Lonergan's Quest

Lonergan's Quest PDF Author: William A. Mathews
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802038751
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 577

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In "Lonergan's Quest," William A. Mathews details the genesis, researching, composition, and question structure of "Insight."

Lonergan's Quest

Lonergan's Quest PDF Author: William A. Mathews
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802038751
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 577

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Book Description
In "Lonergan's Quest," William A. Mathews details the genesis, researching, composition, and question structure of "Insight."

Lonergan, Meaning and Method

Lonergan, Meaning and Method PDF Author: Andrew Beards
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501318667
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Bernard Lonergan (1904-84) is acknowledged as one of the most significant philosopher-theologians of the 20th century. Lonergan, Meaning and Method in many ways complements Andrew Beards' previous book on Lonergan, Insight and Analysis (Bloomsbury, 2010). Andrew Beards applies Lonergan's thought and brings it into critical dialogue and discussion with other contemporary philosophical interlocutors, principally from the analytical tradition. He also introduces themes and arguments from the continental tradition, as well as offering interpretative analysis of some central notions in Lonergan's thought that are of interest to all who wish to understand the importance of Lonergan's work for philosophy and Christian theology. Three of the chapters focus upon areas of fruitful exchange and debate between Lonergan's thought and the work of three major figures in current analytical philosophy: Nancy Cartwright, Timothy Williamson and Scott Soames. The discussion also ranges across such topics as meaning theory, metaphilosophy, epistemology, philosophy of science and aesthetics.

Lonergan's Discovery of the Science of Economics

Lonergan's Discovery of the Science of Economics PDF Author: Michael Shute
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 144264091X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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Bernard Lonergan's economic writings span forty years and contain ideas that differ radically from those of his contemporaries. His theory of macroeconomic dynamics was developed through the 1930s and 1940s, culminating in the composition of For a New Political Economy (1942) and An Essay in Circulation Analysis (1944). In Lonergan's Discovery of the Science of Economics, Michael Shute uses archival material in order to examine the influence of Lonergan's early work in methodology, social philosophy, and theology on the development of his economic theory. Shute traces the development of Lonergan's economic ideas from the late 1920s to the publication of his significant economic works in the 1940s. Together with its companion volume, Lonergan's Early Economic Research, this volume outlines the process behind one of the great intellectual discoveries of the twentieth century and uncovers Lonergan's framework for a genuine science of economics.

Quest for Self-knowledge

Quest for Self-knowledge PDF Author: Joseph Flanagan
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802078513
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Book Description
Introduces teachers and students to the difficult subject of self-knowledge and provides readers with a transcultural, normative foundation for a critical evaluation of self-identity and cultural identity.

Lonergan's Early Economic Research

Lonergan's Early Economic Research PDF Author: Bernard J. F. Lonergan
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802098649
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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Book Description
Lonergan's Early Economic Research delves into the origins of Bernard Lonergan's economic theory through his own writing on the subject. Michael Shute provides transcriptions of many of Lonergan's private files on economics for a deeper understanding of his groundbreaking macroeconomic theory. An introduction by the editor contextualizes the works, which also serve as archival materials relevant to the companion volume Lonergan's Discovery of the Science of Economics. Organized around specific themes such as dialectic of history, methodology, economic history, and price equilibrium, the book makes available a substantial amount of previously unpublished texts. Materials include Lonergan's earliest notes on economics prior to his move to Rome in 1933, the complete surviving portion of 'An Essay in Fundamental Sociology,' and notes on economists Heinrich Pesch and Lionel Robbins, among others. These early works show that Lonergan built his economic discoveries on the methodological developments that he founded in his writings on the philosophy of history.

Before Truth

Before Truth PDF Author: Jeremy Wilkins
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
ISBN: 0813231477
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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Book Description
It’s frequently said that we live in a “post-truth” age. That obviously can’t be true, but it does name a real problem on our hands. Getting things right is hard, especially if they’re complicated. It takes preparation, diligence, and honesty. Wisdom, according to Thomas Aquinas, is the quality of right judgment. This book is about the problem of becoming wise, the problem “before truth.” It is about that problem particularly as it comes up for religious, philosophical, and theological truth claims. Before Truth: Lonergan, Aquinas, and the Problem of Wisdom proposes that Bernard Lonergan’s approach to these problems can help us become wise. One of the special problems facing Christian believers today is our awareness of how much our tradition has developed. This development has occurred along a path shot through with contingencies. Theologians have to be able to articulate how and why doctrines, institutions, and practices that have developed—and are still developing—should nevertheless be worthy of our assent and devotion.

And in Our Hearts Take Up Thy Rest

And in Our Hearts Take Up Thy Rest PDF Author: Michael Eades
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487505590
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Book Description
In his seminary classes and his writings, Frederick Crowe, SJ (1915-2012) sought to understand anew the eternal identity of the Holy Spirit and the Spirit's role in the Church's life. Despite Crowe's fame as a professor of Trinitarian theology and his groundbreaking work on Thomas Aquinas' doctrine of complacent love as an analogy for the Holy Spirit's eternal procession, no book has ever been published on this influential Canadian Jesuit, who set up centres around the world for the study of the thought of Bernard Lonergan, SJ (1904-84). Drawing on Crowe's published works and archival material, Eades emphasizes how Crowe's Trinitarian pneumatology modestly and creatively extended Lonergan's theology of the Holy Spirit. Making use of Crowe's own historical methodology, Eades looks for the emergence of new and significant questions about the Holy Spirit in Crowe's works.

Conversion Works

Conversion Works PDF Author: Jeffrey A. Allen
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532688768
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Book Description
In this book, conversion means abandoning a world view and starting over. Using this definition of conversion, the book examines four works: Augustine of Hippo’s Confessions, René Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy, Bernard Lonergan’s Insight: A Study of Human Understanding, and Peter Weir’s The Truman Show. The main argument of this book is that all four works contain and induce conversion. That is, all four works feature an individual who abandons a world view and starts over, and all four works exhort their engager to do the same. This book also explores the works’ requirement of cognitive imitation, wherein a person replicates the mental activities of the individual who has a conversion in the work, and of private engagement, wherein a person reads or views the work while alone. The book concludes with an argument for the educational value of the four works that appropriates Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death.

Lex Crucis

Lex Crucis PDF Author: William P. Loewe
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1506410162
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 391

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Book Description
What is the true story of God and humankind, and how does that story become a saving story? These are pivotal questions that constitute the narratives Christians tell about themselves, their values, and how the Christian life is to be lived. In shaping those stories into a coherent, intelligible framework that provides comprehensive meaning, soteriology—the doctrine of redemption—developed as a keystone to Christian consciousness. This study investigates that development of the soteriological tradition. Employing Bernard Lonergan’s notion of the stages of meaning as a hermeneutic, the volume traces the origins of soteriology in the early Christian tradition represented by Irenaeus to its establishment as a systematic theory in Anselm, Aquinas, and subsequent developments in the Protestant tradition of Luther and Schleiermacher. The author concludes with a constructive exploration of Lonergan’s own work on the question of soteriology that overcomes the modernist distortions that hinder Schleiermacher’s account and offers an articulation of the dynamics of Christian conversion that opens onto the social, cultural, and political mediations of redemption necessary for the contemporary age.

Discerning Church, A

Discerning Church, A PDF Author: Whelan, Gerard, SJ
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 1587688387
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Book Description
A Discerning Church presents a theological model for these changing times. It examines the thought of Bernard Lonergan and offers an assessment of the significance of Pope Francis and the church since the Second Vatican Council. It then explores major insights and issues such as ecclesial reform, globalization, and sexuality, that will impact the future of the church.