The Lonergan Reader

, by Lonergan, Bernard J. F.; Morelli, Elizabeth A.; Morelli, Mark D.

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In order to make Lonergan?s unique contribution to philosophy and theology accessible to students and teachers, the editors of The Lonergan Reader have brought together in a single volume selections that represent the depth and breadth of his thought.

INTRODUCTION

(1)

Bernard Lonergan: A Biographical Sketch

(7)

Lonergan's Place in Culture

(15)

The Selections

(3)

PART ONE Insight: A Study of Human Understanding: Selections

(332)

I Introduction to Insight

(15)

1 The Original Preface

(4)

2 Preface

(3)

3 Introduction

(6)

II The Act of Insight

(30)

1 A Dramatic Instance

(4)

2 Definition

(6)

3 Higher Viewpoints

(6)

4 Inverse Insight

(4)

5 The Empirical Residue

(5)

6 Mathematical and Scientific Insights Compared

(4)

III The Complementarity of Classical and Statistical Investigations

(21)

1 Classical Heuristic Structures

(4)

2 Statistical Heuristic Structures

(4)

3 The Complementarity of Classical and Statistical Investigations

(1)

4 Complementarity in the Known

(11)

IV Common Sense and Its Subject

(26)

1 Common Sense as Intellectual

(7)

2 The Subjective Field of Common Sense

105

(18)

V Common Sense as Object

123

(30)

1 The Dynamic Structure

124

(2)

2 The Dialectic of Community

126

(2)

3 Individual Bias

128

(4)

4 Group Bias

132

(3)

5 General Bias and the Longer Cycle of Decline

135

(18)

VI Things and Bodies

153

(9)

1 The General Notion of the Thing

154

(3)

2 Bodies

157

(3)

3 Summary

160

(2)

VII Judgment

162

(16)

1 The Notion of Judgment

163

(7)

2 The General Form of Reflective Insight

170

(1)

3 Concrete Judgments of Fact

171

(2)

4 Insights into Concrete Situations

173

(5)

VIII Self-Affirmation of the Knower

178

(20)

1 The Notion of Consciousness

180

(2)

2 Empirical, Intelligent, and Rational Consciousness

182

(3)

3 The Unity of Consciousness

185

(1)

4 The Unity as Given

186

(2)

5 Self-Affirmation

188

(1)

6 Self-Affirmation as Immanent Law

189

(4)

7 Description and Explanation

193

(3)

8 The Impossibility of Revision

196

(2)

IX The Notion of Being

198

(13)

1 A Definition

198

(3)

2 An Unrestricted Notion

201

(2)

3 A Spontaneous Notion

203

(4)

4 An All-Pervasive Notion

207

(1)

5 The Core of Meaning

208

(3)

X The Notion of Objectivity

211

(11)

1 The Principal Notion

212

(2)

2 Absolute Objectivity

214

(2)

Normative Objectivity

216

(2)

4 Experiential Objectivity

218

(2)

5 Characteristics of the Notion

220

(2)

XI Method in Metaphysics

222

(24)

1 The Underlying Problem

223

(5)

2 A Definition of Metaphysics

228

(5)

3 Method in Metaphysics

233

(5)

4 Universal Doubt

238

(4)

5 Empiricism

242

(2)

XII Development

246

(17)

1 Finality

247

(1)

2 The Notion of Development

248

(4)

3 Genetic Method

252

(1)

4 Human Development and Genuineness

253

(10)

XIII Truth and Interpretation

263

(12)

1 The Criterion of Turth

264

(2)

2 The Appropriation of Truth

266

(4)

3 The Notion of a Universal Viewpoint

270

(5)

XIV The Problem of Liberation

275

(16)

1 The Decision

276

(3)

2 The Problem of Liberation

279

(12)

XV Knowledge of God

291

(17)

1 The Immanent Source of Transcendence

292

(3)

2 The Affirmation of God

295

(8)

3 Conclusion

303

(5)

XVI The Problem of Evil and Its Solution

308

(32)

1 The Problem

310

(6)

2 The Existence of a Solution

316

(1)

