926-63-3
  • Reason, Revelation, and Human Affairs: Selected Writings of James V. Schall, Marc D. Guerra, editor (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2001) ISBN 0-7391-0198-6
  • Roman Catholic Political Philosophy (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006) ISBN 0-7391-1703-3
  • Sum Total Of Human Happiness (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, 2006) ISBN 1-58731-810-5
  • The Order of Things (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2007) ISBN 1-58617-197-6
  • The Regensburg Lecture (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, 2007) ISBN 1-58731-695-1
  • The Life of the Mind: On the Joys and Travails of Thinking (Wilmington, DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2008) ISBN 1-933859-61-X
  • The Mind That Is Catholic: Philosophical & Political Essays (Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 2008) ISBN 0-8132-1541-2
  • The Classical Moment: Selected Essays on Knowledge and Its Pleasures (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, Dec 15, 2010) ISBN 1-58731-124-0
  • The Modern Age (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, Dec 10, 2010) ISBN 1-58731-510-6
  • Reasonable Pleasures: The Strange Coherences of Catholicism (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2013) ISBN 978-1-58617-787-4

Pamphlets

  • A Journey through Lent (London: The Catholic Truth Society, 1976) 24pp.
  • The Catechism of the Catholic Church (Leesburg, VA.: Catholic Home Studies Institute, 1993). 22pp.
  • Ethics and Economics (Grand Rapids, MI: Acton Institute, 1998) 40pp. ASIN: B000GT3QW4
  • A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning (Wilmington, DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2000) 66pp. ISBN 1-882926-53-6

Edited with introduction

  • The Whole Truth about Man: John Paul II to University Students and Faculties. (Boston: St. Paul Editions, 1981) ISBN 0-8198-8201-1
  • Sacred in All Its Forms: John Paul II on Human Life (Boston: St. Paul Editions, 1984) ISBN 0-8198-6845-0
  • Essays on Christianity and Political Philosophy. with George Carey. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984) ISBN 0-8191-4275-1
  • Out of Justice, Peace. Pastorals of the German and French Bishops. (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1984) ISBN 0-89870-043-4
  • G. K. Chesterton, Collected Works, Vol. IV, What's Wrong with the World, etc. (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1986) ISBN 0-89870-147-3
  • Studies on Religion and Politics. with Jerome J. Hanus. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986) ISBN 0-8191-5391-5
  • On the Intelligibility of Political Philosophy: Essays of Charles N. R. McCoy. with John Schrems. (Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 1989) ISBN 0-8132-0679-0
  • G. K. Chesterton, Collected Works, Vol. XX, Christendom in Dublin, Irish Impressions, the New Jerusalem, etc. (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2002) ISBN 0-89870-854-0

References Edit

  1. ^ Burger, John (April 17, 2019). "Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., noted political philosopher, dead at 91". Aletia. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  2. ^ . Georgetown University. Archived from the original on May 30, 2013.
  3. ^ Blosser, Christopher (December 18, 2012). "Against The Grain: Fr. Schall's last lecture: "The Final Gladness"". christopherblosser.blogspot.com. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Desmond, Joan Frawley (August 8, 2013). . National Catholic Register. EWTN News. Archived from the original on April 17, 2019. Retrieved October 3, 2014.
  5. ^ a b "James V. Schall, S.J. Professor". Georgetown University. Retrieved July 11, 2014.
  6. ^ . Georgetown University. Archived from the original on June 9, 2010. Retrieved December 3, 2010.
  7. ^ . Georgetown University. Archived from the original on September 29, 2011. Retrieved December 3, 2010..
  8. ^ Weigel, George (July 28, 2010). "In Praise of Father Schall". First Things. Retrieved April 18, 2019.

External links Edit

  • Fr. Schall's website at Georgetown University January 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  • Fr. Schall's other website
  • Fr. Schall's articles, at The Catholic Thing
  • Fr. Schall's articles, at Crisis Magazine

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James Vincent Schall SJ January 20 1928 April 17 2019 1 was an American Jesuit Roman Catholic priest teacher writer and philosopher He was Professor of Political Philosophy in the Department of Government at Georgetown University He retired from teaching in December 2012 giving his final lecture on December 7 2012 at Georgetown 2 it was entitled The Final Gladness and was sponsored by the Tocqueville Forum 3 has been described as a reflection on different aspects of lifelong learning by the National Catholic Register 4 The ReverendJames V SchallSJBornJames Vincent Schall 1928 01 20 January 20 1928Pocahontas Iowa U S DiedApril 17 2019 2019 04 17 aged 91 Los Gatos California U S OccupationAcademicKnown forPhilosopher author professor priest Contents 1 Biography 2 Writings selection 3 References 4 External linksBiography EditBorn in Pocahontas Iowa and educated in local public schools he graduated from Knoxville Iowa High School in 1945 After time in the U S Army 1946 47 he joined the Society of Jesus California Province in 1948 and then attended Santa Clara University in California He earned an MA in Philosophy from Gonzaga University in 1955 5 He earned a PhD in Political Theory from Georgetown University in 1960 and was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in 1963 In 1964 he earned an M A in Sacred Theology from Santa Clara University Schall was a member of the faculty of the Institute of Social Sciences Pontifical Gregorian University Rome from 1964 to 1977 and a member of the Government Department University of San Francisco from 1968 to 1977 Among the sources for Schall s lectures were Christian Scripture Aristotle Plato Cicero Augustine Thomas Aquinas G K Chesterton and Pope Benedict XVI 4 Before retiring he was a member of the Government Department at Georgetown University since 1977 In 1993 2004 and 2010 Schall was presented the Edward B Bunn SJ Award for Faculty Excellence by the senior class in the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown University 6 Schall retired from his position at Georgetown in December 2012 and moved into the Jesuit retirement home in Los Gatos California on the same property as the location of his old novitiate where he continued to write books and articles for publications and websites 4 He also continued to give presentations to small groups on request 4 Schall served as a member of the Pontifical Commission on Justice and Peace in Rome from 1977 to 1982 He was also a member of the National Council of the Humanities and a member of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1984 to 1990 5 He wrote more than 30 books and edited or co edited 8 others By July 2002 his website listed his authorship of 356 essays 148 book reviews and 660 columns including his monthly column Sense and Nonsense for the Catholic journal Crisis and his columns in Gilbert magazine the Saint Austin Review and the University Bookman 7 Schall was an expert on the thought of G K Chesterton he edited two volumes of Chesterton s collected works and wrote his own volume of essays on the Catholic convert Schall was a vigorous supporter of Benedict XVI s critique of western culture which categorizes it as a dictatorship of relativism 4 Schall taught that Catholicism is where Revelation is addressed to reason and stated that We are living in a time where the logic of disorder is at work rejecting systematically the logic of being a human being 4 Schall stated that the societal re examination of the definition of the family is not just an accident but is the culture rejecting heavenly answers and replacing them with human answers A will is leading you and it says there is something wrong with being human That goes back to the whole drama of the Fall C S Lewis says the ultimate sin the ultimate disorder is to say what is good is bad what is bad is good 4 A reporter summed up his statements as If we in society reject the intelligibility and goodness of creation will we still be able to hear God s voice calling us to our supernatural end 4 Schall survived a few major illnesses including one that resulted in the loss of function in one of his eyes In the summer of 2010 he had a cancerous jawbone and its attached teeth removed and replaced with bone taken from his leg 8 Writings selection EditBooks Reason Revelation and the Foundations of Political Philosophy Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press 1967 ISBN 0807113034 Redeeming the Time New York Sheed amp Ward 1968 LC 68 13845 ASIN B0006BUD2I Human Dignity and Human Numbers Staten Island NY Alba House 1971 ISBN 0 8189 0217 5 Play On From Games to Celebrations Philadelphia Fortress Press 1971 ISBN 0 8006 0173 4 The Sixth Paul Canfield OH Alba Books 1977 ISBN 0 8189 1147 6 Welcome number 4 000 000 000 Canfield OH Alba Books 1977 ISBN 0 8189 1145 X The Praise of Sons of Bitches On the Worship of God by Fallen Men Slough England St Paul Publications 1978 ISBN 0 85439 145 2 Christianity and Life San Francisco Ignatius Press 1981 ISBN 0 89870 004 3 Christianity and Politics Boston St Paul Editions 1981 ISBN 0 8198 1407 5 Church State and Society in the Thought of John Paul II Chicago Franciscan Herald 1982 ISBN 0 8199 0838 X Liberation Theology San Francisco Ignatius Press 1982 ISBN 0 89870 006 X The Politics of Heaven and Hell Christian Themes from Classical Medieval