Volume 25, No.3, September 2004 - The Bernard Lonergan Web Site
Volume 25, No.3, September 2004 - The Bernard Lonergan Web Site
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N E W S L E T T E R 2 5 : 3 S E P T E M B E R 2 0 0 4<br />
PUBLICATIONS<br />
Budenholzer, Frank E. ‘Emergence, Probability, and Reductionism.’ Zygon: Journal of Religion and<br />
Science 39/2 (<strong>2004</strong>) 339-56.<br />
‘Philosopher-theologian <strong>Bernard</strong> J.F. <strong>Lonergan</strong> defines emergence as the process in which<br />
“otherwise coincidental manifolds of lower conjugates acts invite the higher integration effected<br />
by higher conjugate forms… <strong>The</strong> meaning and implications of <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s concept of emergence<br />
are considered in the context of the problem of reductionism in natural sciences. Examples are<br />
taken primarily from physics, chemistry, and biology.’ (From the Abstract.)<br />
Byrne, Patrick H. ‘<strong>The</strong> Good Under Construction and Research Vocation of a Catholic University.’<br />
Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice 7/3 (<strong>2004</strong>) 320-38.<br />
‘Relying on the works of Philip Gleason, Ignatius of Loyola, and <strong>Bernard</strong> <strong>Lonergan</strong>, the author<br />
provides a framework for the important research function of Catholic universities and conceives<br />
the mission of Catholic institutions of higher education as contributing to the ongoing, creative,<br />
and redemptive work that is ultimately God’s plan for humanity.’ (From the Abstract.)<br />
Dadosky, John D. ‘Healing the Psychological Subject: Towards a Fourfold Notion of Conversion’<br />
<strong>The</strong>oforum 35 (<strong>2004</strong>) 73-91.<br />
‘This paper addresses some of the developments in the theoretical reflection on conversion<br />
following <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s threefold differentiation of conversion as intellectual, moral, and religious,<br />
and it also addresses the issues arising from this development. Specifically, the paper begins by<br />
focusing on the contribution of Robert Doran (psychic conversion) and <strong>Bernard</strong> Tyrrell<br />
(affectional conversion). Each has made significant contributions to integrate further <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s<br />
theories into psychology. <strong>The</strong>re follows an attempt to situate these developments in light of<br />
<strong>Lonergan</strong>’s comments concerning “affective” conversion in an attempt to bring some clarity and<br />
succinctness to the discussion.’ (From the Abstract.)<br />
Ewens, Thomas. ‘Déconstruire le Design,’ Dissocier les Raisons: Bilan et perspective en anthropologie<br />
clinique,’ tétralogiques 10.(Presses Universitataires de Rennes) Fall 1996, 11-20.<br />
Proposes that the persistent ambiguity about the meaning of ‘design’ found among artists,<br />
architects, and critics can be effectively resolved by the interiority analysis proposed by<br />
<strong>Lonergan</strong>.<br />
Maloney, Raymond. ‘Rahner and <strong>Lonergan</strong> on Spirituality.’ Louvain Studies 28 (2003) 295-310.<br />
‘<strong>The</strong>re are two issues in particular which will enable us to bring out the contrast between the two<br />
authors. <strong>The</strong> first arises within ethics and moral theology. It concerns the relationship between the<br />
general principles of moral behaviour and how these are applicable to particular situations. <strong>The</strong><br />
second issue comes from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius and the procedure described there<br />
for discerning God’s will in the particular decisions of life.’<br />
McLaughlin, Michael T. Knowledge, Consciousness and Religious Conversion in <strong>Lonergan</strong> and<br />
Aurobindo. Rome: Editrice Pontificia Università Gregoriana, 2003.<br />
‘<strong>The</strong> following study is a comparison of the theological and philosophical views of the Catholic<br />
theologian <strong>Bernard</strong> <strong>Lonergan</strong> with those of the modern Hindu philosopher Sri Aurobindo Ghose<br />
on the topics of knowledge, consciousness and religious conversion. <strong>The</strong> structure of this work<br />
proceeds from a conviction that it is impossible to create a lasting and coherent theology without<br />
reference to metaphysics.’ (From the Preface. This title was previously listed [see LSN 24:4<br />
{2003} 2] but without any indication of its content apart from the title.)
