A Belief in Humanity: The Untold Story of Conciliar Humanism

“Father Carroll’s image of a symphony carries throughout this work. He helps us to hear the voices of seminal thinkers across the ages, who then resound in the Second Vatican Council and beyond. A Belief in Humanity reminds us how important the sapiential tradition of Catholic Intellectual Life continues to be. It reaffirms the ways that the Second Vatican Council needs to be heard in the twenty-first century and beyond.”


—Renee Kohler-Ryan, deputy executive dean, University of Notre Dame Australia





“Thomas Carroll has written an original book on a most interesting but underdeveloped idea from the Second Vatican Council: Conciliar Humanism. Artificial Intelligence, Transhumanism, and various other gnostic developments are calling into question common assumptions of what it means to be human. This book provides a robust response, drawing together the insights of the sapiential philosophical tradition. Highly recommended.”


—Paul Morrissey, president, Campion College Australia