Complete Bibliography of Lonergan Studies

Dissertations & Theses

Lonergan Studies Newsletter 6/3 September 1985

Publications

With Foreword by Jacques Monet, and Introduction by Jean-Marc Laporte. Includes (pp. 35-40) the text of Fr. Crowe's homily at the funeral of Bernard Lonergan. The essay itself illuminates the relevance of Lonergan's work to dialogue among the major religions of the world.

Crowe, Frederick. "Bernard J.F. Lonergan, SJ, 1904-1984." Canadian Theological Society Newsletter 5:6-8 (1985).

Helminiak, Daniel A., and Chavez-Garcia, Sylvia. "Sexuality and Spirituality: Friends, Not Foes." The Journal of Pastoral Care 39:151-63 (1985).

Conceives personal integration in terms of the Lonergan-Doran body-psyche-spirit model of the human.

Lawrence, Frederick (ed.). Lonergan Workshop, Volume V. Chico,CA: Scholars Press, 1985. The contents are:

Editor's Notes (iii-iv).

Crowe, F. "Son and Spirit: Tension in the Divine Missions?" 1-21.

Doran, Robert. "Primary Process and the Spiritual Unconsciousness." 23-47.

Dunne, Tad. "Faith, Charity, Hope." 49-70.

Lamb, Matthew. "The Dialectics of Theory and Praxis within Paradigm Analysis." 71-114.

Mathews, William. "Intellectual Conversion and Science Education." 115-44.

Moore, Sebastian. "The New Life." 145-62.

Price, James. "Lonergan and the Foundation of a Contemporary Mystical Theology." 163-95.

Happel, Stephen. "Whether Sacraments Liberate Communities: Some Reflections upon Image as an Agent in Achieving Freedom." 197-217.

Hefling, Charles. "Redemption and Intellectual Conversion: Notes on Lonergan's 'Christology Today.' " 219-61.

Lawrence, Fred. "Basic Christian Community: An Issue of 'Mind and the Mystery of Christ.' " 263-88.

Piscitelli, Emil. "The Fundamental Attitudes of the Liberally Educated Person: Foundational Dialectics." 289-342.

O'Donovan, Leo. "Ahead of Us Still." Criterion (U of Chicago Divinity School), Spring 1985, pp. 7-9.

A tribute to the life and work of Karl Rahner and Bernard Lonergan.

Reviews

W. Charles Heiser in Theology Digest 32:84 (1985).

Dissertations & Theses

Tom Cooper's abstract: The thesis is divided into three parts. 1) An introductory chapter relates how Mozart's Cherubino asked whether what he felt for Susanna was lover or something else. I suggest that this is the universal religious question. Until Lonergan Catholic theology neglected the notion of conversion. Chapters 2 to 8 examine the historical reasons for this, making use of Lonergan's critique of classicist theologies which neglected the existential subject and reified the supernatural. I argue that Lonergan has made a major contribution by retrieving for conversion its central role in theology. 2) In chapters 9 to 18 I examine Lonergan's disjunction of consciousness and knowledge. I criticize the notion of consciousness, as found in Freud and Jung, noting the conceptual difficulties inherent in their identification of consciousness with knowledge understood as perception. I suggest that Lonergan's account of consciousness is epistemologically superior to that currently operative in most depth psychology. It allows for the critical control of psychiatric evidence, rejecting the notion of an unconscious, arguing that all that is conscious is not necessarily known. 3) In chapters 19 to 23 I examine Lonergan's claim that grace is conscious but may be misunderstood and unrecognized, comparing it to Rahner's notion of anonymous Christianity. I discuss Lonergan's claim that falling in love, whether with another human or with God, subverts the normal priority of knowledge over love, noting the danger of its uncritical misuse. I argue that Lonergan's formulation of three conversionsand Doran's postulation of a fourthresults in splitting consciousness. The claim that in matters of the heart love precedes knowledge is a relic of the faculty psychology which Lonergan rejects. I argue that a recovery of Aquinas' aesthetics with its stress on the heart as the perichoresis of knowledge and love will provide a viable critique of spiritual discernment.Tom writes that anyone who wants a copy can get one from him for the price of photocopy and postage. The thesis is long312 pagesso at present exchanges, that would probably be about $30. Address: The Presbytery, 1 Meeting Lane, Towcester, NN12 7JX England.

Kelleher, Margaret. Liturgy as an Ecclesial Act of Meaning: Foundations and Methodological Consequences for a Liturgical Spirituality. Catholic University of America, 1983. Directed by Mary Collins, OSB. Readers: Joseph Komonchak and Phyllis Chock. University Microfilm Order No. 8318794. DAI: 44/1983-84,1125-A

This is an interdisciplinary dissertation which uses principles from Bernard Lonergan and Victor Turner to create theoretical foundations for understanding liturgy as ecclesial performative meaning which is symbolically mediated and to propose a method for objectifying the spirituality of liturgical performance.

Lonergan Studies Newsletter 6/4 December 1985

Publications

Translation by Evelyn Dumas of "Dimensions of Meaning." To appear in collection of Lonergan's philosophical articles edited by P. Lambert.

