The Jesuit philosopher and theologian discusses the heuristic structures of empirical method, common sense, the activity of insight, and the processes through which man puts his creative intelligence to work

Insight: A Study of Human Understanding

Politics & Social Sciences

Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Philosophy

Harpercollins

Method in Theology stands with Insight as Bernard Lonergan’s most important work. It is Lonergan’s answer to those who would argue that in this time of cultural change and dissolution, the believer is afloat on a sea of multiplying theologies, without rudder or compass. Lonergan was resolute in his refusal to be defeatist on this point. While agreeing that theology must continually change to mediate between religion and culture, he worked out an integral method to guide and control this ongoing process. Method in Theology is the fruit of this labour. This critical edition has benefited from extensive research into Lonergan's typescripts and from consulting the recordings from several institutes where he lectured over the course of the work’s development. Lonergan's intention was to provide a set of methods that would guide a collaborative community in the ongoing construction of a theology that would move from recovery of the data through resolution of conflicts to contemporary formulations and applications. With this work, the cognitional theory of Insight: A Study of Human Understanding underwent a surprising set of developments in the form of what he calls functional specialization.

Method in theology,

Religion & Spirituality

Darton, Longman, and Todd

Grace and freedom: operative grace in the thought of St Thomas Aquinas,

Herder and Herder

Introducing the thought of Bernard Lonergan;: Three papers reprinted from "Collection",

A second collection: Papers

The way to Nicea: The dialectical development of trinitarian theology : a translation [from the Latin] by Conn O'Donovan from the first part of De Deo Trino

Method in Theology stands, with Insight, as Bernard Lonergan's most important work. It is Lonergan's answer to those who would argue that in this time of cultural change and dissolution the believer is afloat on a sea of multiplying theologies, without rudder or compass. Lonergan was resolute in his refusal to be defeatist on this point. While agreeing that theology must continually change to mediate between religion and culture, he worked out an integral method to guide and control this ongoing process.
This is a reprint of the 1973 edition. A new annotated edition of Method in Theology will be published eventually as a part of the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan.
Bernard 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.

Method in theology

A Study of Human Understanding, Volume 3 (Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan) [Paperback] Bernard Lonergan (Author), Frederick E. Crowe (Editor), Robert M. Doran (Editor)

Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan

Lonergan Research Institute

Doran, Robert M.

Crowe, Frederick E.

Univ of Toronto Pr

Insight is Bernard Lonergan's masterwork. It aim is nothing less than insight into insight itself, a comprehensive view of knowledge and understanding, and to state what one needs to understand and how one proceeds to understand it.In Lonergan's own words: 'Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but also you will possess a fixed base, and invariant pattern, opening upon all further developments of understanding.'The editors of the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan have established the definitive text for Insight after examining all the variant forms in Lonergan's manuscripts and papers. The volume includes introductory material and annotation to enable the reader to appreciate more fully this challenging work.

Insight;: A study of human understanding,

Philosophical Library

3rd Collection: Papers by Bernard J.F. Lonergan, S.J.

Christian Books & Bibles

Paulist Pr

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