Complete Bibliography of Lonergan Studies

Dissertations & Theses

Budenholzer, Frank. Unity and Pluralism: _A Study of the Theological Method of Bernard J.F. Lonergan. Directed by Zachary Hayes at Catholic Theological Union (Chicago), 1974. Master’s thesis.

Lonergan Studies Newsletter 6/1 March 1985

Publications

Translation of the Verbum articles (directly from Theological Studies, but with reference to French and English book publications). With preface and introduction by N. Spaccapelo and Pietro Cardoletti, respectively.

Beer, Peter. "Purgatory, Trent and Today." The Australasian Catholic Record 61:369-84 (1984).

Uses Lonergan to develop a contemporary understanding of purgatory.

Boys, Mary C."The Role of Theology in Religious Education." Horizons 11:61-85 (1984).

Occasional mention of Lonergan, Tracy et al. in discussing religious education within the contexts of religious studies and theology.

Bracken, Joseph A. "Authentic Subjectivity and Genuine Objectivity." Horizons 11:290-303 (1984).

Some discussion of Lonergan's notions of subjectivity and objectivity.

Corbett, Thomas. "Communion and Authority: Some Recent Books." The Irish Theological Quarterly 50:67-74 (1983-84).

Includes discussion of Terry Tekippe et al., Papal Infallibility, on pp. 73-74.

Gerhart, Mary. "Lonergan's Diverse Value." Commonweal 112:184-85 (1985).

Kereszty, Roch. "Psychological Subject and consciousness in Christ." Communio 11:258-77 (1984).

McCarroll, Joseph. "A Scissors Ever Sharpening: A Retrospective Glance at the Emergence and Development of Voegelin's Method." Religious Studies Review 10:26-29.

McCool, Gerald A. "History, Insight and Judgment in Thomism." Proceedings of the Jesuit Philosophical Association 47:37-68 (1985).

McKelvey, Charles. "Christian Epistemology and Social Scientific Method: Bernard Lonergan's Achievement." Thought 59:334-47 (1984).

Meynell, Hugo A. "On the Aims of Education." Proceedings of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain 10:79-97 (1976).

Discussion of education as inculcation of Lonergan's transcendental precepts.

Moloney, Raymond. "The Mind of Christ in Transcendental Theology: Rahner, Lonergan and Crowe," The Heythrop Journal 25:288-300 (1984).

Nudas, Alfeo G. "Struggling Against a Feudal Liberal Education." University of the Philippines Newsletter 5-6 (July 9, 1984) and 5-6, 8 (July 16, 1984) .

Remolina, Gerardo. "La Autonomia del metodo Teologico." Theologica Xaveriana 33:153-73 (1983).

Ring, Nancy. "Sin and Transformation from a Systematic Perspective." Chicago Studies 23:303-19 (1984).

Sawicki, Marianne. "Religion, Symbol, and the Twenty-year old Demythologizer." Horizons 11:320-43 (1984).

Occasional discussion of Lonergan in relation to stages of religious knowing.

Shea, William M. The Naturalists and the Supernatural: Studies in Horizon and an American Philosophy of Religion. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1984.

See, especially, chapters two and three for the book's relevance to Lonergan's thought.

Steidl-Meier, Paul. Social Justice Ministry: Foundations and Concerns. New York: Le Jacq Publishing Inc., 1984.

Some use of Lonergan's thought: see especially pp. 28-55 and 286-310.

Swain, Bernard F. "Lonergan's Framework for the Future." Commonweal 112:46-5U (1985).

Reviews

M. Lapierre in Review for Religious 44:149-50 (1985).

Dissertations & Theses

This dissertation is not yet listed with University Microfilms in Ann Arbor, but anyone interested may write the author directly at St. Thomas Seminary, 1300 S. Steele St., Denver CO 80210.

Matustik, Martin J. Bernard Lonergan's Notion of Mediation: The Argument from Operational Development. Done under James L. Marsh at St. Louis University, 1985. Master’s thesis.

From the precis: "The objective of this thesis is an interpretation of Bernard Lonergan's notion of mediation and his use of mediation in his thematization of human operational development. Accordingly, Part One introduces the set of basic and derived terms, i.e., mediation in general, mutual mediation, and self-mediation; and Part Two expands this outline in an exposition of Lonergan's classification of self-mediation in human operational development, i.e., consciousness as self-constituting, consciousness as mediated by meaning, and consciousness as differentiated through controls of meaning and value."

Lonergan Studies Newsletter 6/2 June 1985

Publications

Numbers in parentheses are references to a Lonergan bibliography of 657 items (in a binder) dated April 30, 1983, prepared by Michael O’Callaghan. The volume contains the following articles:

Editor's Introduction. Pp. 1-2.

"Dialectic of Authority." Pp. 5-12. First published in 1974 (#514).

An analysis of authority as "legitimate power," of the source of power as cooperation, of the carrier of power as community, and of authenticity as legitimizing power by authority.

"Method: Trend and Variations." Pp. 13-22. Previously unpublished lecture given in 1974 (518).

