A Second Collection: Papers by Bernard J.F. Lonergan, S.J. / Edition 1

by Bernard J.F. Lonergan, William F.J. Ryan, Bernard J. Tyrrell

Overview

This collection of essays, addresses, and one interview come from the years 1966-73, a period during most of which Bernard Lonergan was at work completing his Method in Theology. The eighteen chapters cover a wide spectrum of interest, dealing with such general topics as 'The Absence of God in Modern Culture' and 'The Future of Christianity,' narrowing down through items such as 'Belief: Today's Issue' and more specialized theological and philosophical studies, to one on his own community in the church ('The Response of the Jesuit...') and the illuminating comment on his great work Insight ('Insight Revisited').

This book is a reprint of the first edition published in 1974, edited by William F.J. Ryan and Bernard J. Tyrrell of Gonzaga University, Spokane. The editors contribute an important introduction in which they emphasize that Lonergan's central concern is intentionality analysis, and that two major themes run through the papers: "first, the clear emergence of the primacy of the fourth level of human consciousness, the existential level, the level of evaluation and love; secondly, the significance of historical consciousness. These papers, then, besides the unity they possess by appearing within the same seven year period, share a specific unity of theme."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802079435
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	12/15/1996
Series:	Heritage
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Bernard J.F. Lonergan (1904-1984), a professor of theology, taught at Regis College, Harvard University, and Boston College. An established author known for his Insight and Method in Theology, Lonergan received numerous honorary doctorates, was a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1971 and was named as an original members of the International Theological Commission by Pope Paul VI. William F.J. Ryan, Gonzaga University, Spokane. Bernard J. Tyrrell, Gonzaga University, Spokane.

Table of Contents

General Editors' Preface

1 The Transition from a Classicist Worldview to Historical Mindedness

2 The Dehellenization of Dogma

3 Theories of Inquiry: Responses to a Symposium

4 The Future of Thomism

5 Theology in Its New Context

6 The Subject

7 Belief: Today's Issue

8 The Absence of God in Modern Culture

9 Natural Knowledge of God

10 Theology and Man's Future

11 The Future of Christianity

12 The Response of the Jesuit as Priest and Apostle in the Modern World

13 The Example of Gibson Winter

14 Philosophy and Theology

15 An Interview with Fr Bernard Lonergan S.J.

16 Revolution in Catholic Theology

17 The Origins of Christian Realism (1972)

18 Insight Revisited

Lexicon of Latin Terms and Phrases

Index