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Record Nr.

UNINA9910219867903321

Autore

Rosenberg Randall S.

Titolo

The Givenness of Desire : Concrete Subjectivity and the Natural Desire to See God / / Randall S. Rosenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of Toronto Press, 2017

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]

©2017

ISBN

1-4875-1072-1

1-4875-1470-0

1-4875-1071-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 pages) : 1 illustration, 1 chart; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Lonergan Studies

Disciplina

126

Soggetti

Subjectivity

Desire

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

De Lubac's lament : loss of the supernatural -- Ressourcement and neo-Thomism : a narrative under scrutiny, a dialogue renewed -- The erotic roots of intellectual desire -- Concretely operating nature : Lonergan on the natural desire to see God -- Being-in-love and the desire for the supernatural : erotic-agapic subjectivity -- Incarnate meaning and mimetic desire : saints and the desire for God -- The metaphysics of holiness and the longing for God in history : Therese of Lisieux and Etty Hillesum -- Distorted desire and the love of deviated transcendence.

Sommario/riassunto

"In The Givenness of Desire, Randall S. Rosenberg examines the human desire for God through the lens of Lonergan's "concrete subjectivity." Rosenberg engages and integrates two major scholarly developments: the tension between Neo-Thomists and scholars of Henri de Lubac over our natural desire to see God and the theological appropriation of the mimetic theory of Rene Girard, with an emphasis on the saints as models of desire. With Lonergan as an integrating thread, the author



engages a variety of thinkers, including Hans Urs von Balthasar, Jean-Luc Marion, Rene Girard, James Alison, Lawrence Feingold, John Milbank, among others. The theme of concrete subjectivity helps to resist the tendency of equating too easily the natural desire for being with the natural desire for God without at the same time acknowledging the widespread distortion of desire found in the consumer culture that infects contemporary life. The Givenness of Desire investigates our paradoxical desire for God that is rooted in both the natural and supernatural."--