Henri de Lubac

Henri de Lubac, SJ Cardinal ( born February 20, 1896 in Cambrai, † September 4, 1991 in Paris) was a French Catholic theologian and Jesuit. Pope John Paul II created him a cardinal.

Life

Biography

De Lubac entered the Society of Jesus at October 9, 1913 and was ordained a priest in 1927. 1929 to 1961 he was professor of fundamental theology and religious history at the Institut Catholique in Lyon. During the Second World War, he was at times because of his participation in the French Resistance underground. In 1938, his programmatic work Catholicisme (Eng. 1943), the newly accentuated the universal salvific significance of the church from the theological tradition appeared. Since 1950 he had (especially Surnaturel 1946) because of his doctrine of grace by the Order eight years banned from teaching and in that time has published three books on Buddhism. Nevertheless chose Cardinal Pierre -Marie Gerlier, Archbishop of Lyon, him. His adviser at the Second Vatican Council On 2 February 1983, he was received by Pope John Paul II without prior episcopal ordination as deacon cardinal with the title of Santa Maria in Domnica diakonia in the College of Cardinals in order to appreciate his theological life's work. Even in 1969 Lubac had rejected the nomination as cardinal.

Work

Lubac considered together with Marie -Dominique Chenu, Jean Yves Congar Daniélou and as a pioneer of the Nouvelle théologie. They faced the problem of immutability and the historicity of truth in a new way, wanted the knowledge of God and the relationship between nature and grace, as well as to determine the non-Christian religions theologically and perform a dialogue with Marxism. This main themes of the Second Vatican Council were premeditated.

The theologians referred understood their "new" theology never in the sense, as if the tradition of the Church from now irrelevant and theology "reasonable" only in the context of current scientific knowledge possible. Lubac remembered rather that just creates the Catholic dogma Community (Latin for " communion ").

Lubac influenced in German-speaking countries, especially the theologian Karl Rahner, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Joseph Ratzinger, Karl Lehmann, Erhard Kunz and Walter Kasper. A lot of attention on theological experts but also in medieval studies and his monumental compendium ( médiévale exegesis: les quatre sens de l' écriture, Paris from 1959 to 1964 ) on the history of the fourfold sense of scripture, which builds on preliminary studies since the late 1940s.

The post-conciliar crisis prompted Lubac, much to argue again in favor of tradition. So he diagnosed: " The tradition of the Church is misunderstood and only felt as a burden. (...) This tradition, which is received in faith and continue in the faith, provides one measure one's own personal ' reflection ' answer. "

Works

• Crisis to salvation: an opinion on the post-conciliar tradition oblivion. Dt. Übers of Karl Hermann Bergner. 2nd, revised. Ed Berlin: Morus 2002 ( L' église dans la crise actuelle ) ISBN 3-87554-372-6.
• The Divine Revelation: Comment on Preface and the first chapter of the Dogmatic Constitution " Dei Verbum ," the Second Vatican Council. Freiburg: Johannes -Verl.. Einsiedeln 2001 (Theologia Romanica; 26 ) (La révélation divine ) ISBN 3-89411-369-3
• Typology, allegory, spiritual sense: Studies in the History of the Christian interpretation of Scripture. From the Französ. speak. and inlaid. by Rudolf Voderholzer. . Freiburg: John 1999 (Theologia Romanica; 23) ISBN 3-89411-357- X
• My writings in retrospect. With e Vorw by Christoph Schönborn. Transmit by Manfred Lochbrunner et al. Einsiedeln, Freiburg: John 1996 (Theologia Romanica; 21) ( Mémoire sur l' occasion de mes Écrits ) ISBN 3-89411-337-5
• Corpus mysticum: Church and Eucharist in the Middle Ages; a historical study. Transmit by Hans Urs von Balthasar. Freiburg, Einsiedeln: Johannes 1995, ISBN 3-89411-161-5.
• Schleiermacher, Fichte, Hölderlin Übers by Alexander G [ Arcia ] Düttmann. In: typology. Boarding. Contributions to poetics.. Frankfurt am Main, 1988 - pp. 338-356 ( First in La postérité spiritual de Joachim de Flore Part 1: De Joachim à Schelling - Paris [ua ], 1979 - pp. 327-342. )
• Faith from love. Catholicisme (2nd German edition of the French work of 1938, Einsiedeln 1970), 3rd edition Einsiedeln: Johannes 1992.
• Spirit of the story. The understanding of scripture of Origen. Transmit and Introduced by Hans Urs von Balthasar. Einsiedeln: Johannes 1968.
• French bibliography
• The tragedy of humanism without God, Feuerbach, Nietzsche, Comte and Dostoevsky as prophet. Dt. Übers by Eberhard Steinacker. Salzburg: Otto Müller Verlag, 1950 ( Le Drame De L' Humanisme Atheé ).