ANNALES DE PHILOSOPHIE CHRÉTIENNE. - A journal founded in 1830 by A. Bonnetty (1798–1879), who retained its editorship until his death and was, together with L. de Bonald, L. Bautain, and the early H. F. Lamennais, one of the principal supporters of traditionalism in France.
It sought to represent a kind of reaction against the prevailing rationalism and, in opposition to the exaggerated claims of reason, set forth revealed doctrine, handed down to us by tradition, as the true source of truth; however, it depreciated human reason too greatly, even holding it incapable of attaining any truth in religious and moral matters.
Bonnetty was reprimanded by the Congregation of the Index (1855) and obliged to subscribe to four propositions condemning the extreme principles of traditionalism. Bonnetty complied scrupulously. In 1895 the A. passed under the editorship of C. Denis, and the new tendency of immanence or action began to assert itself in them (v. IMMANENTISMO).
Denis was assisted by brilliant writers—M. Blondel, L. Canet, V. HERMON, E. Le Roy, H. Brémond, G. Tyrrell—and when the A. passed, in 1905, into the hands of L. Laberthonnière, a new programme was indeed published, but the orientation 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 all publication. The A. then ceased publication.