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<strong>September</strong> <strong>2002</strong> 1<br />
N E W S L E T T E R 2 3 : 3 S E P T E M B E R 2 0 0 2<br />
PUBLICATIONS<br />
<strong>Lonergan</strong>, <strong>Bernard</strong>. Letter to Thomas O'Malley, November 8, 1978. METHOD: Journal of <strong>Lonergan</strong><br />
Studies 20:1 (Spring <strong>2002</strong>) 80-86.<br />
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Anon. ‘<strong>Lonergan</strong>, <strong>Bernard</strong> J.F.’ <strong>The</strong> Concise Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (Oxford University<br />
Press, 2001. Editor William Toye) 284.<br />
Bertocci, Rosemary Juel, and Francis H. Rohlf. ‘A <strong>Lonergan</strong>ian Kritik of the Evolutionary Sciences and<br />
Religious Consciousness: <strong>The</strong> Isomorphism of Structures, Activities and Analysis.’ METHOD:<br />
Journal of <strong>Lonergan</strong> Studies 20: 1 (Spring <strong>2002</strong>) 1-19.<br />
Burrell, David. ‘From Analogy of “Being” to the Analogy of Being.’ <strong>Lonergan</strong> Workshop 17 (<strong>2002</strong>) 53-66.<br />
Byrne, Patrick H. ‘Research: An Illustration from Galileo Studies.” METHOD: Journal of <strong>Lonergan</strong> Studies<br />
20:1 (Spring <strong>2002</strong>) 21-32.<br />
Cassidy, Richard J. ‘<strong>The</strong> Conversions of Paul in the Light of <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s <strong>The</strong>ory of Conversion.’ <strong>Lonergan</strong><br />
Workshop 17 (<strong>2002</strong>) 67-84.<br />
Coelho, Ivo. 'Rorty’s Anti-foundationalism and Fides et ratio.' Divyadaan: Journal of Philosophy and<br />
Education 13:1 (<strong>2002</strong>) 17-57.<br />
Crowe, Frederick. E. ‘Analogy of Proportion: Note on a Favorite <strong>Lonergan</strong> Thought-Pattern.’ <strong>The</strong>oforum 32<br />
(2001) 419-25.<br />
Crowe, Frederick E. ‘<strong>The</strong> Future: Charting the Unknown with <strong>Lonergan</strong>.’ <strong>Lonergan</strong> Workshop 17 (<strong>2002</strong>) 1-<br />
21.<br />
Doran, Robert M. ‘<strong>The</strong> Truth of <strong>The</strong>ological Understanding in Divinarum Personarum and De Deo Trino,<br />
Pars Systematica.’ METHOD: Journal of <strong>Lonergan</strong> Studies 20:1 (Spring <strong>2002</strong>) 33-75.<br />
Doran, Robert M. ‘Reflections on Method in Systematic <strong>The</strong>ology.’ <strong>Lonergan</strong> Workshop 17 (<strong>2002</strong>) <strong>23</strong>-51.<br />
Fitzpatrick, Joseph. ‘<strong>Bernard</strong> <strong>Lonergan</strong>: Educationist and Philosopher.’ <strong>Lonergan</strong> Workshop 17 (<strong>2002</strong>) 85-<br />
94.<br />
Gerhart, Mary and Allan Melvin Russell. New Maps for Old: Explorations in Science and Religion. London<br />
and New York: Continuum, 2001.<br />
Hefling, Charles C. ‘About What Might a “Girard-<strong>Lonergan</strong> ‘Conversation’” Be’ <strong>Lonergan</strong> Workshop 17<br />
(<strong>2002</strong>) 95-1<strong>23</strong>.<br />
Kanaris, Jim. <strong>Bernard</strong> <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s Philosophy of Religion: From Philosophy of God to Philosophy of<br />
Religious Studies. Albany, NY: State University of New Press, <strong>2002</strong>.<br />
Kidder, Paul. ‘<strong>The</strong> Future of American Cities.’ <strong>Lonergan</strong> Workshop 17 (<strong>2002</strong>) 125-41.<br />
Lawrence, Fred. ‘Editor’s Note.’ <strong>Lonergan</strong> Workshop 17 (<strong>2002</strong>) iii-vi.<br />
<strong>Lonergan</strong> Workshop <strong>Volume</strong> 17. Looking Ahead: <strong>Lonergan</strong> for the 21 st Century. Ed. Fred Lawrence.<br />
Boston College, <strong>2002</strong>.<br />
See, in this issue of LSN: D. Burrell, R. Cassidy, F. Crowe, R. Doran, J. Fitzpatrick, C. Hefling, P.<br />
Kidder, M. McCathy, S. Moore, G. Rota, G. Sala.<br />
McCarthy, Michael. ‘Authority, Autonomy, and Authenticity.’ <strong>Lonergan</strong> Workshop 17 (<strong>2002</strong>) 143-62.
