Everything Is Sacred - Spiritual Exegesis in the Political Theology of Henri de Lubac (Paperback, New)

It is well known that Henri de Lubac's groundbreaking and highly controversial work on nature and grace had important implications for the Church's relationship to culture and was intended to remove a philosophical obstacle hindering Catholicism's faithful engagement with the secular world. This book addresses a too-often neglected dimension of de Lubac's theological renewal by examining the centrality and indispensability of spiritual exegesis in his oeuvre and making explicit its social and political signi cance for the Church's worship and witness. In addition to exploring the historical and ecclesial context within which he worked, this book brings de Lubac into a critical engagement with the more recent theological movements of post-liberalism and radical orthodoxy in order to demonstrate the enduring signi cance of his theological vision. Bryan C. Hollon is Assistant Professor of Theology at Malone College in Canton, Ohio. "Hollon offers the best introduction to date on de Lubac's spiritual interpretation of Scripture. His bold recovery of Henri de Lubac's participatory hermeneutic offers an excellent contribution to the rapidly growing scholarship on the French Catholic theologian. The book argues for a hermeneutic that avoids the dual trap of isolating Jesus' biblical identity from the life of the Church (the post-liberal tendency) and of reducing Christology to ecclesiology (the fallacy of Radical Orthodoxy). Hollon convincingly argues that the Church's ontological participation in Christ is mediated through the practice of spiritual interpretation along the lines advocated by de Lubac. The result is both an incisive, sympathetic-critical engagement with contemporary hermeneutics and a superb introduction to one of the central concerns of de Lubac." - HANS BOERSMA, Author of 'Nouvelle theologie' and 'Sacramental Ontology'.