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Social Agitation and Spiritual Upheavals
Writing of the cultural and spiritual situation at the beginning of the last century, Henri de Lubac has aptly captured our present situation: “In the misleading calm that marked the last years of the liberal period, before the era of … Continue reading
Reactionary
The Catholic theologian Henri de Lubac was no reactionary. Quite the contrary, he was a man of great learning and heartfelt sympathy for those caught in the turmoil of history. In one instance, however, he was reactionary: “In examining this … Continue reading
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Henri de Lubac
“Even in these times of intoxication mingled with anxiety, amidst the most pressing necessities, it is the role of the Christian, a man among his brother men, buoyed up by the same aspirations and cast down by the same anxieties, … Continue reading
Henri de Lubac
All has taken place as if the normal domain of man, even the believing man, were the secular domain; as if it were understood in advance that, in order to interest men seriously, it was necessary to speak to them … Continue reading
Election Day Thoughts
“Cultures are constituted by the union of the living and the dead in rituals of living memory. Never before … has the authority of the past been sacrificed with a more conscious effort of forgetfulness. Forgetfulness is now the curricular … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, forgetfulness, forgetting, Henri de Lubac, memory, mission, Phillip Rieff, society, the Church
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Keeping Faith & Breaking Ground Episode 3: Nothing Remains Intact Without Effort
It is not safe to entrust a doctrinal treasure to the passivity of memory. Intelligence must play a part in its conservation, rediscovering it, so to speak, in the process. Fr. Henri de Lubac, S.J. Recorded in August 2009 at … Continue reading
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Tagged George Niederaurer, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac, Joseph Ratzinger, Michael Polanyi, René Girard, sacramentality
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Enthusiastically Ecclesisatic…
“For myself,” said Origen, “I desire to be truly ecclesiastic.” He thought – and rightly – that there was no other way of being a Christian in the full sense. And anyone who is possessed by a similar desire will … Continue reading
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False Prophets
“A false prophet is not one who predicts false things, but one whose guiding principle is not true … one who fondles the spirit of the age…. He takes up the cause of generous ideas just when these are beginning … Continue reading
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From the archives: Just Before Entering Holy Week
Just before entering into the spirit of Holy Week, however, I am prompted by a piece about the retrofitting of the Lord’s Prayer by a group calling itself the “Non-Theistic Liturgy Resources Working Group” at St. Stephen’s College in Edmonton, … Continue reading
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A Thirst for Communion
“The story is told of a priest who, shortly after apostatizing, said to a visitor who was about to congratulate him: ‘From now onward I am no more than a philosopher – in other words, a man alone.’ It … Continue reading
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