The Lonergan Workshop journal, edited by Fred Lawrence, is the annual publication of papers presented at the previous year’s Lonergan Workshop. The Workshop journal is a rich resource for the important work taking place in ongoing conversations at the Boston College Lonergan Workshop each summer.
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v — Editor’s Note
vii — Contributors To This Issue
ix — Table of Contents
1 — Dialectic and the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises | Frederick E. Crowe
27 — The Psychological Present to the Academic Community | Philip McShane
69 —Transcendental Dialectic of Desire and Fear | Joseph Flanagan
93 — The Theologian’s Psyche: Notes Toward a Reconstruction of Depth Psychology | Robert M. Doran
143 — On the Possibility and Desirability of a Christian Psychotherapy | Bernard Tyrrell
187 — Christian Self-Discovery | Sebastian Moore
223 — Political Theology and “The Longer Cycle of Decline” | Frederick Lawrence
257 — The Production Process and Exponential Growth: A Study in Socio-Economics and Theology | Matthew L. Lamb
309 — Religious Knowledge | Bernard Lonergan
iii — Editorial Note
vii — Dedication
xi — Preface
1 — Teleology, Modern Science and Verification | Patrick H. Byrne
49 — “All my work has been introducing history into Catholic Theology” | Frederick E. Crowe
83 — Where the Late Lonergan Meets the Early Heidegger | Joseph Flanagan, S.J.
119 — Knowledge Makes a Noisy Entrance: The Struggle for Self-Appropriation in Law | Mary Ann Glendon
145 — The Drama of Living, and Lonergan’s Retrieval of Transcendence | Glenn Hughes
159 — Lonergan’s Early Essays on the Redemption of History | Joseph A. Komonchak
179 — Historicity and Eternity: Bernard Lonergan’s Transpositions and Differentiations | Matthew L. Lamb
229 — Lonergan’s Foundations for Constitutive Communication | Frederick Lawrence
279 — Spirituality and the Primacy of the Dramatic Pattern of Living | Sebastian Moore
297 — Coleridge, Newman and Lonergan: Conscience and Imagination in the Moral Argument of God’s Existence | Philip Rule, S.J.
319 — Bernard Lonergan and the Return of Ancient Practice | David W. Tracy
333 — Interview with Lonergan | Pierre Robert
iii — Dedication
vii — Editorial Note
1 — Image, Symbol, Cosmopolis: Art and the Critical Role of Culture | Glenn Hughes
21 — Still Life and Landscape: The Sacred in Secular Attire | Paul Kidder
35 — Painting as Spiritual: The Philosophical and Pedagogical Tasks | Paul Kidder
53 — What Bernard Lonergan Learned from Suzanne K. Langer | Richard Liddy
91 — In Water and in Blood | Sebastian Moore, O.S.B.
105 — Question and Imagination: Eric Voegelin’s Approach | John Ranieri
145 — Questions on the Fifth Level and the Processes of the Spiritual Subject | Pierre Robert
165 — Another Thing Needful: Reason , Feeling, and Imagination in 19th-Century Literature | Philip C. Rule, S.J.
179 — ‘Development’ and the Imagining Subject in Method | Hamish Swanston
213 — Complacentia boni and the Mission of the Church | Colleen Keene Webster
iii — Dedication
v — Editorial Note
1 — Metaphysics of Form, Matter, and Gender | Sr. Prudence Allen, R.S.M.
27 — Byway of the Cross: The Early Lonergan and Political Order | R. Michael Clark
45 — The Idea of the Descriptive Equality: Lonergan Explains Jefferson | John E. Coons/Patrick Brennan
77 — John Courtney Murray on Legitimate and Needed Social Plurality | Leon Hooper, S.J.
95 — Plurality, Love, Marriage: Debating Justice in the Family | Paulette Kidder
111 — Liberty, History, and the Common Good: An Exercise in Critical review | Michael McCarthy1
47 — Critical and Symbolic Realism: Lonergan and Coleridge | Sebastian Moore, O.S.B.
