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| | Henri de Lubac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | Henri Cardinal de Lubac (February 20, 1896 - September 4, 1991), a French Jesuit, can be considered to be one of the most influential theologians of post-modern time. |
 | | In 1969 Pope Paul VI, an admirer of de Lubac's works, proposed to make him a Cardinal, but de Lubac refused, believing Pope John XXIII's 1962 requirement that all cardinals be bishops was "an abuse of an apostolic office". |
 | | Paul VI instead elevated de Lubac's junior colleague Jean Danielou in that consistory, having committed to grant the cardinalate to a Jesuit theologian, but in 1983 Pope John Paul II offered de Lubac the cardinalate again, this time with exemption from being consecrated a bishop, and de Lubac accepted. |
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