Part I: The Ressourcement Movement: Historical Context
This is the first of a multipart series by a guest blogger (and new friend), Michael Deem. Michael earned his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Theology at the Franciscan University of Steubenville...
View ArticlePart II: The Ressourcement Movement: Henri de Lubac
By Michael Deem Henri de Lubac—French priest, scholar and cardinal—stands at the center of the Ressourcement movement in Catholic theology. While he certainly was not the progenitor of Ressourcement,...
View ArticlePart III: The Ressourcement Movement: Impact and Historical Endurance
By Michael Deem In this, my final installment on the Ressourcement movement in Catholic theology, I wish to briefly sketch the impact and historical endurance of the movement. While Henri de Lubac may...
View ArticleAdditional Augustine and Gadamer Hermeneutical Connections
Below are additional thoughts/findings related to my ongoing Augustine/Gadamer paper. *** Interestingly, those who, in the spirit of B. Spinoza, adopt a strict grammatico-historical method of...
View ArticlePart I: Henri de Lubac’s Ressourcement of the Desiderium Naturale Dei and the...
This begins a multi-part series on de Lubac by Daniel W. McClain. Daniel is a doctoral student of theology at the Catholic University of America and blogs at The Land of Unlikeness. *** By Daniel W....
View ArticlePart II: Henri de Lubac’s Ressourcement of the Desiderium Naturale Dei and...
By Daniel W. McClain II. Thomas 2: The Vision of God in the Summa Theologica Having demonstrated in the Summa Contra Gentiles that happiness is humanity’s end,[1] he elaborates on the desiderium...
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By Daniel W. McClain III. De Lubac: the Loss of Man’s Natural Desire for a Supernatural Finality Henri de Lubac writes in the first chapter of The Mystery of the Supernatural that despite Thomas’...
View ArticlePart IV: Henri de Lubac’s Ressourcement of the Desiderium Naturale Dei and...
By Daniel W. McClain IV. Creation as Gift: moving forward with nature and grace If de Lubac proposes a recovery of Thomas’ teaching on the desiderium naturale that is sensitive to the concern to...
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Conversations with Augustine: Essay #7, Augustine, von Balthasar, and de Lubac
Quando Tu and The Nuptial Creation: St. Augustine’s Enduring Influence on Contemporary Ecclesiology Mary C. Moorman, Ph.D. candidate, Southern Methodist University Historians such as David Hunter have...
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Conversations with Augustine: Commentary on Moorman’s Essay
Commentary on Moorman’s Essay by Dan McClain Mary Moorman begins her erudite essay with a three point outline of Augustine’s use of the nuptial metaphor in his ecclesiology (about which I admit to...
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