179 — Affinities of Lonergan and Voegelin | Mark D. Morelli
199 — Voegelin, Religious Experience and Immortality | Michael P. Morrissey
227 — Universal Viewpoint and Universal Humanity: Attunement or Discord in the Philosophies of Voegelin and Lonergan | Brendan Purcell
iii — Editorial Note
1 — Human Freedom | Dave Burrell, C.S.C.
7— Medieval Jewish, Islamic, and Christian Perspectives on Love and Will | Dave Burrell, C.S.C.
13 — The Structure and Rhythms of Love in Today’s World | Dave Burrell, C.S.C.
17 — Complacency and Concern in the Risen Life | Frederick Crowe, S.J.
33 — Resting in Reality: Reflecting on Crowe’s ‘Complacency and Concern’ | Mark Doorley
57 — ‘Complacency and Concern’ and a Basic Thesis on Grace | Robert Doran, S.J.
79 — The Motion of Operative and Cooperative Grace: Retrievals and Explorations | Jean-Marc LaPorte
95 — Limits, the Illimitable, and the Disciplined Imagination: George Eliot’s Middlemarch | Robert Lewis
115 — Early Christianity and the Public Realm: Troeltsch’s Distinctions of Gospel, Kingdom, and World | Michael McCarthy
127 — Enlightenment: Old and New | Hugo Meynell
141 — The Doxology of Joy | Sebastian Moore, O.S.B.
161 — Reflections on the Appropriation of Moral Consciousness | Elizabeth Morelli
189 — Lonergan’s Metaphysics of Value and Love: Some Proposed Clarifications and Implications | Michael Vertin
iii — Editorial Note
viii — Dedication
1 —The Contribution of the Nurse to the Human Good | Jean Belair
59 — Contexts and Horizons of Desire: Sebastian Moore’s Contributionto Fundamental Theology | Michael Paul Gallagher
73 — The Meditative Path: “The Monk and the Poet Are One” | Dorothy Judd Hall
99 — Grace, Christ, Redemption, Lonergan (In That Order) | Charles Hefling
115 — An Analogy for the Divine Self-Gift | Matthew Lamb
155 — Intersubjectivity, Groups, and Common Life | Kevin McGinley
173 — Where the Spirit of the Lord Is, There Is Freedom | Sebastian Moore
197 — Ressentiment and Redemption | Elizabeth Murray Morelli
229 — Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophy of Desire | Louis Roy
243 — Economic Analysis within Redemptive Praxis: An Achievementof Lonergan’s Third Decade | Michael Shute
265 — Theological Categories: The Transposition Needed forComparative Theology | Carla Mae Streeter
iii — Editor’s Introduction
ix — Dedication
1 — Beyond Onto-Theology: Negative Theology and Faith | David B. Burrell, CSC
13 — Modern Architecture and Ignatian Vision | Paul Kidder
27 — Authority and Its Exercise | Joseph Komonchak
43 — Understanding the Author as Artist: Composing Insight | William Mathews, SJ
77 — Critical Christian Renewal | Michael McCarthy
99 — What Is Democracy, Anyway? A Discussion between Lonergan and Rawls | Kenneth Melchin
117 — Authentication of Common Sense from Above Upwards: Mediating Self-Correcting Folk Psychology | Mark Morelli
141 — Images and Witnesses | Francesca Murphy
173 — Reflections on the Future of Education in Light of Montessori and Lonergan | Phyllis Wallbank
iii — Editor’s Introduction
viii — Photograph of William Alfred by Elsa Dorfman
1 — Is There a Constitutional Right To Privacy? | Michael Vertin
