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Publication
Ignatius Press (1988), 443 pages
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LibraryThing member ericaustinlee
A truly gorgeous and faithful work of theology. Henri de Lubac is masterful at retrieving the patristic writings to speak to us today. Lubac's ability to compellingly narrate the Christian story within the Catholic tradition and his penchant for the paradoxical nature of Christianity shine forth in
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this classic work. This is a work that is worth returning to more than once. Show Less
LibraryThing member johnredmond
A very important book. Subtitle "Christ and the common destiny of Mankind" captures its value, even to current day Catholics. We have been influenced by an individualistic understanding of faith and salvation. ("Me and Jesus"). That isn't the traditional Catholic (or catholic) understanding and de
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Lubac goes back to scripture and the Church Fathers to demonstrate his point. Important for Catholics because our ecclesiology, sacraments and the centrality of the Eucharist all make much more sense in this context. Show Less
LibraryThing member stillatim
Pity the theologian, who seems to have two registers available to him or her: the impenetrably dry, and the unreadably kitsch. And what a pleasure to open, in fear and trembling, a long book of theology and discover someone who can write nice sentences, which are concise, and not cloying.
De Lubac
So, despite some awkward discussions of other religions, de Lubac's church is a very welcoming one: social, embedded in history, aware of its own past but also of its present, universal to an almost Origenist point, and most importantly of all, dialectical: "Protestantism... generally occurs as a religion of antitheses.. either rites or morals, authority or liberty, faith or works, nature or grace, prayer or sacrifice, Bible or pope... but Catholicism does not accept these dichotomies" (315).
De Lubac
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presents his church as a particularly social one, and though he often seems verge on worship of the church, rather than God, he does try his best to make the church itself broader than it might otherwise seem. The Catholic Church, in this book at least, is not curial bureaucracy, but, as his subtitle has it, a common destiny for the human species. So, despite some awkward discussions of other religions, de Lubac's church is a very welcoming one: social, embedded in history, aware of its own past but also of its present, universal to an almost Origenist point, and most importantly of all, dialectical: "Protestantism... generally occurs as a religion of antitheses.. either rites or morals, authority or liberty, faith or works, nature or grace, prayer or sacrifice, Bible or pope... but Catholicism does not accept these dichotomies" (315).
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Language
Original language
French
Physical description
443 p.; 5.34 inches
ISBN
0898702038 / 9780898702033
UPC
008987020387