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Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man

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With a Foreword by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI

This book first appeared just over fifty years ago. It’s the pilgrimatic work of probably the most 20th century’s greatest theologians. Deeply rooted in tradition, it breaks ground and sows seeds so as to bear their fruit in the Second Vatican Council’s central documents on the Church. Here, Henri de Lubac, probably the most giants of 20th century theology, gathers from all over the breadth and length of Catholic tradition elements which he synthesizes to show the essentially social and historical character of the Catholic Church and how this all over the world and agelong dimension of the Church is the only adequate matrix for the fulfillment of the person within society and the transcendence of the person towards God. This book is a classic that deserves to be read and reread by each educated Catholic.

“For me, the encounter with this book became an essential milestone on my theological journey. For in it de Lubac does not treat merely isolated questions. He makes visible to us in a new way the fundamental intuition of Christian Faith in order that from this inner core all of the paricular elements appear in a new light.”

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI

“Few of our living authors have given us a work at once so profound, so apt and so persuasive as this of the great French Jesuit. Certainly, few could have written the book on the basis of this kind of rich knowledge of the Christian tradition…. De Lubac’s thought has the originality which springs from the contact with a great tradition of a brilliant, deep and charitable mind. And it has a contemporaneity that bears witness to a profound, all-embracing, human concern.”

-Dom Christopher Butler, Abbot of Downside

“We cannot leave it without referring to its almost unbelievable comprehensiveness of view. De Lubac writes of the Church in this kind of way as to allow fully for the truth there is in Protestant or Liberal views of the Christian society.”
–Church Times

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