there is “natural desire for the supernatural.” Or more precisely, de Lubac maintained that belief in the existence of a “natural desire for the supernatural” was traditional, that this belief had been held by many thinkers before Thomas Aquinas, and that it was held by Aquinas himself. His opponents, the neo-scholastics, who considered themselves to be following St. Thomas, denied that there could be a natural desire for the supernatural, or that Thomas maintained that there was such a thing. The