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Meyer, Ben F. <strong>The</strong> Aims of Jesus (San Jose, California: Pickwick Publications, 2002.<br />
A reprint of Meyer’s 1979 book (see LSN 1/3 [1980] 13), with a new introduction by N.T.<br />
Wright.<br />
In his introduction, Wright writes: ‘Ben Meyer’s fist great and (I hope) lasting contribution in this<br />
book is both to highlight the need for a fully articulated historical method and to argue himself for<br />
one in particular. He drew deeply on the work of the philosopher <strong>Bernard</strong> <strong>Lonergan</strong>, while most<br />
New Testament scholars never read philosophy and hermeneutics from one year’s end to the next<br />
(and so condemn themselves to uncritical assumptions about what they are doing and how it<br />
relates to other tasks). Meyer knew what the issues were and where to go for help.’<br />
Pen, Robert. Communication as Mutual Self-Mediation in Context: <strong>Bernard</strong> <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s Philosophy of<br />
Communication. Extract of Doctoral Dissertation. Rome: Salesian Pontifical University, <strong>2004</strong>.<br />
(See below under ‘DISSERTATIONS & THESES.’)<br />
Sala, Giovanni B. Kants ,,Kritik der praktischen Vernunft‘‘ Ein Kommentar. Darmstadt:<br />
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, <strong>2004</strong>.<br />
‘In this work a fifty-page study of Kant’s ethical doctrine is preface to the three-hundred-page<br />
actual commentary on his critique of practical reason, the first time such a commentary has<br />
appeared in the German language. Sala, of course, makes his personal input and, as we might<br />
expect, his reliance on <strong>Lonergan</strong> shows up in footnote references here and there.’ (Frederick E.<br />
Crowe.)<br />
Spaccapelo, Natalino. ‘Crisi epocale e nuovo compito educativo.’ Gregorianum 85/2 (<strong>2004</strong>) 345-73.<br />
‘Everyone recognizes that our present times are in crisis. This article begins by setting out the<br />
essential elements of the crisis: its origin in the scientific manner of envisaging the world, its<br />
axial character…, and its economic and social consequences. <strong>The</strong> second half of the article draws<br />
from <strong>Bernard</strong> <strong>Lonergan</strong> some elements capable of going along with reflection on this<br />
crisis…facing them from different points of view, epistemological as well as anthropological or<br />
pedagogical. <strong>Lonergan</strong> is celebrated for his Insight, a philosophical work which introduces one to<br />
the theological reflection that he developed in Method in <strong>The</strong>ology. [O]n account of the economic<br />
crisis of the thirties, the time of his youth, he was interested in economic questions before<br />
becoming a philosopher and a theologian.’ (From the Abstract.)<br />
Starkloff, Carl F. A <strong>The</strong>ology of the In-Between: <strong>The</strong> Value of Syncretic Process. Milwaukee: Marquette<br />
University Press, 2002.<br />
‘…among Christians the word [‘syncretism’] has signified theological distortion, although<br />
anthropologists have employed it neutrally to describe the phenomenon of religious mixtures<br />
resulting from intercultural contacts. <strong>The</strong> present work seeks to “revive” the ancient meaning of<br />
syncretism, since the book’s main thesis is that such mixing grows out of a human desire for unity<br />
and synthesis. More, among tribal peoples, it is an attempt to understand and rationalize their<br />
situation. While acknowledging that not all syncretism is good… this book argues that “syncretic<br />
process” is a historical movement by which Christianity can understand itself better as a faith to<br />
be shared by all cultures. Thus, once again, theology becomes “faith seeking understanding,” ’<br />
Chapter 2, pp. 61-87, draws on <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s thought on methodology, the transcendental precepts,<br />
conversion and the role of the functional specialties.<br />
Swan, Michael. ‘Thinkers in town for Lonergran [sic] conference.’ <strong>The</strong> Catholic Register [Toronto],<br />
Weeks of July <strong>25</strong>-August 1, <strong>2004</strong>, 9.<br />
‘<strong>The</strong> big thinkers are coming to town to talk about, think over and celebrate the man they believe<br />