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McShane, Philip. Pastkeynes Pastmodern Economics. A Fresh Pragmatism. Axial Press, Halifax, <strong>2002</strong>.<br />
This work is the promised sequel to <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s two volumes on Economics. (See For A New<br />
Political Economy, 325, where the sequel was originally titled <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s Economics: Structures<br />
and Implementations.)<br />
METHOD: Journal of <strong>Lonergan</strong> Studies 20:1 (Spring <strong>2002</strong>).<br />
See, in this issue of LSN, articles by R. J. Bertolocci and F. H. Rohlf, P.H. Byrne, , R.M. Doran, G.<br />
Rixon, P. St. Amour.<br />
Moore, Sebastian. ‘What God Has Joined and Man Has Put Asunder.’ <strong>Lonergan</strong> Workshop 17 (<strong>2002</strong>) 163-<br />
74.<br />
Rixon, Gordon. ‘<strong>Bernard</strong> <strong>Lonergan</strong> to Thomas O’Malley.’ METHOD: Journal of <strong>Lonergan</strong> Studies 20:1<br />
(Spring <strong>2002</strong>) 77-86.<br />
Rohlf, Francis H. See Bertocci, Rosemary Juel.<br />
Rota, Giovanni. ‘From the Historicity of Consciousness to the Ontology of the Person.’ <strong>Lonergan</strong><br />
Workshop 17 (<strong>2002</strong>) 175-95.<br />
Roy, Louis. Self-Actualization and the Radical Gospel. Collegeville, MN: <strong>The</strong> Liturgical Press, <strong>2002</strong>.<br />
Sala, Giovanni. ‘<strong>The</strong> Encyclical Letter of John Paul II, Fides et Ratio: A Service to Truth.’ <strong>Lonergan</strong><br />
Workshop 17 (<strong>2002</strong>) 197-208.<br />
St. Amour, Paul. ‘Kierkegaard’s Retrieval of the Existential Subject.’ METHOD: Journal of <strong>Lonergan</strong><br />
Studies 20:1 (Spring <strong>2002</strong>) 87-113.<br />
Walmsley, Gerard. ‘<strong>The</strong> mind-body problem, yesterday and today,’ in Nature, God, and Humanity<br />
(Proceedings of the third seminar of the South African Science and Religion Forum of the Research<br />
Institute for <strong>The</strong>ology and Religion held at Unisa on 1-2 June 1995), ed. C.W. du Toit (Pretoria:<br />
University of South Africa, 1996) 186-209.<br />
Walmsley, Gerard. ‘Methodology, modalities of consciousness and the “body-mind” problem,’ in Brain,<br />
Mind, and Soul: Unifying the Human Self , ed. C.W. du Toit (Pretoria: University of South Africa,<br />
<strong>2002</strong>) 2<strong>23</strong>-72.<br />
Ysaac, Walter L. Ang Anak at Ang Ama (<strong>The</strong> Son and the Father) Kalooban Series: II,2. Manila,<br />
Philippines: St. Pauls, 2001. 94 p.<br />
REVIEWS<br />
<strong>Lonergan</strong>, <strong>Bernard</strong>. Grace and Freedom: Operative Grace in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. See<br />
21:2/00.<br />
Bradley, Denis J.M. University of Toronto Quarterly 71:1 (Winter 2001/02) 335-36.<br />
Ormerod, Neil. Journal of Religious History 26:1 (February, <strong>2002</strong>) 102-103.<br />
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Dunne, Tad. We Love You Matty: Meeting Death with Faith See 21:1/1.<br />
Rearden, Myles. Irish <strong>The</strong>ological Quarterly 66 (2001) 392-3.<br />
Meynell, Hugo A. Redirecting Philosophy: Reflections on the Nature of Knowledge from Plato to <strong>Lonergan</strong>.<br />
See 19:4/98.<br />
Monsour, Daniel. University of Toronto Quarterly 7:1 (Winter 2001/02) 144-46.<br />
Roy, Louis. Transcendent Experiences: Phenomenology and Critique. See 22:3/01.<br />
Braman, Brian J. METHOD: Journal of <strong>Lonergan</strong> Studies 20:1 (Spring <strong>2002</strong>) 115-20.<br />
Allard, Maxime. Science et Esprit 54:1 (Jan-Apr <strong>2002</strong>) 125-7.