49 — The “Far Larger” Work of Insight’s Epilogue | Frank Braio
67 — Theology and Philosophy | David Burrell, CSC
83 — “ Et Judaeus Et Graecus E Methodo:” The Transcultural Mediation of Christian Meanings and Values in Lonergan | Ivo Coelho, SDB
107 — Snapshots of a Holy Man: Harvard Professor William Alfred | Dorothy Judd Hall
121 — Scholarship’s Impenetrable Wall | Sean McEvenue
139 — Foundations, the Subject of Psychology, and Science | Tom McGrath, SJ
153 — The Body Speaks and God Is a New Language | Sebastian Moore, OSB
173 — Method in the Arts and Sciences | William Murnion
199 — Kant’s Theory of Knowledge | Giovanni Sala, SJ
1 – The Future: Charting the Unknown with Lonergan | Frederick E. Crowe
23 – Reflections on Method in Systematic Theology | Robert M. Doran
53 – From Analogy of ‘Being’ to the Analogy of Being | David Burrell, CSC
67 – The Conversions of Paul in Light of Lonergan’s Theory of Conversion | Richard J. Cassidy
85 – Bernard Lonergan: Educationist and Philosopher | Joseph Fitzpatrick
95 – About What Might a “Girard-Lonergan ‘Conversation’” Be? | Charles C. Hefling
125 – The Future of American Cities | Paul Kidder
143 – Authority, Autonomy, and Authenticity | Michael McCarthy
163 – What God has Joined and Man Has Put Asunder | Sebastian Moore
175 – From the Historicity of Consciousness to the Ontology of the Person | Giovanni Rota
197 – The Encyclical Letter of Pope John Paul II, Fides et Ratio: A Service to Truth | Giovanni Sala
vi – “Leaping” | a poem by Dorothy Judd Hall
viii – “The Poet” | a poem by Patricia Benzmiller
1 – Kierkegaard and Lonergan on the Prospect of Cognitional-Existential Integration | Paul St. Amour
63 – The Sacred as Real: Eliade’s Ontology of the Sacred and Lonergan’s Philosophy of God | John Dadosky
87 – Over Thin Ice: Comments on ‘Gratia: Grace and Gratitude’ | Charles Hefling
121 – To Begin Anew: Reflections on Freedom, Destiny and Ethics in the Work of Bernard Lonergan and Julia Kristeva | Christine Jamieson
139 – Derrida and Lonergan on the Gift | Paulette Kidder
155 – Lonergan’s Critique of Aristotle’s Notion of Science | Michael Maxwell189 – Historicity and Normative Order | Jerome Miller
203 – A Word for Sexual Desire | Sebastian Moore, OSB
225 – Theology, Philosophy, and Interiority: Experience Speaks to Experience | James Pambrun
1 – The Postconciliar Jesuit Congregations: Social Commitment Constructing a New World of Religious Meaning | Peter Bisson, S.J.
37 – Reflections on Ignatian Soteriology: The Contributions of Ignacio Ellacuría | Kevin Burke, S.J.
51 – The Models of Avery Dulles and Some References to Lonergan | Richard Cassidy
61 – Francis Xavier, Lonergan, and the Problem of Missions Today | Ivo Coelho, S.D.B.
83 – Ignatian Themes in the Thought of Bernard Lonergan: Revisiting a Topic that Deserves Further Reflection | Robert M. Doran, S.J.
107 – Gerard Manley Hopkins and Lonergan’s Notion of Elemental Meaning | Glenn Hughes
137 – Thinking with Fr. Richardson | Paul Kidder
149 – Ignatian Discernment from Lonergan’s Perspective | Colin J. Maloney
197 – Collingwood and Lonergan on Historical Knowledge | Robert Miner211 – Trivium Pursuit: Lonergan on Aquinas | Gilles Mongeau, S.J.
