In the next section, we hear much talk of the "patristic" de Lubac , who was one of the great rediscovery of the church fathers and their theology. But he speaks in fact not only as a theologian of theologians, but couched in general terms and thus also for us valid. The classics go to school - not (only) to increase the knowledge, but first to learn from them as "spiritual". to learn to live spiritually.
"If he draws his spiritual nourishment from the Scriptures, he has not therefore be excused for faithful to listen to the teacher, and through this obedience is not relieved of the duty to cultivate deeper contact with the Church's tradition. The teacher encouraged him even more re-included. And in such a hearing from he looks for something different and larger than the fruit of academic research. He knows he would never obtain a true religious culture can not loving and unselfish dealings with those he rightly known as a classic of his faith. He looks at them with less to deal with 'great spirits', as with the truly "spiritual man". He tries so far as possible to penetrate into the intimacy of those who prayed to him in the church of Christ who lived for Christ, worked, suffered thought. They are the fathers of his soul. Through frequent use of them he acquires at least some of the Catholic ethos, which is neither scientific nor replace themselves by orthodoxy. How well he understands it as the enthusiasm of the then Anglican Newman because he discovered the 'church fathers' and in it by a kind of Platonic anamnesis, or rather, by a revelation of the mind's true mother "acknowledging . (The Church .- Einsiedeln: Johannes, 1968, p. 221-222)
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