Goodreads asked Gregory B. Sadler:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Gregory B. Sadler Well, my most recent book isn't all that recent, but I'll answer this anyway, since it's an interesting story.

It all started with being sent some photocopied articles from 1930s French philosophy journals, with the suggestion that perhaps I ought to translate them. They had to do with a debate that was ongoing at that time, about the topic of Christian philosophy.

The short answer is that, the more that I started following out the connections between various Francophone authors concerned with the topic, and engaged with the debate, the more and more I discovered how vast the debates actually were, how little of the material from the debates had been translated into English, and how one-sided interpretations of it were over here in the Anglosphere.

So, I embarked on what ended up taking about 6 years from conception to publication - translation of many of the key documents, writing a 100 page historical introduction to the debates, and producing a massive chronological bibliography of materials from, about, continuing, or concerned with the topics of those 1930s Christian philosophy debates!

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