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The Suspended Middle: Henri de Lubac and the Debate concerning the Supernatural is unavailable, but you can change that!

French Jesuit Henri de Lubac (1896–1991) was arguably the most revolutionary theologian of the twentieth century. He proposed that Western theology since the early modern period had lost sight of the key to integrating faith and reason—the truth that all human beings are naturally oriented toward the supernatural. In this vital book John Milbank defends de Lubac’s claim and pushes it to a more...

which showed how their refusal of pure nature, far from advocating a genuine natural desire for the supernatural, was really complicit with Cajetan’s acceptance of pure nature.1 Indeed, as de Lubac demonstrates, they took the latter process further, in so far as they could no longer see why the sinless Adam in Eden stood under any need for grace at all. This, for de Lubac, is the point where finally grace in the West ceases in any sense to be deification, because it no longer has to do fundamentally
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