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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...

(Other important names are Jean Daniélou, M.-D. Chenu, Henry Bouillard, Yves Congar, and Gaston Fessard.) The initial aim was ressourcement—a recovery of the riches of Christian tradition, especially prior to 1300. The eventual aim though, was a renewal of speculative theology in a new mode that would restore its closeness to the exegetical, mystical, and liturgical reading of revealed signs. With the publication of Catholicisme in 1938, de Lubac produced one of the key texts of this movement: the
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