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DISSERTATIONS & THESES<br />
Kolodiejchuk, Brian. <strong>The</strong> Labyrinth of Deep Commitment: A Seminar to Assist Members of Religious<br />
Communities in Making their Lives Something Beautiful for God. Dissertation for doctorate in<br />
Psychology, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, San Francisco, June 2000. 195 p.<br />
Director: Dennis Jaffe.<br />
McFeely, Wendy J. A New Conversation on the Road to Emmaus: Spiritual Autobiography as Seen Through<br />
a Transparency of <strong>Bernard</strong> J. F. <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s Transcendental Method. <strong>The</strong>sis for the MTS degree,<br />
Vancouver School of <strong>The</strong>ology, <strong>2002</strong>. 62 p.<br />
Pintus, A.G. Interiorità e Metodo: Il percorso filosofico di B.J. <strong>Lonergan</strong>. <strong>The</strong>sis for doctorate in<br />
Philosophy, University of Rome, 1999. 192 p. Director: E. Baccarini.<br />
WEB WORKS<br />
McShane, Philip. Lack in the Beingstalk. A Giants Causeway. www.philipmcshane.ca<br />
publication, <strong>2002</strong>.<br />
This is the work he referred to as "<strong>Lonergan</strong>'s Phenomenology and Logic:Contexts" in his editorial<br />
introduction to <strong>Lonergan</strong>'s Phenomenology and Logic: <strong>The</strong> Boston College Lectures on<br />
Mathematical Logic and Existentialism, vol 18, CWL, p. xxi, n. 6.<br />
Ogilvie, Matthew. "Can a Christian be a Darwinian A review essay on Michael Ruse’s Can A Darwinian Be<br />
a Christian (CUP, 2001)," <strong>The</strong>ology@McAuley, Australian Catholic University, <strong>2002</strong>.<br />
URL: http://www.mcauley.acu.edu.au/theology/Issue2/Matthew_Ogilvie_Darwin.htm<br />
GEMS<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 />
"For anyone who has struggled with CWL 15 and 21 from the base of school exposure to economics, and is<br />
still having problems, I would like to suggest full reading of J.A. Schumpter's Capitalism, Socialism and<br />
Democracy, originally published in 1942. It not only provides a clear sense of the state of debate in<br />
economic theory at the time of <strong>Lonergan</strong>'s Circulation Analysis but teaches the details of questions to which<br />
<strong>Lonergan</strong> begged to submit a few distinctions. Personally, Schumpeter has given me a step up in<br />
understanding what <strong>Lonergan</strong> offers." – Maxim Faust<br />
CONFERENCES & COURSES<br />
An International Conference on ‘Cultural and Knowledge Exchange between Austria and Canada’ was<br />
held May 2-5, <strong>2002</strong>, at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Of particular interest to LSN readers is Section<br />
III of the conference, ‘Reception of Different Forms of Culture and Systems of Knowledge – Philosophy,<br />
<strong>The</strong>ology,’ in which two lectures on <strong>Lonergan</strong> were given. Otto Muck, Professor emeritus of the University<br />
of Innsbruck spoke on ‘<strong>Bernard</strong> <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s Contribution to Philosophical Method – the First Phase of<br />
Reception in Innsbruck,’ and Professor Raymund Schwager, also of the University of Innsbruck, lectured on<br />
‘Conversion and Authenticity: <strong>Bernard</strong> <strong>Lonergan</strong> and René Girard.’ Thanks to Linus Kpalap for this report.<br />
At the 25 th International Wittgenstein Symposium in August at Kirchberg am Wechsel in Lower Austria,<br />
Linus Kpalap presented a paper, ‘<strong>Lonergan</strong> on Person as Psychological Subject’. <strong>The</strong> theme of the<br />
symposium was, ‘Persons: An Interdisciplinary Approach’.<br />
On the <strong>Web</strong>site www.philipmcshane.ca there is a report of the proceedings of the fourth annual West<br />
Dublin Conference (August 12-16, Nova Scotia, Canada) in Cantower 6. (This 44-page Cantower also
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contains a to-be-published article on classroom application of generalized empirical method). Cantower 7,<br />
appearing on October 1 st , deals with genetic systematics and points towards the genetic Pragmatics that must<br />