225 – Joyful Sorrow | Elizabeth Murray
235 – What Really Happened at Vatican II – A Response to O’Malley and Schloesser | Neil Ormerod
251 – Gratia Christi, The Heart of the Theology of Karl Rahner: Ignatian Influences in the Codex De Gratia Christi(1937/38) and its Importance for the Development of His Work | Roman Siebenrock
267 – The Finality of Human Spirit: From Maréchal to Lonergan | Michael Vertin
287 – The Transformation of Consciousness: Walter J. Ong and the Presence of the Word in the Making of Culture | João Vila-Chã
325 – Raymund Schwager, S.J.: Dramatic Theology | Nikolaus Wandinger
v — Editor’s Note
vi — Contributors To This Issue
vii — Table of Contents
1 — History and Social Theory in Ecclesiology | Joseph A. Komonchak
55 — The Foundation of Heresy | Quentin Quesnell
83 — Theological Models: An Exercise in Dialectics | David W. Tracy
109 — Culture and Morality | Joseph Flanagan
147 — Dramatic Artistry in the Third Stage of Meaning | Robert M. Doran
201 — Christotherapy and the Healing/Transformation of the Communal Consciousness with Special Reference to the American Consciousness | Bernard J. Tyrrell
231 — “The Modern Philosophic Differentiation of Consciousness” or What is the Enlightenment? | Frederick Lawrence
281 — Methodology, Metascience, and Political Theology | Matthew L. Lamb
iii – Editor’s Introduction
1 – Consilience? Edward O. Wilson, Lonergan, and Other Proposals for the Unity/Differentiation of Knowledge | Philip Berryman
17 – Foundations of “The Ethics of Embryonic Stem Cell Research” | Pat Byrne
71 – Action Research as a Method of Praxis | David Coghlan, S.J.
87 – Edging (Toward) the Center | M. Shawn Copeland
93 – “Centering the Church”: A Development in Ecclesiology Based on Balthasar and Lonergan | John Dadosky
105 – Envisioning a Systematic Theology | Robert Doran, S.J.
127 – Another Perhaps Permanently Valid Achievement: Lonergan on Christ’s (Self-) Knowledge | Charles Hefling
165 – Lonergan and Post-Conciliar Ecclesiology | Joseph Komonchak
185 – Emerging Probabilities and the Operators of Musical Evolution | Greg Lauzon
197 – Theology as Praxis in Augustine’s Confessions: A Community Founded on the Humanity of Christ | Paul LaChance
223 – Startling Strangeness: A Memoir | Richard Liddy
253 – Toward a Catholic Christianity: A Personal Narrative | Michael McCarthy
271 – “At the still point” where “there is only the dance”: Logos, Lonergan, and T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets | Gregory Maillet
295 – “A Perhaps Not Numerous Center” | Hugo Meynell
305 – Theology, Philosophy, & Interiority: Experience Speaks to Experience | Mark Morelli
337 – Shankara and Aquinas: A Case Study in Comparative Ethics | William Murnion
357 – Robert Doran and Pastoral Theology: Reflections from Nairobi, Kenya | Gerard Whelan
391 – The Adolescent and the Use of the Philosopher Lonergan’s Questions | Phyllis Wallbank
iii – Editor’s Introduction
1 – Beyond MySpace: Grounding Postmodern Identity in Lonergan’s Interiority Analysis | Alison Benders
17 – General Congregation 35: The Jesuits and a Corporate Use of the Fifth (Religious) Level of Meaning: The Discovery of Love | Peter Bisson
33 – Autonomous Reason versus Tradition-directed Inquiry: Mulla Sadra, Lonergan, MacIntyre, and Taylor | David Burrell
43 – What is Our Scale of Value Preference? | Patrick H. Byrne
65 – Lonergan’s Economic Ideas Today: Functional Distinctions in Spending, The Pure Cycle of Innovative Growth, the Good of Order, and the Baseball Diamond | Eileen de Neeve
85 – Preserving Lonergan’s Understanding of Thomist Metaphysics: A Proposal and an Example | Robert M. Doran
103 – Lonergan’s Early Short Papers and Devotional Works | Philip Egan
125 – Robert Moses and the Common Good | Paul Kidder
145 – Upstream Medicine | Robert Luby
179 – Breathing Back: Lonergan, Literary Creativity, and the Spirit of the Lord | Gregory Maillet
193 – Faith and Lonergan | Colin Maloney
241 – The Idea of a University, Reductionism, and Lonergan on Emergence | William Mathews
263 – Conversion | Michael McCarthy
277 – The Second Moment of Intellectual Conversion | Elizabeth Murray
295 – Beyond Moral Suasion: Reading Method in Theology in “Racist America” | Jon Nilson
303 – Potency and Structure | David Oyler
313 – On the Validity of Extrinsic Causality in Proofs for the Existence of God | Paul St. Amour
349 – Leaving Self-Centeredness: Lonergan and Cognitive Science on Art | Cloe Taddei Ferretti
369 – Meeting Lonergan’s Challenge to Educators | Raymond Topley
383 – Implicit Theology, Authentic Subjectivity. and Karl Rahner’s “Anonymous Christian” | Nikolaus Wandinger
v — Editor’s Note
vii — Table of Contents
viii — List of Contributors
1 — An Exploration of Lonergan’s New Notion of Value | Frederick E. Crowe, S.J.
