ANNALES DE PHILOSOPHIE CHRÉTIENNE. - A journal founded in 1830 by A. Bonnetty (1798–1879), who retained its direction until his death and, together with L. de Bonald, L. Bautain, and H. F. Lamennais in his early period, was one of the principal exponents of traditionalism in France.
It aimed to represent a kind of reaction to the prevailing rationalism and to the exaggerated claims of reason by opposing, as the true source of truth, the doctrine clothed and handed down to us by tradition; yet it went too far in demeaning human reason to the point of considering it incapable of attaining any truth in religious and moral matters.
Bonnetty was censured by the Congregation of the Index (1855) and compelled to subscribe to four propositions condemning the extreme principles of traditionalism. Bonnetty submitted to this rigorously. In 1895 the journal passed under the direction of C. Denis, and a new tendency toward immanence or action began to assert itself (v. AZIONE, philosophy of; IMMANENTISM).
Denis was assisted by notable contributors: M. Blondel, L. Canet, V. HERMON, E. Le Roy, H. Brémond, and G. Tyrrell. When the journal passed, in 1905, into the hands of L. Laberthonnière, a new program was published, but the editorial line remained unchanged. Consequently, the volumes from 1905 to 1913 were placed on the Index (decree of 5 May 1913), and Laberthonnière was ordered to refrain from further publication. The journal then ceased.