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Book SynopsisTrade Review“This is an important work, unlocking de Lubac in a fresh way that resituates him within the flow of twentieth-century theology and suggests a different way of conceiving his relation to Vatican II.” —Philip McCosker, co-editor of Cambridge Companion to the "Summa Theologiae" of Thomas Aquinas
"Schlesinger’s Salvation in Henri de Lubac challenges us to see a soteriological vision as the golden thread running through the theologian's many works. This is a substantial contribution to our discussion and will be welcomed by any concerned with theology in our day." —Lewis Ayres, author of Augustine and the Trinity
"In this excellent study, Schlesinger joins his voice to a new generation of de Lubac scholarship that seeks to discern a vital artery giving a single pulse to de Lubac’s very diverse corpus of writings. Schlesinger’s knowledge of de Lubac and the scholarship around him is unparalleled, and his synthetic vision offers a powerful new understanding of this master of the ressourcement." —Kevin L. Hughes, author of Constructing Antichrist
"Schlesinger's careful study of de Lubac’s writing, with sixty-three pages of endnotes, is important for his contribution to both soteriology and ecclesiology." —Theological Studies
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Salvation Desired: Nature, Grace, and Competing Humanisms
1. Saving Grace: Soteriology in the Works on Nature and Grace
2. Authentic Humanism as Salvation
Part 2. Salvation Disclosed: Revelation and Spiritual Exegesis
3. Knowing the Mystery: De Lubac’s Paradoxical Theological Epistemology
4. Spiritual Exegesis and/as Salvation
Part 3. Salvation Realized: Ecclesiology and Sacraments
5. Church as Community of Salvation
6. Corpus Mysticum Verumque
Part 4. Salvation Consummated: Eschatology and the Theology of History
7. Salvation as the Meaning of History
8. Salvation as Eschatological Sacrifice
Coda — Gathering the Threads: The Eternal Sacrifice
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
