Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1: De Lubac, Ressourcement , and Neo-Thomism
6. 1 De Lubac’s Lament: Loss of the Supernatural 13
7. 2 Ressourcement and Neo-Thomism: A Narrative under Scrutiny, a Dialogue Renewed 39
8. Part 2: A Lonergan Retrieval: Pure Nature to Concrete Subject
9. 3 The Erotic Roots of Intellectual Desire 65
10. 4 Concretely Operating Nature: Lonergan on the Natural Desire to See God 88
11. 5 Being-in-Love and the Desire for the Supernatural: Erotic-Agapic Subjectivity 116
12. Part 3: Mimetic Desire, Models of Holiness, and the Love of Deviated Transcendence
13. 6 Incarnate Meaning and Mimetic Desire: Saints and the Desire for God 139
14. 7 The Metaphysics of Holiness and the Longing for God in History: Thérèse of Lisieux and Etty Hillesum 157
15. 8 Distorted Desire and the Love of Deviated Transcendence 184
16. Conclusion 201
17. Notes 207
18. Bibliography 253
19. Index 267