Henri de Lubac, S. J., was considered as one of the most important theologians of the twentieth century. Together with the works of other towering modern theologians (and friends) Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) and Hans Urs von Balthasar, the writings of de Lubac stand out as crucial to twentieth-century Catholicism. Among his other famous books are Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man, The Splendor of the Church, The Christian Faith, The Drama of Atheist Humanism, and The Motherhood of the Church.
For me, the encounter with this book became an essential milestone
on my theological journey. For in it de Lubac does not treat merely
isolated questions. He makes visible to us in a new way the
fundamental intuition of Christian Faith so that from this inner
core all the paricular elements appear in a new light.
-- Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVIFew of our living
authors have given us a work at once so profound, so apt and so
persuasive as this of the great French Jesuit. Certainly, few could
have written the book on the basis of such a rich knowledge of the
Christian tradition.... De Lubac's thought has the originality
which springs from the contact with a great tradition of a
brilliant, deep and charitable mind. And it has a contemporaneity
that bears witness to a profound, all-embracing, human concern.
-- Dom Christopher Butler, Abbot of DownsideWe cannot leave it
without referring to its almost incredible comprehensiveness of
view. De Lubac writes of the Church in such a way as to allow fully
for the truth there is in Protestant or Liberal views of the
Christian society.
-- Church Times
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