Spirito e libertà1 was published in 1980 by the Milanese publisher Jaca Book. A revised text of two of the most controversial sections of Surnaturel,² the book was Henri de Lubac’s third reflection on his masterwork to be taken alongside les deux jumeaux of 1965: Augustinisme et théologie³ moderne and Le mystère du surnaturel.⁴ The 1980 volume, as an act of self-reflection, is luminous for the audacity of what de Lubac lets stand. Without so much as a hint of self-conscious second-guessing or anxious dialing-down of his 1946 thesis, de Lubac repeats: the desire of the human heart is already “something of God.”⁵

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