Complete Bibliography of Lonergan Studies

Dissertations & Theses

Anne comments: "Lonergan had a strong influence on Butler's thinking regarding conversion. I tell the story of that influence in my dissertation." Order no. GAX81-21270.

Lonergan Studies Newsletter 4/3 September 1983

Publications

Discussion participants include Eric Voegelin, Clive Simmonds, Bernard Lonergan, Heinz Lehmann, Fred Lawrence, J. Roby Kidd, Cathleen Going, and Symposium registrants.

Carmody, John. Ecology and Religion: Toward a New Christian Theology of Nature. Ramsey, N.J.: Paulist, 1983.

Draws on Lonergan's functional specialties (dialectics through communications) as the organizing principle.

Happel, Stephen and Tracy, David. A Catholic Vision. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1983.

A study of Catholic identity, past and present.

Hassel, David J. City of Wisdom: A Christian Vision of the American University. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1983.

See the "End Notes" (pp. 444-461), , for author's use of Lonergan's writings. The book examines such areas as pluralism and unity, secularization, and the relationship of religious founding groups to the schools they started.

Henman, J. Robert. The Child as Quest: Method and Religious Education. Washington: University Press of America, 1983.

Elaborates a method of education based on Lonergan's work in philosophy and theology.

Lamb, Matthew L. "Christian Spirituality and Social Justice." Horizons (CTS) 10:32-49 (1983).

Mason, Melbourne and Therese (eds.). Inquiry and Attunement: Five Interviews about Adult Learning with Directors of the Thomas More Institute of Montreal. Montreal: Thomas More Institute, 1981.

Topics include the liberation of curiosity (R. Eric O'Connor), the search for values in economics (Eileen de Neeve), the role of symbols and images in unleashing the psyche (Charlotte Tansey), the importance of art and poetry (Martin O'Hara), and intelligent patience in the education process (Cathleen Going).

Perez-Valera, E. "L'amour: source de connaissance de soi." Cahiers de spiritualite ignatienne 7:119-42 (1983).

Dissertations & Theses

This study provides a methodological exploration of Christian theology's foundations in religious experience as envisaged within the theological method of Bernard Lonergan. The study has three sections. The first sets out Lonergan's explanation of the role of religious conversion within transcendental method and religious conversion's function as the theological principle in method. The second offers a presentation and development of Lonergan's statements on the outer ecclesial word as complementary principle to transcendental religious conversion. The third indicates the mediation of the psychic movement of symbols which envelopes both the reception of the ecclesial word and transcendental religious conversion. This last section draws upon Robert Doran's development of Lonergan's method. The study concludes that the contemporary quest for understanding Christian religious experience is satisfied by the appropriation of its transcendental, ecclesial and psychic aspectsand, further, that Christian religious experience apprehended in this concrete fashion would function as theological principle in the foundations of Christian theology. -A limited number of copies available at present. Write Frank Fletcher, MSC, St. Paul's Seminary for Late Vocations, P.O. Box 13, Kensington, N.S.W., Australia.

Lonergan Studies Newsletter 4/4 December 1983

Publications

Fitzpatrick, Joseph. "Lonergan's Notion of Belief." Method 1:101-13.

Hanink, James G. See Meynell, Hugo, "Foundation and Empiricism...,” immediately below.

Meynell, Hugo. "Foundation and Empiricism: An Exercise in Dialectic." Method 1:174-94; followed by "A Reply from the Clapham Omnibus," by James G. Hanink, pp. 195-98; "A Reply to James G. Hanink" (Meynell), pp. 198-201; and "A Worthy Fellow Wonders" (Hanink), pp. 201-203.

Moore, Sebastian. "F.R. Leavis: A Memoir." Method 1:214-22.

Parry, Robert. "Rational Conceptual Performance." Baha'i Studies Bulletin, 1:13-22 (1982?).

Price, Geoffrey. "Confrontation and Understanding in the Foundations of Political Philosophy." Method 1: 114-33.

Rende, Michael L. "The Development and the Unity of Lonergan's Notion of Conversion." Method 1:158-73.

Stewart,William A. "Drama and Meaning." Method 1:204-13.

Reviews

John T. Ford in Theological Studies 44:515-16 (1983).

Vernon Gregson in Method 1:223-32.

Dissertations & Theses

Kumfer,Earl Thomas. Lonergan and Polanyi on Cognitive Meaning. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale,1982. DAI: 43/1982-83,1576-A

Manning, Paul. A Descriptive Exposition of the Mathematics Used by Bernard Lonergan in the Development of his Philosophical-Theological System (1957-1972). New York University, 1983, under direction of Kenneth Goldberg. University microfilm order number: DA 8406303. DAI: 44/1983-84, 3715-A.

The Introduction and early chapters provide a biography of Lonergan and show his relationship to Scholasticism. Chapter 3 shows the wide range of L's. mathematical examples, and chapter 4 attempts to classify them as secondary school, under-graduate or graduate level mathematics. Disciples of L. may be surprised how many pertain to secondary school mathematics. In the crucial 5th chapter, the author points out many of L's. mathematical "errors." Most of these are not so much mistakes as inaccuracies or statements plagued by lack of precision. In chapter 6 the author criticizes L. for his lack of scholarship in not giving specific references for most of his mathematical sources. The final two chapters consider L's. philosophical-theological method. Chapter 7 gives examples of how L. uses mathematics to make philosophical points or to justify his transcendental method. The last chapter presents a series of the author's "reflections" (often negative) concerning L's. knowledge of and use of mathematics. The harshest criticism, however, is reserved for the philosophers and theologians who read L's. works, particularly Insight, so uncritically, at least as far as L's. mathematics was concerned. Finally, the author gives his personal evaluation (more positive) of L's. overall achievement.

Perry, Robert. Spiritual Direction: The Foundations of Religious Analysis and Religious Therapy in Lonergan's Third Stage of Meaning. Union Graduate School in Cincinnati, Ohio, under the direction of Bob Doran and Tom Levin (a Jungian psychotherapist in Chicago). DAI: 45/1984-85, 212-A.

The central theme in this study is the self-appropriation of the Christian religious experience. The central issue focuses on the divinely originated solution to the problem of moral evil. The movement in this study is heuristic, exploring the framework and establishing the structures in which the process of appropriating the Christian religious experience takes place. Volume I relates to the functional specialty, foundations, in theological method, and considers religious analysis as the framework in which religious self-appropriation occurs. Volume II relates to the functional specialty, communications, and represents a method of spiritual direction which heads toward religious therapy or the praxis of religious analysis. Lonergan's intentionality analysis, complemented by Doran's psychic analysis, provides the overall framework for this study, while Jung's notion of individuation provides the dialectical component in which the notion of psychic self-appropriation might be more easily understood. Tracy's hermeneutic of the Christ-event as the Christian religious classic sets the stage for the process of religious self-appropriation.