Posted on 10/11/2011 6:39:04 PM PDT by Salvation
I wondered about Buckley but figured it was because his writings and public appearances dealt with a wider range of issues, not primarily relating to matters of religion.
Thanks for the ping!
No, offense, but Wiegel isn’t a prominent intellectual. Does he even acknowledge any valid popes before or after Pope John Paul II?
Chesterton was British.
What part of ‘AMERICAN history’ is not getting through to you?
I don’t know that “intellectualism” is something a saint would deliberately seek after, but nonetheless, some of the saints would fit the general definition of an intellectual: someone with a significant output of ideas. Some have been great intellectuals: people with a prodigious output of excellent ideas. Thomas Aquinas, as you mentioned. St. Augustine. Pope John Paul II.
Ralph Martin (”The Fulfillment of All Desire”) might be an up and coming addition to the list.
John Senior is great.
I gather Chesterton didn't make the top-ten list because he wasn't an American.
He was not only a great apologist, but a great intellectual (IMHO) — a British one.
Here is a very good list of a few- some of these people were not born in the US but they were and are US citizens
Father Jon Hardon
Father William Most
Dr John Rao
Dietrich Von Hildebrand
Alice Von Hildebrand
Dorothy Day
I don’t think “in American history” requires that someone be born in the United States, but certainly that he did most of his work here, as opposed to simply visiting and/or having the work consumed, so to speak.
No Scott Hahn?
What about Bishop Fulton Sheen? Is he not considered an Intellectual??????? If not, why???
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