Background
Sertillanges, Antonin-Dalmace was born on November 17, 1863 in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Sertillanges, Antonin-Dalmace was born on November 17, 1863 in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Dominican houses of study in Corsica and Spain.
1900-1918, Professor of Moral Philosophy, Institut Catholique, Paris.
Sertillanges is known as much for his works of theology and spirituality as for his strictly philosophical writings, and he is sometimes dismissed, quite wrongly, as a Catholic apologist. In fact he was a very independent and openminded exponent of Thomistic philosophy. Like many French thinkers of his generation he was strongly influenced by Bergson, with whom he was closely associated and on whom he wrote a number of books. His studies of Aquinas are models of enlightened scholarship and thought, and it is upon these that his high reputation still depends.