| The various crises that face human society today necessitate a renewal in the field of theological anthropology, the branch of dogmatic theology in which the human person is reflected upon in light of Sacred Scripture and the Tradition of the Church. This study seeks to advance this endeavor through a careful consideration of the Christian integralism advocated by the French Jesuit Henri de Lubac and embraced by the theologians associated with the contemporary movement known as Radical Orthodoxy. It attempts to demonstrate that de Lubac's study of the relationship between nature and grace and the ontology of participation reflected in the works of scholars of the Radical Orthodoxy movement provide not only a strong foundation on which to begin a truly Christian anthropology, but an important theme for its systematization, that of communion. |
