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Loading... Brief Catechesis on Nature and Graceby Henri de Lubac
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Solid on nature vs/& grace, but as with so much post-Vatican II writing, Lubac struggles to position himself just a little to the right of Hans Kung, and ends up slip-sliding down a hill he surely did not want to slip-slide down, rhetorically at least, and ends up doing too much 'it's dreadful that millions of people have been crushed by social systems, but let's not forget that they probably masturbated, and so...' As ever, we need to make sure that the important thing follows the 'but,' rather than preceding it. Of course, remember that sin and guilt are always individual, but that pales into insignificance beside the duty to help those who suffer through no fault of their own. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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This book, written after the Second Vatican Council and toward the end of de Lubac's long life, summarizes and extends key ideas he sought to recover from the classical sources of early and medieval Christianity. De Lubac revisits the theme of his work, Surnatural, as well as its development in his later works, while addressing issues of the post-Vatican II era. Confronted with distortions of Christian teaching, de Lubac repudiates the extremes of, on the one hand, radically opposing nature and grace, as if the grace were entirely alien to nature, and on the other hand, of radically confusing them. No library descriptions found. |
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