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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...

Others destroy the gratuity of the supernatural order, since God, they say, cannot create intellectual beings without ordering and calling them to the beatific vision. Humani Generis, August 12, 19503 Le Surnaturel, c’est du réel précis. Robert Bresson, film director4 The above sequence of quotations traces in outline the theological and personal drama of the life of Henri de Lubac. In the first, we have the patristic and high mediaeval paradox of the supernatural which de Lubac sought to recover:
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