A discussion of method in science, the contrast between logic and method, the notion of horizon, and the development of methodical issues as illustrated by Talcott Parsons' account of "The Theoretical Development of the Sociology of Religion."

"Mission and the Spirit." Pp. 23-34. Previously published in 1976 (566).

Lonergan addresses the question, What in terms of human consciousness is the transition from the natural to the supernatural?

"Aquinas Today: Tradition and Innovation." Pp. 35-54. First published in 1975 (541).

The different types of transformation a learned tradition may undergo; postmedieval limitations on Aristotle's acceptability; Aquinas' involvement in these limitations; the ongoing relevance of Aquinas.

"Prologemena to the Study of the Emerging Religious Consciousness of Our Time." Pp. 55-73. Previously published in 1980 (624).

The notion of consciousness as infrastructure; social alienation; the cultural factor of the second enlightenment; some contemporary witnesses to emerging religious consciousness (Whitson, Wm. Johnston, Panikkar, etc.).

"Christology Today: Methodological Reflections." Pp. 74-99. First published in 1976 (565).

Discussion of elements new to Christology today: from psychology, history and psychology; Christology as a religious and theological question; the meaning of Chalcedon; how Christ could be a man without being a human person.

"Healing and Creating in History." Pp. 100-109. Previously published in 1975 (537).

The need for healing and creating illustrated by the contemporary economic situation; the call for fresh insights and the scotosis of bias; healing as development, both from below upwards and from above downwards.

The following three lectures were given as the Donald Mathers Memorial Lectures in 1976 (Lonergan Bibliography 568).

"Lectures on Religious Studies and Theology: "Preface." Pp. 113-14.

Previously unpublished.

"First Lecture: Religious Experience." Pp. 113-28. (596).

The ambiguity of experience; the cultivation of religious experience; the immanent context of religious experience.

"Second Lecture: Religious Knowledge." Pp. 129-45. (597).

On what is meant by affirming the validity or objectivity of religious knowledge; the relation between inner conviction and objective truth, where the former is the fruit of self-transcendence and the latter is the fruit of authentic subjectivity.

"Third Lecture: The Ongoing Genesis of Methods." Pp. 146-65. (567).

Modern learning as grounded in method; experimental, foundational, historical, dialectical and critically practical methods; conclusions about the relation of religion, religious studies and theology.

"Natural Right and Historical Mindedness." Pp. 169-83. (579) .

On the possibility of collective responsibility through bringing together the Greek notion of natural right and the nineteenth-century notion of historical mindedness; includes lengthy discussion of the dialectic of history.

"Theology and Praxis." Pp. 184-201. (578).

On whether there are basic theological questions whose solution depends on the personal development of theologians; B. Welte's questioning of Nicea, Voegelin's attention to the search for the meaning of life, and the notion of theology as basically a praxis.

"A Post-Hegelian Philosophy of Religion." Pp. 202-23. (See Newsletter 4:91983).

The common dynamics discernible in methods generally and the different dynamics in distinct fields of inquiry; the divergence and possible unity of results that arise when different methods are employed in the same field, e.g., in religious studies.

"Pope John's Intention." Pp. 224-38. (635).

"Pope John's Intention."The notion of a pastoral council; authenticity as the genuine fruit of religious education and of pastoral ministry.

"Unity and Plurality: The Coherence of Christian Truth." Pp. 239-50. (See Newsletter 5:91984).

"Unity and Plurality: The Coherence of Christian Truth."On differentiations of consciousness; pluralism and theological doctrines; pluralism and conversion.

The current issue of Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, contains the following:

Crowe, F.E. "A Note on the Prefaces of Insight." Pp. 1-3.

Fr. Crowe sketches the history of Lonergan's work in writing the Preface to Insight.

Lonergan, Bernard. "The Original Preface to Insight." Pp. 3-7.

The version of the Preface first intended by Lonergan to introduce Insight, and entirely different from the version eventually published.

Mathews, William. "Lonergan's Economics." Pp. 9-30.

Meynell, Hugo. "Reversing Rorty." Pp. 31-48.

Maguire, John F. "Price Markups and Moral Decline." Pp. 49-57.

Gerhart, Mary and Russell, Allan. Metaphoric Process: The Creation of Scientific and Religious Understanding. Fort Worth, TX: Texas Christian University Press, 1984.

Meynell, Hugo. "The Intelligible World of Bernard Lonergan." Canadian Catholic Review 3:85-87 (1985).

Navone, John. "Christian Conversion: Suffering out of Love." Review for Religious 44:33-38 (1985).

O'Donohoe, James. "The Challenge of Teaching Morality Today." The Living Light 21:253-59 (1985).

Price, James. "The Objectivity of Mystical Truth Claims." The Thomist 49:81-98 (1985).

Skrenes, Carol. "Lonergan's Metaphysics: Ontological Implications of Insight-as-Event." International Philosophical Quarterly 24:407-25 (1984).

Vertin, Michael. "Toward a Theology of Evil: Process and Transcendental Approaches in Dialogue." Catholic Theological Society of America Proceedings 39:166-69 (1984) .