Marie-Benoît Schwalm

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Salvador Léopold Xavier Schwalm OP (14 October 1860 – 7 November 1908), better known by the religious name of Marie-Benoît Schwalm, was a French Roman Catholic priest, social reformer and theologian.

Biography

Salvador Schwalm was born at Nancy in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle. He joined the Dominican Order and was ordained a priest in 1883.[1] He later taught at the Dominican House of Studies in Flavigny.

A noted contributor to the Revue thomiste, he was an early critic of Laberthonnière's moral dogmatism. He was also one of the first to criticized the philosophy of Maurice Blondel,[2] soon followed by Ambroise Gardeil (1859–1931), Marie-Dominique Roland-Gosselin (1883–1934) and Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange (1877–1964), among others.

Marie-Benoît Schwalm died in the convent of the Dominican Sisters at Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes.

Works

  • Les Illusions de l'idéalisme et leurs dangers pour la foi (1896)
  • Le Dogmatisme du coeur et celui de l'esprit (1899)
  • Le Type social du paysan juif à l'époque de Jésus-Christ (1908)
  • L'Industrie et les artisans juifs à l'époque de Jésus-Christ (1909)
  • La Vie privée du peuple juif à l'époque de Jésus Christ (1910)
  • Le Christ d'après saint Thomas d'Aquin (1910; 1939)
  • Leçons de philosophie sociale (1910–1911)
  • Aux sources de l'activité intégrale (1911)
  • L'acte de foi est-il raisonnable? (1911)
  • La société et l'État (1937; with preface by Georges Viance)

Notes

  1. "Schwalm, Marie-Benoît," Dictionnaire biographique des frères prêcheurs.
  2. Bernardi, Peter J. (2009). Maurice Blondel, Social Catholicism, & Action Française: The Clash Over the Church's Role in Society During the Modernist Era. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press.

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