In The Givenness of Desire, Randall S. Rosenberg examines the human desire for God through the lens of Lonergan’s "concrete subjectivity."

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: DE LUBAC, RESSOURCEMENT, AND NEO-THOMISM

CHAPTER 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 SUBJECT

CHAPTER 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 TRANSCENDENCE

CHAPTER 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

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