also be generative and re-generative if it is to reach for the full efficient potential of the seventh functional<br />
specialty. Cantower 8, on November 1 st , deals with the cyclic complexification of the collaborative effort that<br />
is to emerge from functional specialization. Cantower 9, December 1 st , pushes for a conception of adult<br />
philosophic growth as gradual positional incarnation.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first "<strong>Lonergan</strong> Symposium at Seton Hall University" convened on Saturday afternoon, August 8 th .<br />
Stephen Martin presented the structure of <strong>Lonergan</strong>'s pure economic cycle, noting how remote it is from<br />
contemporary economic theory and practice. Dick Lambert related Thomas Berry's <strong>The</strong> Great Work to<br />
chapter 18 of Insight, arguing that economic processes must respect the underlying ecologies and schemes on<br />
which they depend or turn self-destructive. Stephanie Parello discussed the functioning of higher viewpoints<br />
in geometry, number theory and astronomy. Frank Braio discussed the problems involved in 'canonizing'<br />
<strong>Lonergan</strong>'s project and in relating it to the functional specialties.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Lonergan</strong> movement in Italy goes from strength to strength. <strong>The</strong> present project: a three-year<br />
‘Workshop for the Study of <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s Insight,’ featuring six ‘Live-in Seminars,’ of several days<br />
duration – this, in addition to Permanent Seminars already functioning in Perugia, Turin, and Piacenza.<br />
Wide participation of universities and other academic centers has been secured, and even wider participation<br />
of scholars: from Turin, Perugia, Milan, Rome, Naples, Piacenza, and Alto Adige. Invites collaborators,<br />
scholarly and financial. Appealing to the Italian episcopacy, in particular ‘Servizio Nazionale per il Progetto<br />
Culturale della Conferenza Episcopale Italiana’; further financial help solicited. A principal result:<br />
publication of the definitive Italian translation of Insight. One sees here, of course, the creative energy of<br />
Natalino Spaccapelo and Saturnino Muratore, and the generous sponsorship of the Instituto per la<br />
Promozione delle Scienze Umane di Perugia. This institute is possibly the best contact for further<br />
information; address: I.P.S.U. Via A. Vecchi 195, 061<strong>23</strong>, Perugia, Italy.<br />
In the fall semester, the following courses will be offered by Regis College in the Toronto School of<br />
<strong>The</strong>ology: Gilles Mongeau: ‘God, One and Triune’; Gordon Rixon: ‘Foundations of <strong>The</strong>ology,’ and<br />
‘<strong>Lonergan</strong>’s Method’; John Dadosky: ‘<strong>The</strong>ology as Biography,’ and ‘Ecclesiology’; Bob Doran: a<br />
graduate seminar, ‘<strong>Lonergan</strong>’s Systematics of the Trinity’.<br />
At St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto, Michael Vertin is offering a course, ‘Good and Evil’.<br />
Colleagues apprehensively await its outcome.<br />
COMING UP<br />
An International Conference is to be held in 2004 to mark the 100 th Anniversary of the birthdays of Karl<br />
Rahner, <strong>Bernard</strong> <strong>Lonergan</strong>, and John Courteney Murray. <strong>The</strong> theme of the conference will be ‘<strong>The</strong><br />
Christian Faith in the Modern World,’ and it will take place at the Catholic Academy, Mainz, Germany. For<br />
more information, contact either of the following:<br />
Prof. Roman Siebenrock<br />
Karl Rahner Archiv<br />
Universitätsstrasse 4<br />
A-6020<br />
Innsbruck, Austria;<br />
Tel: 0043-512-507-8542<br />
roman.siebenrock@uibk.ac.at; or<br />
Linus T. Kpalap<br />
Kaiser Max Str. 5<br />
A-6060<br />
Hall in Torol, Austria<br />
Tel: 0043-52<strong>23</strong>-571167<br />
linus.tombari @tirol.com<br />
On January 10-12, 2003, a conference entitled "<strong>Lonergan</strong> and the Glove" will be held at Fordham<br />
University at Lincoln Center. <strong>The</strong> tentative roster of speakers includes Bruce Anderson, Bill Murnion,
