He was a member of the Pontifical Commission on Justice and Peace at the Vatican, 1977-82; and of the National Council on the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1984-90.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe most remarkable feature of Fr. Schall as a thinker is the way he has internalized the Catholic intellectual tradition,\u201d said V. Bradley Lewis, Associate Professor in the School of Philosophy and Fellow at the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America. \u201cHe has often seemed to me to be that tradition incarnate. His erudition is enormous, and his powers of synthesis are extraordinary. He has always been one of the first persons you wanted to hear discuss any significant development because you knew he would be able to think about it in the context of his command of the tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was true especially of political matters and issues of political theory, Lewis said. Fr. Schall was \u201cone of the very few really deep explicitly Catholic political thinkers around because he has such a deep knowledge of the history of political philosophy itself, but also of the specifically Catholic political thinkers.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEven in retirement, books, columns, and articles have continued to come at a dizzying pace,\u201d said Bradley Lewis.<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., noted political philosopher, dead at 91 https:\/\/t.co\/0eJTelfsEV<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/cvk9OvSGFJ<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Aleteia (@AleteiaEN) April 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n