Professor and Theologian
De Lubac served as a professor of fundamental theology at the Catholic University of Lyon from 1929 to 1961, with two interruptions; the first during World War II, when he was forced underground because of his activities with the French Resistance and the second, from 1950 to 1958, when the Jesuit order, under pressure from Rome, removed him from his teaching responsibilities and sent him away from the Jesuit residence at Fourvière.
His first book, the now-classic Catholicisme (English title of the current edition: Catholicism: Christ and Common Destiny of Man) was published in 1938, before the war. Several other works begun before 1940 were published together as soon as paper became available again in 1945, including Surnaturel, etudes historiques, and three works on Buddhism. In 1940, he founded the series Sources Chrétiennes ("Christian Sources"), co-edited with fellow Jesuit Jean Daniélou, a collection of bilingual, critical editions of early Christian texts and of the Fathers of the Church that has reinvigorated both the study of Patristics and the doctrine of Sacred Tradition. His pioneering study Exégèse médiévale (1959–65) revived interest in the spiritual exegesis of Scripture and provided a major impetus to the development of Covenantal Theology (Roman Catholic).
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