Givenness of Desire

Randall S. Rosenberg is an assistant professor in the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University.

• AcknowledgementsINTRODUCTIONPART ONE: DE LUBAC, RESSOURCEMENT, AND NEO-THOMISMCHAPTER 1: De Lubac’s Lament: Loss of the Supernatural  CHAPTER 2: Ressourcement and Neo-Thomism: A Narrative under Scrutiny, A Dialogue Renewed  PART TWO: A LONERGAN RETRIEVAL: PURE NATURE TO CONCRETE SUBJECTCHAPTER 3: The Erotic Roots of Intellectual Desire   CHAPTER 4: Concretely-Operating Nature: Lonergan on the Natural Desire to See God  CHAPTER 5: Being-in-Love and the Desire for the Supernatural: Erotic-Agapic Subjectivity PART III: MIMETIC DESIRE, MODELS OF HOLINESS, AND THE LOVE OF DEVIATED TRANSCENDENCECHAPTER 6: Incarnate Meaning and Mimetic Desire: Saints and the Desire for God  CHAPTER 7: The Metaphysics of Holiness and the Longing for God in History: Thérèse of Lisieux and Etty Hillesum  CHAPTER 8: Distorted Desire and the Love of Deviated Transcendence  CONCLUSION

‘This volume is a valuable resource for any scholar interested in the desire for self-transcendence and the natural desire for God.’- J.M. Meinert (Choice Magazine vol 55:05:2018) "Rosenberg has achieved something rare: a genuine and sympathetic conversation among neo-Scholastics, Lonergan, Girard, and la nouvelle théologie. The result is a valuable and immensely stimulating book, funded by terrific insight, for a theologically sophisticated readership."- Jeremy D. Wilkins (Horizons: The Journal of the College of Theological Society)