Emmanuel Mounier

was the primary inspiration for post-war Christian democracy and instigator of the philosophy of personalism, which in combination with more traditional Thomistic philosophy was favoured by Pope John Paul II.

He was the editor of a journal called Esprit- Spirit. Here is a 1936 edition. "Special Number for a New Order in Belgium" which also talks about the Third Force of Way. Hitler was also talking about the Third Way at the time (rhetoric later used by Tony Blair to emphasise his liberation from political categories of left and right), so no surprise that Mounier was a collaborator during the war.

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