13 Facts About Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange

Reginald Marie Garrigou-Lagrange was a French philosopher, theologian and Dominican friar.

Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange has been noted as a leading neo-Thomist of the 20th century, along with Edouard Hugon and Martin Grabmann.

Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange taught at the Dominican Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas, the Angelicum, in Rome from 1909 to 1960.

Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange was born Gontran-Marie Garrigou Lagrange on 21 February 1877 in Auch, near Toulouse, France.

Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange joined the French Dominicans and studied and taught at Le Saulchoir before moving to Rome, where he lectured at the Angelicum from 1909 until his retirement in 1960.

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Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, the leading proponent of "strict observance Thomism", attracted wider attention when in 1946 he wrote against the Nouvelle Theologie theological movement, criticising elements of it as Modernist.

Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange is said to be the drafter of Pope Pius XII's 1950 encyclical Humani generis, subtitled "Concerning Some False Opinions Threatening to Undermine the Foundations of Catholic Doctrine".

In politics, like many neoscholastic theologians of his time, Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange was a strong supporter of the far-right movement Action Francaise and he sympathized with Vichy France.

Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange taught many eminent Catholic theologians during his academic career at the Angelicum.

Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange supervised the doctoral research of Marie-Dominique Chenu, who was ordained in 1919 and completed his doctorate in theology in 1920 with a dissertation entitled De contemplatione.

Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange is commonly held to have influenced the decision in 1942 to place the privately circulated book Une ecole de theologie: le Saulchoir by Marie-Dominique Chenu, O P, on the Vatican's "Index of Forbidden Books" as the culmination of a polemic within the Dominican Order between the Angelicum supporters of a speculative scholasticism and the French revival Thomists who were more attentive to historical hermeneutics.

Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange gave the retreat in Paris which attracted Yves Congar to leave the diocesan seminary in order to join the Dominicans.

Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange supervised the doctoral research of Maurice Zundel who completed his dissertation in 1927 with a dissertation entitled L'Influence du nominalisme sur la pensee chretienne.