and Modern Political Philosophy Lanham MD University Press of America 1984 ISBN 0 8191 3992 0 Unexpected Meditations Late in the XXth Century Quincy IL Franciscan Press 1985 ISBN 0 8199 0885 1 Another Sort of Learning San Francisco Ignatius Press 1988 ISBN 0 89870 183 X Religion Wealth and Poverty Vancouver B C Fraser Institute 1990 ISBN 0 88975 112 9 What Is God Like Philosophers and Hereticks on the Triune God The Sundry Paths of Orthodoxy from Plato Augustine Samuel Johnson Nietzsche Camus and Flannery O Connor even unto Charlie Brown and the Wodehouse Clergy Collegeville MN The Liturgical Press Michael Glazer 1992 ISBN 0 8146 5020 1 An edition of What Is God Like was published in Manila P I by St Paul s 1995 ISBN 971 504 338 0 Does Catholicism Still Exist Staten Island NY Alba House 1994 ISBN 0 8189 0694 4 Idylls and Rambles Lighter Christian Essays San Francisco Ignatius Press 1994 ISBN 0 89870 456 1 At the Limits of Political Philosophy From Brilliant Errors to Things of Uncommon Importance Washington The Catholic University of America Press 1996 ISBN 0 8132 0832 7 paperbound ISBN 0 8132 0922 6 Jacques Maritain The Philosopher in Society Lanham MD Rowman amp Littlefield 1997 ISBN 0 8476 8683 3 Schall on Chesterton Timely Essays on Timeless Paradoxes Washington The Catholic University of America Press 2000 ISBN 0 8132 0963 3 On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs Wilmington DE ISI Books 2001 ISBN 1 882926 63 3 Reason Revelation and Human Affairs Selected Writings of James V Schall Marc D Guerra editor Lanham MD Lexington Books 2001 ISBN 0 7391 0198 6 Roman Catholic Political Philosophy Lanham MD Lexington Books 2006 ISBN 0 7391 1703 3 Sum Total Of Human Happiness South Bend IN St Augustine s Press 2006 ISBN 1 58731 810 5 The Order of Things San Francisco Ignatius Press 2007 ISBN 1 58617 197 6 The Regensburg Lecture South Bend IN St Augustine s Press 2007 ISBN 1 58731 695 1 The Life of the Mind On the Joys and Travails of Thinking Wilmington DE Intercollegiate Studies Institute 2008 ISBN 1 933859 61 X The Mind That Is Catholic Philosophical amp Political Essays Washington The Catholic University of America Press 2008 ISBN 0 8132 1541 2 The Classical Moment Selected Essays on Knowledge and Its Pleasures South Bend IN St Augustine s Press Dec 15 2010 ISBN 1 58731 124 0 The Modern Age South Bend IN St Augustine s Press Dec 10 2010 ISBN 1 58731 510 6 Reasonable Pleasures The Strange Coherences of Catholicism San Francisco Ignatius Press 2013 ISBN 978 1 58617 787 4Pamphlets A Journey through Lent London The Catholic Truth Society 1976 24pp The Catechism of the Catholic Church Leesburg VA Catholic Home Studies Institute 1993 22pp Ethics and Economics Grand Rapids MI Acton Institute 1998 40pp ASIN B000GT3QW4 A Student s Guide to Liberal Learning Wilmington DE Intercollegiate Studies Institute 2000 66pp ISBN 1 882926 53 6Edited with introduction The Whole Truth about Man John Paul II to University Students and Faculties Boston St Paul Editions 1981 ISBN 0 8198 8201 1 Sacred in All Its Forms John Paul II on Human Life Boston St Paul Editions 1984 ISBN 0 8198 6845 0 Essays on Christianity and Political Philosophy with George Carey Lanham MD University Press of America 1984 ISBN 0 8191 4275 1 Out of Justice Peace Pastorals of the German and French Bishops San Francisco Ignatius Press 1984 ISBN 0 89870 043 4 G K Chesterton Collected Works Vol IV What s Wrong with the World etc San Francisco Ignatius Press 1986 ISBN 0 89870 147 3 Studies on Religion and Politics with Jerome J Hanus Lanham MD University Press of America 1986 ISBN 0 8191 5391 5 On the Intelligibility of Political Philosophy Essays of Charles N R McCoy with John Schrems Washington The Catholic University of America Press 1989 ISBN 0 8132 0679 0 G K Chesterton Collected Works Vol XX Christendom in Dublin Irish Impressions the New Jerusalem etc San Francisco Ignatius Press 2002 ISBN 0 89870 854 0References Edit Burger John April 17 2019 Fr James V Schall S J noted political philosopher dead at 91 Aletia Retrieved April 17 2019 Father James Schall SJ to Give Last Lecture Georgetown University Archived from the original on May 30 2013 Blosser Christopher December 18 2012 Against The Grain Fr Schall s last lecture The Final Gladness christopherblosser blogspot com Retrieved December 30 2018 a b c d e f g h Desmond Joan Frawley August 8 2013 Georgetown s Father James Schall Has Retired or Has He National Catholic Register EWTN News Archived from the original on April 17 2019 Retrieved October 3 2014 a b James V Schall S J Professor Georgetown University Retrieved July 11 2014 The Edward B Bunn S J Award for Faculty Excellence Georgetown University Archived from the original on June 9 2010 Retrieved December 3 2010 Schall Chronological Bibliography Georgetown University Archived from the original on September 29 2011 Retrieved December 3 2010 Weigel George July 28 2010 In Praise of Father Schall First Things Retrieved April 18 2019 External links EditFr Schall s website at Georgetown University Archived January 26 2011 at the Wayback Machine Fr Schall s other website Fr Schall s articles at The Catholic Thing Fr Schall s articles at Crisis Magazine Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title James V Schall amp oldid 1141601851, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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