however, have great influence on later Catholic thought, especially through ressourcement theologians such as Henri de Lubac. His wife died in 1919 and in 1927 he retired for health reasons. Between 1934 and 1937 he published a trilogy dedicated to thought, being and action. In 1935, he published an essay of concrete and integrale ontology "L'être et les êtres" (The Being and the Beings) and in 1946 he published "L'esprit chrétien" (The Christian Spirit). Blondel died in Aix-en-Provence in 1949. He was the younger brother of historian Georges Blondel and a first cousin of physicist André Blondel. Works L'Action: Essai d'une critique de la vie et d'une science de la pratique (Paris: Alcan, 1893); 2nd edn, Paris: PUF, 1950). Action (1893): Essay on a Critique of Life and a Science of Practice, trans. Oliva Blanchette (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984). Lettre sur les exigences de la pensée contemporaine en matiere d'aplogétique et sur la méthode de la philosophie dans l'étude du probleme religieux (1896) - commonly called La lettre in French, and the Letter on Apologetics in English The letter on apologetics and History and dogma, edited and translated by Alexander Dru and Illtyd Trethowan (London: Harvill Press, 1964) History and Dogma (1904) The letter on apologetics and History and dogma, edited and translated by Alexander Dru and Illtyd Trethowan (London: Harvill Press, 1964) L'être et les êtres – Essai d'ontologie concrète et intégrale (1935) [also PUF, 1963] L'ésprit chrétien (1946) Lettres philosophiques (Paris: Aubier, 1961) A nine-volume edition of the complete works of Blondel is being published. Two volumes (as of 2013) have been published. Oeuvres completes, i, ed Claude Troisfontaines (Paris: PUF, 1995) [which contains L'Action, as well as a minor Latin thesis on Leibniz which accompanied L'Action in Blondel's doctoral submissions] Oeuvres completes, ii, 1888-1913: La philosophie de l'action et la crise moderniste, ed Claude Troisfontaines (Paris: PUF, 1997) See also Modernism in the Catholic Church References Further reading Peter Henrici. Hegel und Blondel: Eine Untersuchung uber Form und Sinn der Dialektik in der 'Phanomenologie des Geistes' und der ersten 'Action'. Pullach bei Munchen: Berchmanskollege, 1958. Robert C. Koerpel. Maurice Blondel: Transforming Catholic Tradition. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018 John Milbank. Social Theory and Theology, Second Edition. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. See chapter 8. Andreas Uwe Mueller, Christlicher Glaube und historische Kritik. Maurice Blondel und Alfred Loisy im Ringen