Catholicism: On “Certain Ideas”
Georges Chantraine“The Church concentrates spirits and broadens them. In this she is catholic. She is ‘the concrete place of hope.’”
Winter 2008
Henri de Lubac's Catholicism at 70 Years
Henri de Lubac on Nature and Grace: A Note on Some Recent Contributions to the Debate
Nicholas J. Healy Jr.“Our natural desire for God entails a renunciation both of self-sufficiency and of demand. To want a gratuitous friendship is also to want to be surprised, and so to refuse to know in advance the actual shape of that gratuity.”
Church, Eucharist, and Predestination in Barth and de Lubac: Convergence and Divergence in Communio
Aaron Riches"Communion and sacrifice are mutually constitutive."
Duplex Hominis Beatitudo
Henri de Lubac“Beatitude is twofold: the first is ‘natural’ and the second is ‘supernatural.’”
The Total Meaning of God and the World
Henri de Lubac“To remind man what constitutes his final end is not to tell him something that substantially fails to interest him. . . . It is rather to illuminate the total meaning of his being by helping him to find and then to interpret the inscription written into his heart by his Creator.”
Primacy and Collegiality in the Works of Joseph Ratzinger
Richard G. DeClue“If the bishop of Rome enjoys any primacy whatsoever, it is only because the Church as a whole is primary.”