For over four decades, John F. Crosby has been among the most original and influential voices in Christian personalism. In landmark works such as The Selfhood of the Human Person and Personalist Papers, he has illuminated the mystery at the heart of personalist philosophy: that each person is unique, unrepeatable, and incommunicable. His studies of John Henry Newman, Dietrich von Hildebrand, and Karol Wojtyła have shaped how a generation reads them. Through decades of teaching, scholarship, and mentorship, he has developed an account of selfhood, subjectivity, and dignity that continues to inform Catholic intellectual life.
Edited and introduced by Mark K. Spencer, this volume gathers essays in which friends, colleagues, and students engage, extend, and at times contest Crosby’s thought. A biography by his son John Henry Crosby, founder of the Hildebrand Project, opens the collection with a personal and intellectual portrait. The essays move from personalism’s sources and principles through its live controversies to the person’s ultimate standing before God. The result is both a tribute to a singular philosopher and a contribution to the living tradition of personalism that John F. Crosby, as these pages attest, has faithfully entrusted to a new generation.
With contributions by
Rocco Buttiglione, Martin Cajthaml, Peter Colosi, Mariano Crespo, John Henry Crosby, Anthony T. Flood, Logan Paul Gage, Rabbi Mark Gottlieb, James A. Harold, Michael J. Healy, Nicholas J. Healy, Jr., Joseph LaPorte, Robert McNamara, Joshua Miller, Josef Seifert, Mark K. Spencer
Paperback, 340 pages
ISBN 978-1-939773-26-5
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