25 — “Persons as Originating Values”: A Primer (Reader) From Lonergan’s Thought on the Topic of Values | Cathleen Going
33 — The Self-Causing Subject: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Knowing | Joseph F. Flanagan, S.J.
53 — An Improbable Christian Vision and the Economic Rhythms of the Second Million Years | Philip McShane
83 — The Language of Love | Sebastian Moore
107 — Pastoral Theology: Can There Be an Institutional Format for Praxis? | Charles Mulligan
125 — “Dynamics of Christotherapy” and the Issue of a De Jure Psychotherapeutic Pluralism | Bernard J. Tyrrell, S.J.
149 — Philosophy of God, Theology, and the Problems of Evil | Michael Vertin
179 — A Post-Hegelian Philosophy of Religion | Bernard Lonergan
v — Editor’s Notes
viii — List of Contributors
1 — Dialectically-Opposed Phenomenologies of Knowing: A Pedagogical Elaboration of Basic Ideal-Types | Michael Vertin
27 — The Ethics of Jesus, Christ-Centered Ethics and Lonergan’s Method | Richard J. Cassidy
41 — Suffering Servant and the Scale of Values | Robert M. Doran, S.J.
69 — A Hope Embodied in Story: Flannery O’Connor’s Vision | Arthur L. Kennedy
85 — Original Sin, Sex, Resurrection and Trinity | Sebastian Moore
99 — The Primacy of Spiritual Experience in Theological Reflection | William Reiser, S.J.
115 — Theology and/or Religious Studies: Bernard Lonergan’s Option | Phillip Boo Riley
141 — Language, Prayer, and the Dynamics of Transformation | Nancy C. Ring
167 — Christian Imagination and Christian Prayer | Bernard J. Tyrrell, S.J.
iii — Editor’s Note
1 — Son and Spirit: Tension in the Divine Missions? | Frederick E. Crowe, S.J.
23 — Primary Process and the Spiritual Unconscious | Robert M. Doran, S.J.
49 — Faith, Charity, Hope | Tad Dunne, S.J.
71 — The Dialectics of Theory and Praxis within Paradigm Analysis | Matthew L. Lamb
115 — Intellectual Conversion and Science Education | William Matthews, SJ
145 — The New Life | Sebastian Moore, O.S.B.
163 — Lonergan and the Foundation of a Contemporary Mystical Theology | James Robertson Price III
197 — Whether Sacraments Liberate Communities: Some Reflections upon Image as an Agent in Achieving Freedom | Stephen Happel
219 — Redemption and Intellectual Conversion: Notes on Lonergan’s “Christology Today” | Charles C. Hefling, Jr.
