The Discovery of GodIn this important volume one finds the ultimate justification for de Lubac's positions against the atheisms of East and West. The book stands as a gloss on this dictum of Thomas Aquinas: "In every act of thought and will, God is also thought and willed implicitly." Although his book provoked much controversy at the time of its original publication, de Lubac insisted that its intention was simply to draw on the double treasure of the phiosophia perennis and Christian experience in order "to lend a helping hand to a few people in their search for God." |
Contents
The Origin of the Idea of God | 15 |
The Affirmation of God | 35 |
The Proof of God | 57 |
The Knowledge of God | 87 |
The Ineffable God | 117 |
The Search for God | 145 |
God in Our Time | 177 |
Postscript | 205 |
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Page i - ... a broad intellectual and spiritual movement arose within the European Catholic community, largely in response to the secularism that lay at the core of the crisis. The movement drew inspiration from earlier theologians and philosophers such as Mohler, Newman, Gardeil, Rousselot, and Blondel, as well as from men of letters like Charles Peguy and Paul Claudel. The group of academic theologians included in the movement extended into Belgium and Germany, in the work of men like Emile Mersch, Dom...
Page ii - In keeping with that spirit, the series understands ressourcement as revitalization: a return to the sources, for the purpose of developing a theology that will truly meet the challenges of our time. Some of the features of the series, then, will be: • a return to classical (patristic-mediaeval) sources; • a renewed interpretation of St. Thomas; • a dialogue with the major movements and thinkers of the twentieth century, with particular attention to problems associated with the Enlightenment,...