Fall/Winter 2006 - University of Toronto Press Publishing

P H I L O S O P H Y
The Triune God
Systematics
Bernard Lonergan
Edited by Robert Doran and Daniel Monsour
Translated by Michael G. Shields
COLLECTED WORKS OF BERNARD LONERGAN, VOLUME 12
Buried for more than forty years in a Latin text
written for seminarian students at the Gregorian
University in Rome, Bernard Lonergan’s 1964 masterpiece
of systematic-theological writing, De Deo
trino: Pars systematica, is only now being published
in an edition that includes the original Latin along
with an exact and literal translation. De Deo trino,
or The Triune God, is the third great installment
on one particular strand in trinitarian theology,
namely, the tradition that appeals to a psychological
analogy for understanding trinitarian processions
and relations.
The analogy dates back to St Augustine but was
significantly developed by St Thomas Aquinas.
Lonergan advances it to a new level of sophistication
by rooting it in his own highly nuanced cognitional
theory and in his early position on decision
and love. Suggestions for a further development
of the analogy appear in Lonergan’s late work, but
these cannot be understood and implemented without
working through this volume. This is truly one
of the great masterpieces in the history of systematic
theology, perhaps even the greatest of all time.
Robert Doran is the director of the Lonergan
Research Institute and a professor emeritus at Regis
College, University of Toronto.
Daniel Monsour is a researcher at the Lonergan
Research Institute.
Michael G. Shields is a member and librarian of the
Lonergan Research Institute.
Athens and Jerusalem
George Grant’s Theology, Philosophy, and Politics
Edited by Ian Angus, Ron Dart, and Randy Peg Peters
George Grant (1918–1988) has been called Canada’s
greatest political philosopher. To this day, his work
continues to stimulate, challenge, and inspire
Canadians to think more deeply about matters of
social justice and individual responsibility. One of
the primary reasons for Grant’s enduring significance
is that his work connects practical and political
issues to deeper questions about Western civilization,
ontology, and religion. However, while there
has been considerable discussion of Grant’s political
theories, relatively little attention has been paid to
their theological and philosophical underpinnings.
In Athens and Jerusalem, Ian Angus, Ron Dart, and
Randy Peg Peters gather together sixteen original essays
to offer an elaboration and critique of the theological
and philosophical basis of Grant’s work. The collection,
which includes previously unpublished notes from
four of Grant’s lectures, considers familiar themes of
nationalism, Canada and the United States, modernity,
technology and liberalism from a theological and
philosophical perspective. Contributors demonstrate
how Grant drew upon the biblical and Greek philosophical
roots of Western civilization to diagnose its
present condition, and to suggest alternative sources of
illumination. A fascinating read for anyone interested in
Canadian politics, philosophy or theology, this original
collection goes one step further in helping us understand
what is lasting about Grant’s work.
Ian Angus is a professor in the Department of
Humanities at Simon Fraser University.
Ronald Dart is a professor in the Department of Political
Science at the University College of the Fraser Valley.
Randy Peg Peters is a professor in the Department
of Philosophy at Trinity Western University.
Approx. 880 pp / 6 x 9 / December 2006
Cloth ISBN 0-8020-9168-7 / 978-08020-9168-0
£60.00 $95.00 E
Paper ISBN 0-8020-9433-3 / 978-08020-9433-9
£25.00 $39.95 C
Approx. 384 pp / 6 x 9 / December 2006
2 colour illustrations
Cloth ISBN 0-8020-9176-8 / 978-0-8020-9176-5
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