made the most significant contribution to Catholic philosophy and theology in the 20 th century—<br />
Canadian Jesuit <strong>Bernard</strong> <strong>Lonergan</strong>.’ An article in the diocesan newspaper anticipating the 2 nd<br />
International <strong>Lonergan</strong> Workshop commemorating <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s birth a hundred years ago and
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honouring Frederick E. Crowe, S.J.<br />
Vertin, Michael. ‘<strong>The</strong> Two Modes of Human Love: Thomas Aquinas as Interpreted by Frederick Crowe.’<br />
Irish <strong>The</strong>ological Quarterly 69 (<strong>2004</strong>) 31-45.<br />
‘<strong>The</strong> author gives an account of <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s approach to Aquinas, of <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s influence on<br />
Frederick Crowe, and of Crowe’s application of some of <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s ideas to the interpretation of<br />
Aquinas on the two kinds of love that he terms complacent love and concerned love.’ (From the<br />
Abstract.)<br />
REVIEWS<br />
Doran, Robert M. <strong>The</strong>ological Foundations, 2 vol. (See LSN 17:1 [1996] 1.)<br />
Shute, Michael. Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 32/3 (2003) 369-73.<br />
Kanaris, Jim. Philosophy of Religion: From Philosophy of God to Philosophy of Religious Studies. (See<br />
LSN 23:3 [2002] 1.)<br />
Roy, Louis. <strong>The</strong> Thomist 68 (<strong>2004</strong>) 341-42.<br />
Ormerod, Neil. Method, Meaning and Revelation: <strong>The</strong> Meaning and Function of Revelation in <strong>Bernard</strong><br />
<strong>Lonergan</strong>’s Method in <strong>The</strong>ology. (See LSN 21:3 [2000] 12.)<br />
Roy, Louis. New Blackfriars 82 (2001) 597-98.<br />
Roy, Louis. Transcendental Experiences: Phenomenology and Critique. (See LSN 22:3 [2001] 3.)<br />
Faulconer, James E. Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 32/3 (2003) 384-85.<br />
Allard, Maxime. Science et esprit 54:1, Jan-Apr 2002.<br />
DISSERTATIONS & THESES<br />
Gaetz, Ivan Kenneth. An Exploration and Expansion of <strong>Bernard</strong> <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s Intentionality Analysis for<br />
Educational Philosophy. <strong>The</strong>sis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of<br />
Educational Studies, University of British Columbia, December 2003.<br />
‘This study consists of an exploration and expansion of <strong>Bernard</strong> <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s intentionality<br />
analysis into the field of educational philosophy. It contends that <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s account of the<br />
structure and operations of human consciousness directed toward human experience,<br />
understanding, judgment and decision offers a mode of understanding a range of key topics in the<br />
field of secular education and educational philosophy. Moreover, the integrative nature of<br />
<strong>Lonergan</strong>’s intentionality analysis provides a means of systematically ordering issues in<br />
educational philosophy related to human cognitive and existential development.’ (From the<br />
Abstract.)<br />
Gorrell, Paul John. Erotic Conversion: Coming Out of Christian Erotophobia. Dissertation for the degree<br />
of Doctor of Philosophy, Drew University, <strong>2004</strong>. Adviser: Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz.<br />
‘This dissertation analyzes the fear of sexuality and erotic pleasure, called erotophobia, which has<br />
heavily influenced the churches and the construction of Christian sexual ethics… This project<br />
develops a sexual liberation theology that moves beyond erotophobia by utilizing the theme of<br />
conversion understood as a radical change in world views, a concept developed by <strong>Bernard</strong><br />
<strong>Lonergan</strong>… <strong>The</strong> dissertation argues that if <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s understanding of conversion is seen<br />
through the lens of embodiment and sexual liberation theology, we can then broaden the concept<br />
to include the notion of Erotic Conversion… Erotically converted, we can develop the notion of a<br />
responsible hedonism and call for a preferential option for the body in Christian sexual ethics.’<br />
(From the Abstract.)
