books by Henri de Lubac

books by Henri de Lubac

books:

Henri de Lubac

Henri De Lubac

Ignatius Press, 1987

Let the Paradox Be
Here, written as snippits, the late de Lubac pounds on the anvil with a velvet hammer on subjects such as: spirit, truth, suffering, faith etc., that one is amazed, and in many cases overwhelmed by the simplicity and clarity of his thought. This in an age where people ...

The Cantata of Love: A Verse by Verse Reading of the Song of Songs

Blaise Arminjon

Ignatius Pr, 1988

An Unknown Pearl of Great Price
It's a shame that this amazing book from Ignatius Press is not more widely known, though perhaps the 2nd printing in 2005 will ameliorate that somewhat. This is a masterful verse-by-verse exegesis of the Song of Songs, arguably the most commentated book in Scripture. ...

Splendor of the Church

Henri De Lubac

Ignatius Pr, 1999

Lots and lots of footnotes!
The ideas that de Lubac expresses in The Splendor of the Church largely impacted the second Vatican Council. de Lubac's main thesis is that the hierarchy as well as the laity is the Church, not just the hierarchy. He discusses this in depth as well as the Church's ...

Medieval Exegesis : The Four Senses of Scripture: Volume 2

Henri De Lubac

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2000

A successful ressourcement of the Fathers
"There are people who take great pains to twist the sense of the divine scriptures, and make everything written therein serve their own ends," the fourth-century Antiochene biblical scholar, Theodore of Mopsuestia once observed. "They dream up silly fables in their own ...

The Mystery of the Supernatural (Milestones in Catholic Theology)

Henri de Lubac

Herder & Herder, 1998

A Christian Paradox revisited
In this work Fr. DeLubac proposes to study what he posits to be one of the central paradoxes of Christianity; namely that man is disposed towards and deeply desires the Beatific Vision but, if left to his own means, is incapable of attaining this end. What Fr. ...

Corpus Mysticum: The Eucharist and the Church in the Middle Ages (ND Faith in Reason)
Henri de Lubac

University of Notre Dame Press, 2007

A great figure of 20th century Catholic theology, Henri Cardinal de Lubac SJ is renowned for his attention to the doctrine of the Church and its life within the contemporary world. In this book, de Lubac opens an initial exploration of the ways in which the Church has been understood Eucharistically, and gives new expression to that mystery in ...

History and Spirit: The Understanding of Scripture According to Origen

Henri De Lubac

Ignatius Press, 2007

De Lubac acquits Origen of his alleged 'allegorical violence' to the Bible
"The central feature of Origen's spirituality is an absolute and passionate love for the Logos, which has taken on personal lineaments for us in Jesus Christ, suffusing the total cosmos of men and angels... Origen finds him everywhere, and the entire Old Testament ...

Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man

Henri de Lubac

Ignatius Press, 1988

UT UNUM SINT
The idea that keeps recurring in this book is unity. Henri de Lubac brilliantly draws the theme of unity out of the sacraments, the Church, Dogma, etc, etc. What is refreshing about this book even though it is 60 years old is that unity is to be found within the ...

Christian Faith: An Essay on the Structure of the Apostles' Creed

Henri de Lubac

Ignatius Press, 1986

Some beautiful moments
Having read Catholicism and The Drama of Atheistic Humanism (De Lubac on top form), this book gives the impression that De Lubac's intellectual light had begun to fail. Nonetheless, there are some brilliant gems in here and let me just quote one: "God is not a ...

Drama of Atheist Humanism

Henri de Lubac

Ignatius Press, 1995

Great
This is the book that first got me interested in religion. It is an outstanding discussion of Comte, Marx & Nietzsche. After reading this, the reader may want to read Kung's Does God Exist? and Baum's Doctors of Modernity: Darwin, Marx & Freud.

The Motherhood of the Church: Followed by Particular Churches in the Universal Church

Henri de Lubac

Ignatius Pr, 1983

The Motherhood of the Church
The Motherhood of the Church: Followed by Particular Churches in the Universal Church The church teaching of motherhood of the church through bible, theology, and articles of saints. New insights of the role of the church.

More Paradoxes

Henri De Lubac

Ignatius Press, 2002

OK
Henri de Lubac wrote two works entitled Paradoxes and Further Paradoxes. They first were published in 1945 and 1955, and now available in a combined volume published by Ignatius, under the title Paradoxes of Faith. These works were quite interesting, containing many ...

Origen On First Principles: Being Koetschau's Text of the De Principiis Translated into English, Together ...

Origen

Peter Smith Publisher Inc, 1973

A critical edition of Origen's central work
This is the definitive English traslation of Koetschau's (please, Amazon, note the spelling!) edition of Origen's central work. Because the orginal Greek has been lost, it is necessary to reconstruct the original from fragments from all kinds of sources. This ...

The Discovery of God (Resourcement (Grand Rapids, Mich.)

Henri de Lubac

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996

Real-life theology from a master
Henri de Lubac (1896-1991,) son of a prominent banker, descended from the old gentry of the Ardèche region of south-central France. A born aristocrat in manner and appearance, a man of exquisitely simple elegance in everything he did and said, he joined the Jesuits at ...

Augustinianism and Modern Theology (Milestones in Catholic Theology)
Henri de Lubac

The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2000

This book is the companion volume to The Mystery of the Supernatural, focusing on a historical analysis of the genesis of the idea of pure nature, which arose in reaction to the distorted Augustinianism of nominalist theologians at the end of the Middle Ages. The discussion centers around the relation between grace and nature as formulated by ...