Born in Cambrai (France) in 1896. Jesuit. 1929 Professor of fundamental theology and history of religions at the Catholic Institute of Lyon and the Faculty of Theology of Lyon-Fourvière.

Henri de Lubac was one of the promoters of the renewal of theology from patristic sources. Retired from teaching in 1950, back in 1958. Member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in Paris in 1958. He participated as an expert in the Second Vatican Council. In 1983 he was made a cardinal by John Paul II. He died in Paris in 1991.

Works: The Eternal Feminine, 1969; Exegesis médiévale, les quatre sens de l'Écriture, 1959-1964; The Christian faith, 1970; The particular Churches in the universal Church, 1974; Meditation on the Church, 1988 (3rd ed.); The mystery of the supernatural, 1991.