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Legg, David Maxwell. Questioning and Knowing: <strong>The</strong> Logic of Questioning in <strong>Bernard</strong> <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s<br />
<strong>The</strong>ory of Knowing. Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy,<br />
University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2003. (Doctoral supervisor: Dr. Roderic A. Girle.)<br />
‘<strong>The</strong> aim of this investigation is to explore and develop the Logic of Questioning as related to<br />
knowing. <strong>The</strong> central thesis…is that the practice of questioning as expressing the human desire to<br />
know, or oriented unrestrictedly to knowing everything... <strong>The</strong> major part of the investigation is a<br />
close examination of the place of questioning in the strategic arguments used by <strong>Bernard</strong><br />
<strong>Lonergan</strong> to develop a theory of knowing and being, as found in Insight:<br />
A Study of Human Understanding.’ (From the Abstract.)<br />
Pen, Robert. Communication as Mutual Self-Mediation in Context: <strong>Bernard</strong><br />
<strong>Lonergan</strong>’s Philosophy of Communication. Doctoral Dissertation in<br />
Philosophy, under the guidance of Prof. Adriano Alessi SDB. Salesian<br />
Pontifical University, Rome, <strong>2004</strong>.<br />
‘…<strong>Lonergan</strong> suggests an overall plan for communication, which will<br />
save us from the longer cycle of decline into human behaviour… by<br />
conscientizing the public opinion through media literacy and critical<br />
media education, towards consensus in the construction of a new,<br />
creative world. It is a movement of the elemental “we” to expand<br />
beyond the minimal nuclear center towards the “good of order” as such<br />
by overcoming the inherent dialectical tensions of the community. An<br />
intellectual conversion of this sort will result in a cosmopolis, an overall attitude of mind and<br />
heart guided by the liberated detached desire to know.’ (From the concluding remarks of the<br />
Dissertation. See above, under ‘PUBLICATIONS,’ for a listing of the published Extract of this<br />
Doctoral Dissertation.)<br />
GEMS<br />
“When I was<br />
writing Insight, I<br />
was also listening<br />
to Beethoven. …<br />
He gave me a lift.<br />
He is known for<br />
being ‘titanic.’”<br />
—Caring about Meaning, 238<br />
This section includes works that make little or no mention <strong>Lonergan</strong> but focus on topics that <strong>Lonergan</strong> has written<br />
about. Contributors are asked to give a few words explaining the relevance of the citation. We encourage other<br />
contributors to share their wealth!<br />
Foley, Edward and Dianne Bergant. ‘<strong>The</strong> Beginning or the End of a <strong>The</strong>ological Agenda: Tracing the<br />
Methodological Flows through Vatican II.’ Gregorianum 84/2 (2003) 315-45.<br />
‘<strong>The</strong>ological method was not the principal focus of the documents of Vatican II. For <strong>Bernard</strong><br />
<strong>Lonergan</strong>, method is a pattern of operations that yield specific results. Three approaches were in<br />
vogue during the council and are represented in the documents. (1) Neo-scholasticism, regards<br />
church teaching as the immediate rule of faith. (2) Transcendentalism, utilizes the human subject<br />
as its starting point, emphasizing the human openness to the divine. (3) <strong>The</strong> correlational method,<br />
[which] combines differentiating sources and their interdependence from the starting point of the<br />
existential situation. All three can be identified in the documents but in varying degrees.’<br />
Mongeau, Gilles. ‘<strong>The</strong> Spiritual Pedagogy of the Summa theologiae.’ Nova et Vetera (English Edition)<br />
2/1 (<strong>2004</strong>) 91-114.<br />
‘<strong>The</strong> Summa theologiae was developed as a direct result of Thomas’s teaching at Santa Sabina:<br />
after trying to teach from the Sentences for a year, he abandoned this enterprise and began his<br />
own summary of theology with its own proper order… A growing body of scholars has been<br />
reexamining the meaning and role of the phrase sacra doctrina in Aquinas’s theology. Sacra<br />
doctrina emerges from these studies as a complex reality that holds together an objective<br />
dimension, namely the content that is taught, and an active dimension, namely the various<br />
practices and tasks of the teacher who transmits the teaching… I propose here to explore
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WEB WORKS<br />
the…aspect of sacra doctrina in its active dimension, as the pedagogical praxis of the wise<br />
teacher transmitting what he or she has received from God. This entails being attentive to the<br />
rhetorical clues embedded in the text of the Summa.’<br />
Dunne, Tad. “<strong>The</strong> Next Evolution in Ethics.” A short paper delivered at the Second International<br />
<strong>Lonergan</strong> Workshop, Toronto, August 1-6, <strong>2004</strong>. Follow the link at<br />
http://www.wowway.com/~tdunne5273/<br />
CONFERENCES & COURSES<br />
<strong>The</strong> 2 nd International <strong>Lonergan</strong> Workshop, Ongoing Collaboration in <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s 100 th Birth<br />
Year, in Honor of Frederick E. Crowe, S.J., was held at Regis College, University of Toronto,<br />
from August 1 st till August 6 th , <strong>2004</strong>.<br />
Fred Crowe gave the Inaugural Lecture, ‘<strong>The</strong> Here and Now of <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s Thinking: A Study of<br />
Contexts,’ on the evening of Sunday, August 1 st . On Monday evening, Walter Ysaac showed a video of a<br />
<strong>Lonergan</strong>-inspired Cooperative, and Valentine Rice gave a presentation entitled, ‘<strong>Lonergan</strong>’s Early Life:<br />
Slides & Commentary.’ On Tuesday evening, Robert M. Doran spoke on ‘System Seeking Method:<br />
Anticipating the Future of the Functional Specialty “Systematics.”’ On the following evening, Paul<br />
Kidder spoke on ‘Method in Urban Studies: In Honor of Jane Jacobs.’<br />
Presentations during the day included:<br />
Moira Carley: ‘Learning and Living: <strong>The</strong> Role of Imagination’<br />
Phyllis Wallbank: ‘<strong>The</strong> Unchanging and Changing Adolescent and <strong>Lonergan</strong>’<br />
Ryoko Tamura: ‘<strong>The</strong> Self-Appropriation of the Knower and Education in Japan’<br />
Ivo Coelho: ‘<strong>Lonergan</strong>’s Method: A Proposal for Implementation’<br />
Gilles Mongeau: ‘<strong>The</strong> Mutual Self-Mediation of Religion and Culture in <strong>The</strong>ology’<br />
William Mathews: ‘Describing Consciousness: Reflections on the Elusiveness of Mind’<br />
Daniel Monsour: ‘Imaginable Data for Understanding What It Is to Understand’<br />
Paul St Amour: ‘<strong>Lonergan</strong>’s Intellectualist Anthropology: Reflections on the Concreteness of the Desire<br />
to Know’<br />
Joseph Fitzpatrick: ‘<strong>Lonergan</strong> and the Analytical Tradition’<br />
Natalino Spaccapelo: ‘Some Expansions of B. <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s Anthropology’<br />
Terry Tekippe: ‘<strong>Lonergan</strong> and the Future of Philosophy’<br />
Jim Kanaris: ‘(Hyper) Vigilance and Self-Appropriation’<br />
John Ranieri: ‘Girard, <strong>Lonergan</strong>, and the Limits of Common Sense’<br />
Andre Wiercinski: ‘Mediating Mediation: <strong>The</strong> Centrality of Verbum in <strong>Bernard</strong> <strong>Lonergan</strong> and Gustave<br />
Siewerth’<br />
William E. Murnion: ‘Aquinas’s Philosophy of Mind’<br />
James Pambrun: ‘Revelation and Interiority: Reflections on Frederick E. Crowe’s <strong>The</strong>ology of the<br />
Christian Word’<br />
Louis Roy: ‘<strong>Lonergan</strong>’s Distinction between Faith and Belief’
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Patrick H. Byrne: ‘Outer Peace, Inner Peace: Authenticity in Feelings and Personal Relations’<br />
Mark Doorley: ‘<strong>The</strong> Heuristic of Beauty in Moral Self-Transcendence’<br />
Elizabeth Murray: ‘A Dialectic of Moods’<br />
Daniel Helminiak: ‘Spirituality as a Psychological Concern: <strong>The</strong> Missing Link between the Social<br />
Sciences and <strong>The</strong>ology’<br />
In-Sook Kim: ‘<strong>The</strong> Religious Dimension of the Psyche in the Works of <strong>Bernard</strong> <strong>Lonergan</strong>’<br />
Gordon Rixon: ‘Transforming Mysticism: Beyond Rhetoric and Exemplar to the Illuminated Word’<br />
Carla Mae Streeter, OP: ‘Technology and Human Becoming: <strong>The</strong> Virtual and the Virtuous’<br />
Tad Dunne: ‘<strong>The</strong> Next Evolution in Ethics’<br />
Kenneth Melchin: ‘Thinking about Sublation: Exploring a Contribution to Ethics from <strong>Lonergan</strong>’<br />
J. Michael Stebbins: ‘Personal Identity and Embryonic Stem Cell Research’<br />
Michael McCarthy: ‘Critical Realism and the Common Good: Recovering an Indispensable Idea’<br />
Thomas McPartland: ‘<strong>Lonergan</strong> and Contemporary Democracy’<br />
Glen ‘Chip’ Hughes: ‘Art and Liberty’<br />
Michael Vertin: ‘Images, Symbols, and Signs: Concrete Mediators of Human Living’<br />
Sean McGrath: ‘<strong>The</strong> Act of Insight and the Excessive Meaning of the Symbol’<br />
Rosanna Finamore: ‘<strong>The</strong> Hermeneutic Problem and Its Solution in the Configuration of Truth and<br />
Method’<br />
Greg Maillet: ‘“It is required you do awake your faith”: <strong>Lonergan</strong>ian Conversion and Shakespeare’s<br />
<strong>The</strong> Winter’s Tale’<br />
Sean McEvenue: ‘“Truth” and “Dialectic” in Interpreting Scripture’<br />
Frank Budenholzer: ‘Christian Philosophy, the Natural Sciences, and Human Dignity’<br />
Saturnino Muratore: ‘<strong>The</strong> Category Nature/Natural: <strong>The</strong> Contribution of <strong>Bernard</strong> <strong>Lonergan</strong>’<br />
Cloe Taddei-Feretti: ‘<strong>The</strong> New Attention of Cognitive Science to the Data of Consciousness’<br />
Catherine Clifford: ‘Conversion and the Churches: A Call to Authenticity’<br />
John Dadosky: ‘Mutual Self-Mediation: An Explanatory Principle in Contemporary Systematics’<br />
Neil Ormerod: ‘A Dialectic Engagement with the Social Sciences in Relation to Ecclesiology’<br />
Christine Jamieson: ‘Middle Voice and the Recovery of the Transcendent in the Work of <strong>Bernard</strong><br />
<strong>Lonergan</strong> and Catherine Pickstock’<br />
Gerard Walmsley: ‘Globalization and Catholic Higher Education: <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s Contribution’<br />
Ladislas Orsy: ‘Faith Seeking Action: Method for Creating Church Structures and Norms.’<br />
Afternoon Discussion Sessions included the following topics:<br />
‘<strong>Lonergan</strong> and Social Justice,’ led by Peter Bisson;<br />
‘Appropriating Your Cultural Character,’ led by Joseph Flanagan<br />
‘Applying <strong>Lonergan</strong> in Our Lives,’ led by Daniel Helminiak and Barnet Feingold<br />
‘<strong>Lonergan</strong>’s Christology,’ led by Gilles Mongeau;
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‘<strong>Lonergan</strong> and Ignatian Spirituality, led by William Walsh;<br />
‘<strong>The</strong> Openness of Structure and the Embodiment of Meaning,’ led by David Oyler;<br />
‘<strong>Lonergan</strong> and Education,’ led by Gordon Rixon.<br />
On <strong>September</strong> 1, Roland Krismer and Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB began an introductory course entitled<br />
“Metaphysics, or the Principles of Being or Reality from its Greek roots to its Latin foundations in<br />
Aristotle and Aquinas: An Introduction.” <strong>The</strong> course is offered at the <strong>Lonergan</strong> Institute for the "Good<br />
UnderConstruction", housed at St. Anselm's Abbey, in Washington,DC. <strong>The</strong> evening class includes a<br />
break for participants to attend a 15-minute compline with the monks of St. Anselm's Abbey in their<br />
chapel.<br />
COMING UP<br />
To the list of forthcoming Conferences being held to commemorate the 100 th anniversary of <strong>Lonergan</strong><br />
birth (see the June issue, LSN <strong>25</strong>:2 [<strong>2004</strong>] 6-7), the following is now added:<br />
<strong>The</strong>re will be a <strong>Lonergan</strong> Conference in Vancouver, around the centennial weekend of December 17 th<br />
<strong>2004</strong>. <strong>The</strong> topic will be “Fostering Functional Specialization.” Those interested in attending or<br />
presenting—even in their absence—relevant material or seeking further information can contact<br />
pmchane@shaw.ca (or 604.<strong>25</strong>5.7492, or P. McShane, apt. 314, 1436 Graveley St., Vancouver, B.C. V5L<br />
3A4, Canada). <strong>The</strong> formal presentations will begin on Friday night, December 17 th , and run through<br />
Saturday and Sunday. However, discussions and collaborations will be arranged for the days immediately<br />
prior to and after the weekend. Material sent will be aired at the meeting and responded to following the<br />
discussions. <strong>The</strong> key-note address of Friday 17 th , “<strong>Lonergan</strong>’s Fostering of Functional Specialization,”<br />
will be given by Dr. Conn O’Donovan of Riverview College, New South Wales, Australia.<br />
PROJECTS<br />
<strong>Lonergan</strong> Research Institute.<br />
<strong>The</strong> most important item of news from the LRI, of course, has to do with the Second International<br />
<strong>Lonergan</strong> Workshop that was conducted at Regis College from August 1-6, under the auspices of the<br />
Boston College <strong>Lonergan</strong> Workshop and Fred and Sue Lawrence. <strong>The</strong> Workshop celebrated the centenary<br />
of the birth of <strong>Bernard</strong> <strong>Lonergan</strong> and also honored Frederick Crowe, who delivered the opening lecture.<br />
<strong>The</strong> LRI was proud to be involved in making the local arrangements, and we are simply delighted with<br />
the wonderful event that so many people experienced. <strong>The</strong> gospel for August 22, the 21st Sunday of the<br />
Year, tells us that they will come from east and west and recline at table in the kingdom of God. One<br />
person commented that the Workshop banquet and the liturgy that preceded it, at which Cardinal Aloysius<br />
Ambrozic presided, seemed to be a foretaste of that eschatalogical promise. <strong>The</strong> spirit and the joy that<br />
suffused the week were palpable, and easily give rise to the question as to whether the next step in the<br />
promotion of <strong>Bernard</strong> <strong>Lonergan</strong>'s work might involve advancing the cause of having him named a Doctor<br />
of the Church. <strong>The</strong> <strong>Lonergan</strong> Research Institute thanks Fred and Sue Lawrence, Joseph Schner and Regis<br />
College, Gilles Mongeau, Cardinal Ambrozic, Robin Koning (what a performance at the banquet!),<br />
Raymond Ryan, and all who helped us with this wonderful event.<br />
Other news from the Institute for the summer: (1) <strong>Volume</strong> 17 of the Collected Works,<br />
PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL PAPERS 1965-1980, edited by Robert C. Croken and Robert<br />
M. Doran, was published by University of Toronto Press in June. (2) Bob Doran traveled to Reston,<br />
Virginia (near Washington, D.C.) for the annual convention of the Catholic <strong>The</strong>ological Society of<br />
America. At the convention, Bob participated in a post-banquet set of reminiscences. Four great<br />
theologians were born in 1904: not only <strong>Lonergan</strong>, but also Yves Congar, John Courtney Murray, and<br />
Karl Rahner. Reminiscences were given on each of them at the banquet -- Joseph Komonchak on Congar,
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Bob Doran on <strong>Lonergan</strong>, Leon Hooper on Murray, and Leo O'Donovan on Rahner. (3) From there Bob<br />
went on to the <strong>Lonergan</strong> Workshop in Boston, where he delivered a paper entitled '"Complicate the<br />
Structure": Notes on a Forgotten Precept.' Greg Lauzon flew directly from Toronto to Boston to record<br />
the proceedings of the Workshop. (4) In the course of the summer, the Institute changed its website<br />
address. <strong>The</strong> new address is: lonergan-lri.ca. <strong>The</strong> old address (utoronto.ca/lri) is set up automatically to<br />
reroute people to the new one, but for some reason this works on some computers and not on others. (Bob<br />
Doran has a computer at work and one at home: the rerouting works on his computer at home, and not on<br />
the computer at work. Why Bob doesn't even have a hypothesis!) <strong>The</strong> change was made in order to give<br />
us a larger and more secure space. More details will be forthcoming over the next months.<br />
CREDO: Center for Research into Ethics and Decision-making in Organizations. John Little,<br />
Director of CREDO, and Tom Daly are planning an interactive CD/online teaching module on ethics,<br />
leadership, and decision. CREDO is based at Australian Catholic University. See www.acu.edu.au/credo.<br />
PEOPLE<br />
John Bryant sent word in early June that in mid-June he would be delivering a lecture titled ‘<strong>Bernard</strong><br />
<strong>Lonergan</strong> on Feelings and Value’ at the Second Conference on Axiology in China. He indicates that the<br />
lecture would draw heavily from a presentation he made at Marian College, where he had studied under<br />
Michael P. Maxwell.<br />
<strong>Bernard</strong> <strong>Lonergan</strong> is cited three times in the 2 nd edition of the authoritative multi-volume Oxford<br />
English Dictionary. Under noema, ‘a term first used by<br />
Husserl for that which is perceived or thought as the self<br />
experiences it,’ Insight (1957), p. xxv is quoted: ‘…the<br />
noêma or intentio intenta or pensée pensée, illustrated by<br />
the lower contexts, P, Q, R,…and by the upper context that<br />
is Gödel’s theorem…’ Under noematic, Insight (1957), p.<br />
415 is quoted: ‘…the pure forms of noetic experience<br />
terminating in noematic contents.’ Finally, under noesis,<br />
Insight (1957), p. xxv is again quoted, though this time<br />
slightly inaccurately: ‘…there is also the noêsis or intentio<br />
intendens, or pensée pensante that is constituted by the<br />
very activity of inquiring and reflecting, understanding and<br />
affirming, asking further questions and reaching further<br />
answers.’<br />
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