Problem darmowości nadnatury w systemie H. de Lubac’a

Abstract

The task undertaken by the author of the article consists in deciding whether the gratuitousness of supernature (surnaturel), as understood by the Church, is or is not violated in H. de Lubac’s system. Having presented the historical context of the problem in question, the teaching of the magisterium of the Church concerning the gratuitousness of supernature, and having made a critical analysis of H. de Lubac’s views, the author concludes that H. de Lubac’s system does not violated the gratuitousness of supernature. It will not be a mistake, however, to say that the system does not fully reveal the gratuitous character of supernature, neither does it justify this character in a satisfactory way. H. de Lubac did not show explicityly enough the many different kinds of the gratuitousness of supernature as compared with the gratuitousness of nature. Besides he positively excluded a possible occurrence of a natural order which would be a further pre-requisite for acknowledging the true gratuitousness of supernature.