<strong>September</strong> <strong>2002</strong> 5<br />
John Raymaker, Dick Lambert and Frank Braio. For more information, contact Frank Braio at 718-328-9338<br />
or at 139 Pugsley Ave., Bronx, NY 10473<br />
<strong>The</strong> West Coast Method Institute announces the Fallon Memorial <strong>Lonergan</strong> Symposium 18, on the theme,<br />
"Meaning: Exigences, Modes, Realms." This is taken from a quote of <strong>Lonergan</strong>'s, "Different exigences give<br />
rise to different modes of conscious and intentional operation, and different modes of such operation give<br />
rise to different realms of meaning." <strong>The</strong> symposium will run from Thursday morning, April 24, through<br />
Saturday night, April 26, 2003, on the campus of Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. In a departure<br />
from prior years, there will be no Sunday morning sessions. <strong>The</strong> Symposium will conclude with a banquet on<br />
Saturday evening. Registration fee (includes banquet) is $30 ($15 for students), and may be paid on the first<br />
day.<br />
<strong>The</strong> organizers ask that you let them know your intention to attend by January 15, 2003. Preregister via<br />
message to Mark D. Morelli at Mmorelli@lmu.edu or mailed to Mark D. Morelli, Dept. of Philosophy,<br />
Loyola Marymount University, One LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045. Please include your name,<br />
address, email address, phone number, whether or not you plan to attend the banquet and, if so, your<br />
relationship to the Vegan movement. Hotel reservations may be made at the Furama Hotel, 8601 Lincoln<br />
Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045, (310) 670-8111,(800) 225-8126; online at http://profiles.hospitalityonline.<br />
com/200109. Additional information will be posted at www.concentric.net/~Mmorelli/ wcmi.htm as it<br />
becomes available.<br />
Organizers also call for papers on the theme.<br />
Proposals may be for presentations, panel<br />
discussions, leadership of general discussion,<br />
or papers for distribution. Presentations are<br />
limited to 20 minutes, with an additional 10<br />
minutes for discussion. Panel sessions and<br />
general discussions are limited to 50 minutes.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is no length-limit for papers for<br />
distribution prior to and during the<br />
symposium. Presentation proposals should be<br />
no longer than 900 words. Panel proposals<br />
should specify the topic and, if possible, the<br />
panelists. Proposals to lead a general<br />
discussion should specify the nest of<br />
questions to be raised. All proposals should<br />
be submitted before November 1st, <strong>2002</strong> to<br />
Mark Morelli at the address above.<br />
Submissions by email attachment are<br />
preferred.<br />
PROJECTS<br />
<strong>Lonergan</strong> Research Institute.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Lonergan</strong> Research Institute ended its 2001-<strong>2002</strong> fiscal year on July 31, evenly balanced for the year.<br />
This may not sound like a major accomplishment, but there were complicating factors that make the people<br />
at the Institute regard it as significant. First, a good deal more expenses were budgeted than ever before,<br />
because of the timing of some new projects. At the same time Jesuit subsidies from the local community and<br />
the Upper Canada Province were terminated because of insufficient resources. So the sole reason for the<br />
success of this first year of the PROJECT 2004 campaign is the generosity of the benefactors of the Institute,<br />
who contributed $100,000 more than had ever before been given in a single year. <strong>The</strong> Institute was the<br />
grateful recipient of more than $220,000 of donations in the course of the year. <strong>The</strong> Institute begins a new
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fiscal year with renewed confidence because of the past year, and with a new hope that we will continue to<br />
find the assistance we need to continue our work.<br />
Over the course of the summer, things were fairly quiet at the Institute. <strong>Volume</strong> 7 of the Collected Works,<br />
