Fraternity in Finitude

Falque deserves to be better known for several reasons: the verve of his writing, the quality of his insights, and the range of his erudition. In God, Flesh, and the Other (2008) he demonstrates command of the full library of patristic and medieval theologians. Yet he has also written extensively on the twists and turns of the French phenomenological tradition over the past century in The Loving Struggle (2014). More valuable still is the timeliness and freshness of his approach, a winning humility and openness that speaks beyond the usual choir of philosophers (and Christians). If Marion was the Catholic philosopher of the Benedict XVI papacy, it would be fair to see Falque as the one most akin to Pope Francis, and not only because of the book he cowrote with Laure Solignac, François Philosophe (2017).