Lubac complex

Henri de Lubac (–) arrived on the Lyon peninsula in September at the age of thirty-four. Because of the early retirement of Fr.

Albert Valensin, de Lubac was somewhat hastily appointed to the chair of fundamental theology in the Faculty of Theology at the Université Catholique de Lyon. With little preparation, and with even fewer resources at his disposal, de Lubac delivered his inaugural lecture the following month on the subject of “apologetics and theology.” The lecture was largely well received by those in attendance (a group of about fifteen candidates for the licentiate or doctoral degrees) and was published the following year as “Apologétique et Théologie” (“Apologetics and Theology”) in the Nouvelle revue théologique by the Jesuits of Louvain.

Like nearly all of de Lubac’s writings, “Apologetics and Theology” is an occasional piece, arising not simply from the demands of a lectureship in f