Twentieth-century Catholic theology was strongly affected by Henri de Lubac's claim that the western theological tradition went awry by allowing that one could have an adequate idea of human nature without reference to humanity's supernatural end. According to de Lubac, the culprits were early modern scholastics, and their mistake was the idea of pure nature. Aquinas's Notion of Pure Nature and the Christian Integralism of Henri de Lubac: Not Everything Is Grace contributes to the current literature criticizing de Lubac's thesis. Specifically, it offers an explanation for its enduring power and popularity with particular attention to the contemporary Radical Orthodoxy movement.

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Bernard Mulcahy, O.P., is a Dominican friar of the Province of St. Joseph in the United States. He received his license in sacred theology from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception (Washington, D.C.) and his PhD in systematic theology from the Australian Catholic University (National). He has taught theology at Providence College (Providence, RI), Benedictine College (Atchison, KS), and at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception.