id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2580 Jacques Maritain - Wikipedia .html text/html 6922 1024 63 The same pope had seriously considered making him a lay cardinal, but Maritain rejected it.[2] Maritain's interest and works spanned many aspects of philosophy, including aesthetics, political theory, philosophy of science, metaphysics, the nature of education, liturgy and ecclesiology. Tracey Rowland, a theologian at the University of Notre Dame (Australia) has argued that the lack of a fully developed philosophy of culture in Maritain and others (notably Rahner) was responsible for an inadequate notion of culture in the documents of Vatican II and thereby for much of the misapplication of the conciliar texts in the life of the church following the council.[20] Maritain's political theory has been criticized for a democratic pluralism that appeals to something very similar to the later liberal philosopher John Rawls' conception of an overlapping consensus of reasonable views. The Social and Political Philosophy of Jacques Maritain (1955) The Philosophy of Jacques Maritain (1953) ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2580.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2580.txt