Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man
Lyons · 1938
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Henri de Lubac
Henri de Lubac
1896 CE–1991 CE · Modern · Cambrai
Henri de Lubac (1896–1991) was a French Jesuit priest and cardinal widely regarded as one of the most influential Catholic theologians of the twentieth century. His landmark works challenged the neo-scholastic separation of nature and grace, arguing in Surnaturel (1946) that the human person has a natural desire for the supernatural — a thesis that drew Roman censure and cost him his teaching post from 1950 to 1958. He was a leading figure in the Ressourcement movement, which sought to renew Catholic theology by returning to the patristic and medieval sources, and his scholarship on the Eucharist and ecclesiology in Corpus Mysticum shaped the ecclesiological language of the Second Vatican Council, at which he served as a theological expert (peritus). Pope John Paul II created him a cardinal in 1983, and the French Bishops' Conference voted in 2023 to open a cause for his beatification.
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Born on 20 February 1896 in Cambrai, in northern France; his family returned shortly afterwards to the Lyon district, where he was raised and schooled by Jesuits.
About Cambrai
Cambrai, a city in northern France, historically an important archiepiscopal see. François Fénelon served as archbishop of Cambrai (1695-1715), where he was exiled from court amid the Quietist controversy.
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