God the Unknown Saint Joseph The Persistence of Order

The Persistence of Order

obscuring the details of his life and work

Étienne Gilson (1884–1978) was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy and one of the premier Catholic intellectuals of the twentieth century

and its acceptance by the working classes in the years leading up to World War I

God the Unknown Saint Joseph The Persistence of OrderBy Victor White, O. P. Verily thou art a hidden God: God the Unknown makes these words from the Prophet Isaiah its lynchpin. Let one suppose, either consciously or unconsciously, that he has grasped God, and still must God elude him: God is always beyond the furthest advance one can make in knowledge about him. And yet the theologians task and the believers life retain their purpose. For the point of it all, as St. Thomas Aquinas attests, is that in