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2 days ago · A new world and a new mission. During the first session of the Synod on Synodality (October 2023), many delegates were surprised, and consoled, to be introduced to the new 'digital continent' and the emerging mission of the Church 'there'. Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ considers how a concept that was key to Jesuit philosopher, Bernard Lonergan ...
1 day ago · Indeed, Bernard Lonergan argued that Catholic scholars of the past had treated truth as being “so objective as to get along without minds”, and he wrote of a Catholicism that so insisted on the objectivity of truth as to leave out human subjects and their needs (Lonergan 2004, p. 204; Lonergan 2016, pp. 61–62). Despite the disdain shown by some Catholics for Fundamentalism, it appears that the intellectual histories of each may have more in common that the other suspects.
5 days ago · More recently, the Jesuit scholar Bernard Lonergan (1904–1984) identified core dynamics of our knowing and doing, including the doing that is valuing. To begin to see how our core dynamics (described by Lonergan) weave through the twelve steps (described by St. Thomas) needs further adventures in noticing and describing key elements in human experience.
1 day ago · One statistic presently available is that less than 1% of the human population control 50% of the world’s wealth. The other 50% of wealth is shared out amongst the other 99% of the population. What follows is a few comments on problems in economic theory and Bernard Lonergan’s solution to those problems. What is the origin of such disparity?
3 days ago · As Bernard Lonergan, a leading philosopher of our century, said: “Man’s unrestricted desire to know is mated to a limited capacity to attain knowledge.” He ...
5 days ago · Mary Evelyn Tucker, Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase (Peru, IL: Open Court, 2003); with John Grim, Ecology and Religion (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2014); Anne Marie Dalton, A Theology for the Earth: The Contributions of Thomas Berry and Bernard Lonergan (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1999); Dalton, Ecotheology and the Practice of Hope (Albany, NY: SUNY, 2011); and Heather Eaton, Ecofeminism and Globalization: Exploring Culture, Context, and Religion (Oxford ...
4 days ago · I was grateful to two of my professors there, Fr. Bernard Lonergan and Fr. Frederick Copleston, for teaching me that St Thomas’ own writings were much more worth reading than popular Thomists’ textbooks, and that St Thomas was not the only medieval thinker who deserved attentive study.