263 — Basic Christian Community: An Issue of ‘Mind and the Mystery of Christ’ | Fred Lawrence
289 — The Fundamental Attitudes of the Liberally Educated Person: Foundational Dialectics | Emil Piscitelli
iii — Editor’s Notes
1 — The Fabric of Lonergan’s Thought | Patrick H. Byrne
185 — From Psychic Conversion to the Dialectic of Community | Robert M. Doran, S.J.
109 — Bernard Lonergan and James Joyce: Literature as De-Conversion | Toby Foshay
127 — Elements of Basic Communication | Frederick G. Lawrence
143 — Systematics, Communications, Actual Contexts | Philip McShane
175 — A Pseudo-Problem of Communication and Understanding | Hugo Meynell
195 — Reversing the Counter-Position: The Argumentum ad Hominem in Philosophic Dialogue | Mark D. Morell
i231 — The Promise of Narrative Theology: A Strategy of Communication | John Navone, S.J.
239 — Psychological Conversion, Methods of Healing, and Communication | Bernard Tyrrell, S.J.
iii — Editor’s Note
1 — Mystery and Modern Mathematics | Patrick H. Byrne
35 — An Expansion of Lonergan’s Notion of Value | Frederick E. Crowe, S.J.
59 — Duality and Dialectic | Robert M. Doran, S.J.
85 — Preaching: A Mutual Self-Meditation of the Word of God, Preacher, and a Congregation | Peter Drilling
105 — The Meaning of God Incarnate according to Friedrich Schleiermacher; or, Whether Lonergan is Appropriately Regarded as ‘A Schleiermacher for Our Time,’ and Why Not | Charles C. Hefling, Jr.
179 — Hamlet and the Affective Roots of Decision | Glenn Hughes and Sebastian Moore
203 — Meaning, Mystery, and the History of Consciousness | Thomas J. McPartland
269 — History, Ethics, and Emergent Probability | Kenneth Melchin
295 — Pinning Down the Meaning | Quentin Quesnell
313 — The Crisis of the Human Good | Terry J. Tekippe
331 — Feelings as Apprehensive-Intentional Responses to Values | Bernard J. Tyrrell, S.J.
iii — Editor’s Note
1 — Insight and the Retrieval of Nature | Patrick H. Byrne
61 — Insight: Genesis and Ongoing Context | Frederick E. Crowe, S.J.
85 — Insight: Chapters 1-5 | Joseph Flanagan, S.J.
109 — The Affirmation of Order: Therapy for Modernity in Bernard Lonergan’s Analysis of Judgment | Glenn Hughes and Sebastian Moore, O.S.B.
135 — Ethics in Insight | Kenneth R. Melchin
149 — How Right Plato Was | Hugo Meynell
165 — The Forming and Transforming of Ego: An Explanatory Psychology of Soteriology | Sebastian Moore, O.S.B.
191 — On First Reading Insight | Hamish Swanston
213 — Lonergan’s “Three Basic Questions” and a Philosophy of Philosophies | Michael Verti
n249 — Knowing, Objectivity, and Reality: Insight and Beyond | Michael Vertin
265 — What Kind of Proof is Insight 19? | Quentin Quesnell
iii — Editorial Note
v — Errata
1 — Imaginal Theologies of History | Tad Dunne
25 — Spirit and Mission of the “Faithful Remnant”: A Study of Community in the Isaiah Scroll | Ann Johnston, R.S.C.J.
43 — Lonergan’s Apprenticeship 1904-46: The Education of Desire | William Matthews, S.J.
89 — Mission and Spirit: Questions of probability and Providence | Philip McShane
99 — Lonergan and Ricoeur: Emerging Complementary Philosophical Approaches for the Theological Views of Science | James R. Pambrun
145 — The Structure of Christian Prayer and its Integration with the Sciences | Eduardo Perez Valera, S.J.
195 — Intentionality Analysis, the Church, and Women’s Spirituality | Nancy Ring
209 — Grace, Mediation, and Liturgical Orientations | Louis Roy, O.P.
225 — Doing Theology in the Phillipine Context | Walter L. Ysaac, S.J.