<strong>The</strong> Ontological and Psychological Constitution of Christ, was published in June, with the translation done<br />
by Michael Shields of the Institute. Bob Doran, Bob Croken, and audio archivist Greg Lauzon traveled to<br />
the <strong>Lonergan</strong> Workshop at Boston College in June. Bob Doran delivered a paper at the Workshop, ‘<strong>The</strong><br />
Unified Field Structure for Systematic <strong>The</strong>ology: A Proposal,’ and Greg demonstrated the work he has been<br />
doing on the compact disc project.<br />
CD Project. About half of the projected CDs have found sponsors, and the first few sets will be available to<br />
all who have ordered them by November of this year. <strong>The</strong> actual transfer to CD has already been completed<br />
for the following sets: the 30-disc set of lectures and discussions on ‘<strong>The</strong> Method of <strong>The</strong>ology’ (Regis<br />
College 1962), ‘Horizons and Transpositions,’ ‘Self-transcendence: Intellectual, Moral, Religious,’ and ‘A<br />
Discussion on Insight.’ Greg is still working on the lectures on the philosophy of education that became the<br />
book Topics in Education, and these will be along a bit later than the others mentioned here. At the present<br />
time, Bob Doran is writing liner notes for each of the CDs currently finished, and Greg is designing the art<br />
for the brochure inserts and tray cards. When these tasks are done, those who have ordered CDs will be<br />
receiving them. Anyone who wishes to place an order may find information on how to do so on the<br />
Institute’s webpage: www.utoronto.ca/lri. (Deborah Agnew’s work has paid off on the webpage, which will<br />
be updated, we hope, at least every two months.)<br />
Plans for the coming year are announced in some detail in the Bulletin that will go out with the fall mailing<br />
of the Institute in mid-<strong>September</strong>. To be placed on our mailing list, and so to receive the Bulletin and regular<br />
‘Updates,’ please contact either Deborah Agnew at debbie.agnew@utoronto.ca or Bob Doran at<br />
bdoranca@yahoo.ca.<br />
Plans for the fall include a major event that will be held at Regis College on November 1. <strong>The</strong> event will<br />
feature the launching of the CD project and a display of the Collected Works, both of these in the afternoon<br />
from 4 to 6 P.M., and an evening lecture at 7:30 by Bob Doran, which will be an update of his lecture on<br />
‘<strong>The</strong> Unified Field Structure for Systematic <strong>The</strong>ology.’ This lecture will be the first in what the Institute<br />
hopes will be a series of annual <strong>Bernard</strong> <strong>Lonergan</strong> Lectures in Systematic <strong>The</strong>ology. All readers of the<br />
Newsletter are cordially invited to attend all or part of this event celebrating the work of the Institute. If you<br />
hope to be present for the afternoon session, please let Debbie know, so that we can plan to have enough<br />
refreshments.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Institute has also reserved a booth at the upcoming convention in Toronto of the American Academy of<br />
Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature. At the booth we will display (and sell) the CDs and the<br />
Collected Works.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Institute is pleased to announce the return from Australia of a key member of the staff, Danny Monsour.<br />
Danny did the bulk of the work on the details of <strong>Lonergan</strong>-related publications for this <strong>Lonergan</strong> Studies<br />
Newsletter. As announced in the last Newsletter, Fred Crowe has stepped aside as our ‘point man’ for the<br />
Newsletter, and Danny will be taking on a good part of the work that Fred did so faithfully and diligently for<br />
so many years. In the last issue of the Newsletter a proposal was made that perhaps some readers might wish<br />
to become sponsors or even patrons of this publication. One of the most effective ways of helping the<br />
Institute is to put one’s name on one of its projects in the form of a donation, as many have already done in<br />
