The Rev. Professor Eamonn O Higgins presents us with a book of astonishing erudition and profound philosophical depth…he leads us with competence and passion through several centuries of social and intellectual development of our societies to confront us with the great questions of the meaning and destiny of the human person, the love of man, and the love of God.

Rocco Buttiglione, member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences

Person-centered Politics is ‘a study that I judge to be a masterful account of how the understanding of the person lies at the heart of any serious attempt to understand the political and historical moment that we inhabit today. It draws skillfully on the rich tradition of Catholic theological and philosophical reflection that illuminates what is living and what is dead in modernity. Every chapter is brimming with powerful quotations and selections that the author has mined with great discernment. This is one of those rare texts that not only argues for the centrality of the person but actually demonstrates its significance in shaping the paradigmatic self-understanding of the civilization we all share. It actually points us toward the formation of what St. John Paul II denominated as a “civilization of love.” For all of the fractiousness and contentiousness of the world around us we begin to see that it contains within it the seeds of a profound inner renewal. To suggest all of this is quite an accomplishment for one book.

David Walsh, Catholic University of America