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Henri de Lubac SJ (1896-1991)

Henri de Lubac SJ (1896-1991). contemporary theology. Commitment of H. De Lubac (1896-1991) Address the Church’s failure to relate with contemporary culture, i.e., rethink Catholicism in a way more relevant to the human person’s deepest aspiration

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Henri de Lubac SJ (1896-1991)

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  1. Henri de Lubac SJ (1896-1991)

  2. contemporary theology Commitment of H. De Lubac (1896-1991) • Address the Church’s failure to relate with contemporary culture, i.e., rethink Catholicism in a way more relevant to the human person’s deepest aspiration • Retrieve authentic Aquinas (resourcement) • Address issue of the SPLIT between NATURE and SUPERNATURE contemporary theology

  3. contemporary theology What led to the loss of the “sense of Sacred”? • Encounter between faith and science in modern culture • Theology – too preoccupied with battling heresies • Split between nature and supernatural • Rationalist spirit of theologians without the sense of mystery of the Lord contemporary theology

  4. contemporary theology The split between grace and nature: CAJETAN (16th C) – “human nature” is a sufficient whole; natural powers to achieve natural end; supernatural end is something super-added BAIUS (16th C), JANSENIUS (17th C) – notion “pure nature” developed to defend the gratuity of grace and defend integrity of the human nature Result: SPLIT between nature and grace Grace seen as alien to human nature! contemporary theology

  5. contemporary theology Lubac’s dilemma • Grace must somehow be there already in nature • Yet grace must remain gratuitous contemporary theology

  6. contemporary theology Lubac’s conviction • Nature and supernatural – distinct yet intimately related; nature is made for supernatural • Lubac’sSurnaturel (1946) argues that: • Human person is created in God’s image, and has a natural desire for the vision of God • Vision of God is the only genuine finality of the human spirit; world and history must be viewed in terms of this finality. contemporary theology

  7. contemporary theology For Henri de Lubac then… God’s fundamental intention in creation God wished to communicate himself as ABSOLUTE LOVE and to inscribe this wish of his in the innermost being of the spiritual creature, so that the creature recognizes therein the “call of God to love”. contemporary theology

  8. Bernard Lonergan, SJ (1904-1984)

  9. contemporary theology Bernard Lonergan’s convictions • Goal of human life: personal union with God in the beatific vision • God’s help is indispensable to progress towards God. • This help is given to allin unexpected and overwhelming way, granting humans a share in God’s nature, knowledge and love contemporary theology

  10. contemporary theology Towards a renewed “treatise on grace” Reality of conversion = core/key of the treatise on grace… as described in Roman 5:5 “… for the love of God is poured forth in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who is given to us” • Rightly ordered life in love is the gift of the Spirit • Life is effort and growth through use of human faculties of intelligence, judgment and reasonablechoice. All these are God’s gifts (graces) • Mystery of Grace – must be understood in this context contemporary theology

  11. contemporary theology Bernard Lonergan on “Justification” • State of being related with God in the love of friendship • It is new in each individual when the individual begins to be open to that love • This love, call to intimate friendship is given to every human person • It is totally gratuitous contemporary theology

  12. contemporary theology Bernard Lonerganon “actual grace” • If God’s love is real, then some created being is really loved by God. If God’s action (help) is real, there must be some reality corresponding to and resulting from God’s action in the world • The corresponding reality is the reality of the human actions – personal, subjective acts of sorrow, faith, hope and love.. • These acts proceed from the one being converted, but they proceed by God’s action and as a result of God’s gracious will • Performed deliberately, consciously as steps to the supernatural goal, these acts please God and merit reward • These acts are “actual graces”, i.e. instances of “grace in act” contemporary theology

  13. Karl Rahner SJ (1904-1984)

  14. contemporary theology Karl Rahner… “God communicates himself to all in a free, absolute, unmerited, forgiving self-communication.” contemporary theology

  15. contemporary theology Karl Rahner… “this self-communication is plausible only because human beings are created from the beginning as an orientation to the transcendent mystery.” “Supernatural existential” contemporary theology

  16. contemporary theology Karl Rahner… Supernatural existential… “existential” = intrinsic component of human existence… part of the very definition of the human in its historic existence… “supernatural existential” – it means that it is part of human nature only because of God’s free and gratuitous disposition of this nature contemporary theology

  17. contemporary theology Karl Rahner… “The intrinsic freedom of this offer of friendship is not diminished in the slightest by the fact that God actually offers friendship to each and every human being.” contemporary theology

  18. contemporary theology Karl Rahner… “This invitation of friendship could not be accepted unless divine friendship was already given. God must present as divinizing to make acceptance possible.” contemporary theology

  19. contemporary theology Karl Rahner… “Human remains free to say “no” to God. Normally, this will not be done explicitly, but implicitly in rejecting concrete good choices and decisions…” contemporary theology

  20. contemporary theology Romans 5:1-5 “Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, BECAUSE GOD’S LOVE HAS BEEN POURED INTO OUR HEARTS THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT WHICH HAS BEEN GIVEN TO US.” contemporary theology

  21. Holy Spirit is poured to us “INDWELLING” Uncreated Grace “God dwelling in us” Indwelling God offers us momentary graces to do good acts (e.g., inspiration, enlightenment) Indwelling God offers us the grace of love-relationship Grace GIVEN Grace GIVEN JUSTIFICATION Transformation SANCTIFYING GRACE Actual Grace FILIATION New Relation Grace ACCEPTED Grace ACCEPTED We respond with our gift of cooperation to do good acts We respond with our gift of acceptance Rom 5:5 “God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us.”

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