3 The Heuristic Structure of the Solution

317

(15)

4 Belief

332

(8)

XVII Self-Appropriation

340

(21)

1 Self-Appropriation

340

(17)

2 The Value of Self-Appropriation

357

(4)

PART TWO From Insight to Method in Theology

361

(82)

I A Definition of Art

363

(13)

1 Pattern

363

(1)

2 Experiential

364

(1)

3 Pure Pattern

365

(1)

4 Purely Experiential

366

(1)

5 Release

367

(1)

6 Elemental Meaning

368

(2)

7 Objectification

370

(2)

8 Symbolic Meaning

372

(1)

9 Ulterior Significance

373

(2)

10 Conclusion

375

(1)

II Openness and Religious Experience

376

(4)

1 Philosophy of Religious Experience

376

(1)

2 Openness as Fact, Achievement, and Gift

377

(1)

3 Openness and Religious Experience

378

(2)

III Cognitional Structure

380

(7)

1 Dynamic Structure

381

(1)

2 Human Knowing as Dynamic Structure

381

(2)

3 Consciousness and Self-Knowledge

383

(4)

IV Dimensions of Meaning

387

(15)

1 Meaning and the World of the Subject

387

(3)

2 Control of Meaning

390

(1)

3 Conclusion

400

(2)

V The Future of Thomism

402

(6)

1 Classical Thomism

402

(2)

2 Thomism for Tomorrow

404

(3)

3 Conclusion

407

(1)

VI Theology in Its New Context

408

(12)

VII The Subject

420

(16)

1 The Neglected Subject

421

(3)

2 The Truncated Subject

424

(2)

3 The Immanentist Subject

426

(3)

4 The Existential Subject

429

(5)

5 The Alienated Subject

434

(2)

VIII Pluralism, Classicism, and Relativism

436

(7)

1 Pluralism and Classicist Culture

436

(2)

2 Pluralism and Relativism

438

(5)

PART THREE Method in Theology: Selections

443

(100)

I Transcendental Method

445

(10)

1 A Preliminary Notion

446

(1)

2 Four Levels of Conscious Intentionality

447

(3)

3 The Functions of Transcendental Method

450

(5)

II The Human Good

455

(11)

1 Judgments of Value

456

(4)

2 The Structure of the Human Good

460

(6)

III Realms of Meaning

466

(5)

IV Religion

471

(12)

1 The Question of God

472

(2)

2 Religious Experience

474

(2)

3 The Dialectical Character of Religious Development

476

(1)

4 Faith

477

(2)

5 A Technical Note

479

(4)

V Functional Specialties

483

(10)

1 Three Types of Specialization

484

(1)

2 An Eightfold Division

485

(5)

3 Grounds of the Division

490

(3)

VI History and Historical Method

493

(25)

1 Nature and History

494

(5)

2 Critical History

499

(9)

3 Heuristic Structures in Historical Method

508

(10)

VII Dialectic

518

(13)

1 Horizons

519

(2)

2 Conversions and Breakdowns

521

(6)

3 Dialectic: The Problem

527

(2)

4 Dialectic: The Structure

529

(2)

VIII Foundations

531

(12)

1 Categories

532

(3)

2 General Theological Categories

535

(2)

3 Special Theological Categories

537

(4)

4 Use of the Categories

541

(2)

PART FOUR Late Writings

543

(56)

I Static and Dynamic Viewpoints

545

(5)

II Dialectic of Authority

550

(8)

III Social Alienation and the Second Enlightenment

558

(8)

1 Social Alienation

558

(4)

2 The Second Enlightement

562

(4)

IV Healing and Creating in History

566

(11)

V Praxis

577

(3)

VI Natural Right and Historical Mindedness

580

(16)

1 Historicity

582

(2)

2 Natural Right in Historicity

584

(4)

3 The Dialectic of History

588

(8)

VII The Degrees of Self-Transcendence

596

(3)

CHRONOLOGY

599

(2)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

601

(6)

Works by Lonergan

601

(1)

Selected Other Works

602

(5)

INDEX

607

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