Title
Review of Philippe Geneste, Humanisme et Lumière du Christ chez Henri de Lubac
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Title
Journal of Jesuit Studies
Publication Date
2017
School
College of Arts and Sciences
Department
Department of Theology
Abstract
Henri de Lubac, S.J. (1896–1991) has been interpreted in various and highly contradictory ways, as a modernist, a theological conservative, a Thomist, a closet neo-Platonist, a proto-postmodern theologian, and as a post-liberal. Philippe Geneste interprets him in the only way plausible: as a Jesuit. Humanisme et Lumière du Christ chez Henri de Lubac was the doctoral thesis of Geneste, who died in an automobile accident in 2014. Jean-Pierre Wagner, Geneste’s doctoral advisor, edited the thesis for publication in the series Les études lubaciennes.The point of departure for this study is not what one might expect, a systematic analysis of the structure of human nature or the theology of natural desire for the supernatural in de Lubac’s work. Instead, Geneste approaches anthropology and Christology from a tradition of Christian humanism rooted in Ignatian spirituality.
Recommended Citation
Flipper, Joseph, "Review of Philippe Geneste, Humanisme et Lumière du Christ chez Henri de Lubac" (2017). Theology Faculty Publications and Presentations. 8.
https://scholarworks.bellarmine.edu/theology_fac_pubs/8