The sense of the supernatural

In this - the first in English by a writer of growing importance in France - the foundations are laid of a theology of culture in the tradition of de Lubac and J. H. Newman. The modernist crisis is examined from an unusual angle, and understood as never before. The fate of the Catholic liturgy in the wake of the Second Vatican Council is examined and the need for a recovery of the sense of the sacred becomes clear. In reaffirming the importance of symbolism and sacrament, in resisting the temptations of integralism and extreme traditionalism, Jean Borella recalls us to the adventure of becoming human reminding us of the patristic and Orthodox teaching on deification, and helps to re-open in us the place where 'God awaits our waiting on him' - the place where God's promises and our deepest desires are fulfilled beyond measure.