By F. J. Sheed

Sanity points straight towards sanctity. Sanity means, as F. J. Sheed explains, living in the real world, and the real world can be known only by the revelation of God. It is the business of theology to study that revelation; it is the vocation of mankind to accept that revelation and love the God who gives it. A mind blind to reality is incapable of loving life and living it to the full, subject to darkness and consigned to wretchedness. And because man cannot love what he does not know, Theology and Sanity offers a remedy to his ignorance with the indispensable minimum of theological training. First, Sheed treats of God as the human mind might discover Him for itself and as He has revealed Himself to mankind; second, he deals with the divinely established cosmos, considering creation, the Incarnation of God and redemption of man, and the reign of God which will follow the Last Judgment; and third, he examines what the life of man must be in the real world, giving special attention to the wonderful practicality of Catholic dogma and doctrine.

Seeing God everywhere and all things upheld by Him is not a matter of sanctity, but of plain sanity, because God is everywhere and all things are upheld by Him. (F. J. Sheed)

Applauded since its publication in 1946 as the best of Sheed’s many books, Theology and Sanity endures as an exemplar of the Catholic intellectual tradition, a singularly excellent entry in the study of God, and a peerless presentation of the Catholic life and the Catholic vision. 

F. J. Sheed (1897–1981) was a writer, publisher, and speaker, widely recognized as one of the most important Christian intellectuals of the twentieth century. With his wife, Maisie Ward, he founded the publishing house of Sheed & Ward, which revived the Catholic literary movement and promoted innumerable intellectual, literary, and artistic treasures of the Catholic Church.

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Paperback: 406pp.

ISBN: 978-1685954819