sponsoring volumes of the Collected Works and CDs. As we indicated in the last issue, one can become a<br />
patron of the Newsletter with a one-time donation of $5,000, which will be earmarked for this publication;<br />
and one can be a sponsor for a year with an annual donation of $500. And the Institute wishes to take this<br />
opportunity to thank Tad Dunne for his very generous and creative work in editing the Newsletter.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Institute will soon be hiring a part-time fund-raiser, who will begin work in October or November. We<br />
are conscious of the fact that we approached our regular mailing list in the past year more often than had
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been customary in earlier years. We had to do this, and no doubt we will continue a fairly steady stream of<br />
communications with our principal constituency. But we also know that we have to add more new donors to<br />
our list – a large number were added in the past year, mainly through direct mailing – and we are especially<br />
interested in investigating the possibilities of corporate, government, and foundation assistance. <strong>The</strong><br />
research demanded for such proposals is more than the present staff has time to do, and so we will be<br />
bringing on board someone well-versed in the art of fund-raising.<br />
<strong>Lonergan</strong> papers in the Archives. Aaron Lupton was hired this summer to continue work on shelving,<br />
photocopying, and cataloguing the papers, and he will continue to work a few hours each week this next<br />
year, as he completes his Master’s degree at the University of Toronto. And in a related project, Michael<br />
Shields has been cataloguing the many photographs that are in the Archives.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy is soliciting articles on Ethics (metaethics, normative ethics,<br />
applied ethics, and figures in the history of ethics) for inclusion in the peer reviewed Internet Encyclopedia<br />
of Philosophy. Those interested in writing an essay should contact the Ethics editors: Rosemarie Tong,<br />
Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (rotong@email.uncc.edu) or Michael<br />
Boylan, Department of Philosophy, Marymount University (mboylan@phoenix. marymount.edu).<br />
PEOPLE<br />
Ferdinand Muhigirwa is conducting a year-long seminar on <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s Insight at St. Peter Canisius<br />
College, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. This, in addition to his administrative duties as<br />
Social Apostolate Co-ordinator for the Jesuit Assistancy of Africa and Madagascar.<br />
At St. Louis University, Department of <strong>The</strong>ological Studies, Bill Shea is offering a reading course in the Fall<br />
semester 02 on Understanding and Being and one in Spring 03 on Method in <strong>The</strong>ology. <strong>The</strong>y are open to all<br />
students from undergraduates to doctoral students.<br />
Jim Kanaris will be teaching a graduate seminar on <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s philosophy of religion at McGill’s Faculty<br />
of Religious Studies in the winter (2003). This is in addition to an Honours Colloquium he has been teaching<br />
at the Faculty for the past few years on <strong>Lonergan</strong>, Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida, and others. "I’m not sure<br />
whether a grad seminar at McGill has ever been devoted exclusively to <strong>Lonergan</strong>’s thought; I could be wrong<br />
of course." <strong>The</strong> seminar will be based on his research published last month by SUNY Press: <strong>Bernard</strong><br />
<strong>Lonergan</strong>’s Philosophy of Religion: From Philosophy of God to Philosophy of Religious Studies. See page 1,<br />
above. See also Jim's website for further details: www.sunypress.edu/details.aspid=60611.<br />
A transcript of a radio interview in Australia with Mary Anne Glendon can be found at<br />
www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/enc/stories/ s642595.htm. She talks about various influences on her thought,<br />
including <strong>Lonergan</strong>.<br />
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