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[German Version] Lubac, Henri de, (Feb 20, 1896, Cambrai, France – Sep 4, 1991, Paris), a French Jesuit theologian, became cardinal in 1983. Lubac was one of the principal renewers of Catholic theology in the light of biblical and patristic sources and exerted decisive influence on Vatican II. After taking part in World War I and finishing his studies, according to the Jesuit curriculum, in Jersey, Ore Place (intensive preoccupation with M. Blondel,'s philosophy), and Lyon, he was appointed lectur…

[German Version] Initially used in German as a pejorative borrowing (since 1942), the phrase nouvelle théologie has since entered common use as a designation of the thought of several French Catholic theologians, from the ranks of the Jesuits (including H. de Lubac and Henri Bouillard) and Dominicans (including Marie-Dominique Chenu and Y. Congar), who had been seeking since the mid-1930s to draw on the theology of the church fathers, the 19th-century Catholic Tübingen school (Tübingen: I), J.H. Newman, and M.…