F. E. Crowe. "A Note on Lonergan's Dissertation and its Introductory Pages." Pp. 1-8.

Bernard Lonergan. "The Gratia Operans Dissertation: Preface and Introduction," pp. 9-46.

With Appendix I, "Lonergan's List of Chapters," p. 47, and Appendix II, "Note Prefixed to 'Excerpta' from the Dissertation," pp. 48-49.

Charles Hef1ing, Jr. "Turning Liberalism Inside Out," pp. 51-69.

A review of George Lindbeck's The Nature of Doctrine.

Bevans, Stephen. "Models of Contextual Theology." Missiology: An International Review 13:185-202 (1985).

Discusses six models of contextual theology, including the transcendental which, the author claims, has been developed by Rahner and Lonergan.

Blandino, G. "La 'Filosofia dell'uomo' di J. Szaszkiewicz e la possibilita di costruire una macchina the si autoriproduca." Aquinas 25:191-202 (1982).

A study of the philosophy of humanness proposed by Szaszkiewicz in the book noted in the Newsletter 5/1 (1984).

Conn, Walter E. "Passionate Commitment: The Dynamics of Affective Conversion." Cross Currents 34:329-36 (1984) .

Crowe, Frederick, E. Old Things and New: A Strategy for Education. Altanta: Scholars Press, 1985.

Supplementary Issue of the Lonergan Workshop journal, Vol. V. With appendix on the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius.

Daly, Gabriel. "Catholic Theology During the Last Two Decades." Doctrine and Life 34:52-62 (1984).

Uses Lonergan's notion of theology to study recent trends.

Delaney, Hubert. "From 'Viewpoint' in Insight to 'Horizon' in Method in Theology." Milltown Studies No. 11:75-98 (Spring 1983); No. 12:45-60 (Autumn 1983); No. 13:95106 (Spring 1984).

The third part is entitled " 'Horizon' in Method: Implications for Education."

Doran, Robert. "Theology's Situation: Questions to Eric Voegelin." In F. Lawrence (ed.), The Beginning and the Beyond, pp. 69-91. See Newsletter 5/4 (1984).

Dunne, Tad. Lonergan and Spirituality: Towards a Spiritual Integration. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1985.

Dunne, Tad. "Trinity and History." Theological Studies 45:139-52 (1924).

An update on Lonergan's "late" Trinitarian work.

Henle, Robert J. "Transcendental Thomism: A Critical Assessment." Victor B. Rrezik (ed.), One Hundred Years of Thomism: Aeterni Patris and Afterwards. Houston: Center for Thomistic Center, University of St. Thomas, 1982, pp. 901-116.

Author says that Lonergan lies outside the tradition of transcendental Thomism; claims that Lonergan's review of Coreth and Gilson misunderstands both philosophers. "In my opinion," says Henle, "this is perhaps the weakest piece of philosophical writing ever produced by Fr. Lonergan." It is "simply absurd" to claim that for Gilson there existed an epistemological problem of the "bridge," and totally mistaken to call Coreth an "immediate realist" (111-12).

Lawrence, Frederick. "Language as Horizon?" The Beginning and the Beyond (as above), pp. 13-33.

Lawrence, Frederick. "On 'The Meditative Origin of the Philosophical Knowledge of Order.' " The Beginning and the Beyond (as above), pp. 53-67.

Marasigan, Vicente. _A Banahaw Guru: Symbolic Deeds of Agapito Illustrisimo. Ateneo de Manila University Press, P.O. Box 154, Manila, Philippines, 1985.

An attempt to concretize the four transcendental precepts in Lonergan's Method in Theology with a case-study based on the author's experiential immersion as a participant observer in a religious community residing in a remote rural village on Mount Banahaw. The study includes an English translation of an historical document compiled in Tagalog by the elders of this community and some photographs of its religious activities.

Milhaven, John Giles. "The Role of the Affective in the Moral Life." CTSA Proceedings 39:163-65 (1984).

Part of the report on "Seminar on Moral Theology"; see pp. 164-65 for Nancy Ring's use of Lonergan's ideas.

Nichols, Aidan. "Unity and Plurality in Theology. Lonergan's 'Method' and the Counter-Claims of a Theory of Paradigms." Anqelicum 62:30-52 (1985).

The initial section critiques Lonergan's method, while the latter part discusses Method in relation to unity and plurality.

Norris, Thomas. "Why the Marriage of Christians is One of the Seven Sacraments." Irish Theological Quarterly 51:37-51 (1985).

For the author's dependence on Newman and Lonergan, see pp. 49-50.

Payne, Gordon, R. "Cognitive Intuition of Singulars Revisited (Matthew of Aquasparta versus B.J.F. Lonergan)." Franciscan Studies 41:346-84 (1981).

Riley, Philip Boo. "Theology and/or Religious Studies: A Case Study of Studies in Religion/Sciences religieuses, 1971-1981." Studies in Religion/Sciences religieuses 13:423-44.

See esp. pp. 439-43 for references to Lonergan's work.

Scannone, Juan Carlos. "E1 metodo de la Teologia de la Liberacion." Theologica Xaveriana 34:369-99 (1984). Some use of Lonergan's work: e.g., see p. 377, n. 17; pp. 384, 389.