Josef Pieper (1904–1997)

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1. Josef Pieper

   Author of Leisure: The Basis of Culture, Guide to Thomas Aquinas, Death and Immortality

2. Benedict XVI

   Author of In the Beginning...: A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall (Resourcement), Called to Communion: Understanding the Church Today, Behold the Pierced One

3. Pope John Paul II

   Author of Crossing the Threshold of Hope, Fides et Ratio / On the Relationship between Faith and Reason, Gift and Mystery: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of My Priestly Ordination

4. G. K. Chesterton

   Author of Orthodoxy, The Everlasting Man, Saint Francis of Assisi

5. Hilaire Belloc

   Author of Great Heresies, How the Reformation Happened, Hills and the Sea

6. James V. Schall

   Author of Another Sort of Learning, On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs: Teaching, Writing, Playing, Believing, Lecturing, Philosophizing, Singing, Dancin, Idylls and Rambles: Lighter Christian Essays

7. John Henry Newman

   Author of Apologia Pro Vita Sua, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar Of Assent

8. Etienne Gilson

   Author of The Christian Philosophy Of St Thomas Aquinas, God and Philosophy, Second edition, The Unity of Philosophical Experience

9. Jacques Maritain

   Author of Man and the State, Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry, Art and Scholasticism with Other Essays

10. Henri de Lubac

    Author of Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man, The Mystery of the Supernatural (Milestones in Catholic Theology), The Discovery of God

11. Christopher Dawson

    Author of Religion and the Rise of Western Culture, The Making of Europe, Crisis of Western Education

12. Hans Urs von Balthasar

    Author of Prayer, Dare We Hope "That All Men Be Saved"?: With a Short Discourse on Hell, New Elucidations

13. St. Thomas Aquinas

    Author of Aquinas's Shorter Summa: Saint Thomas's Own Concise Version of His Summa Theologica, On Being and Essence, Summa Contra Gentiles, Book 4

14. Ronald Arbuthnott Knox

    Author of Enthusiasm: A Chapter in the History of Religion : With Special Reference to the XVII and XVIII Centuries, The Hidden Stream: Mysteries of the Christian Faith, Pastoral and Occasional Sermons

15. Warren H. Carroll

    Author of The Building of Christendom, Last Crusade: Spain 1936, 1917: Red Banners White Mantle

16. Servais Pinckaers

    Author of The Sources of Christian Ethics, Morality: The Catholic View, The Pursuit of Happiness-God's Way: Living the Beatitudes

17. Alasdair MacIntyre

    Author of After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Second Edition, A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century, Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues (The Paul Carus Lectures)

18. Romano Guardini

    Author of The Lord, The End of the Modern World, The Spirit of the Liturgy (Milestones in Catholic Theology)

19. Peter Kreeft

    Author of Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion, A Refutation of Moral Relativism: Interviews With an Absolutist, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Heaven, but Never Dreamed of Asking

20. A.G. Sertillanges

    Author of The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods