Complete Bibliography of Lonergan Studies

Dissertations & Theses

In his talk at the Lonergan Workshop at Boston College 1986, Frederick Crowe stressed the importance of the theme of inculturation in contemporary theology and Pointed out the contribution of Lonergan to this theme. This dissertation relates the theoretical work of Lonergan to the actual process of inculturation and African theology. The African Christian Church is at a Stage in its growth where it is trying to develop its own theology in the context of its own culture and situation. It is not clear how this task is to be achieved and by whom. The very idea of an African theology seems to challenge the classicist assumptions that there is one universal Catholic Theology. Lonergan in his essay on Doctrinal Pluralism and in the wider context of Method in Theology provides a framework to justify and guide the development of an authentic African Christian theology, while at the same time enhancing the unity of the Church. He outlines three sources of pluralism, presence or absence of conversion; presence or absence of differentiation of consciousness; and the diversity of cultures and communications. These sources of pluralism are also the sources of unity. The thesis is an exposition of Lonergan's schema in the context of the current situation in East Africa, with a view to encouraging this process of inculturation.

Streeter, Carla Mae. Religious Love in Bernard Lonergan as Hermeneutical and Transcultural. Regis College, Toronto, 1986. Director: Robert Doran, SJ. 47/1986-87, 3788-A to 3789-A

The thesis seeks to substantiate that religious love, in the thought of the Canadian Jesuit and methodologist Bernard Lonergan, makes a significant contribution to hermeneutical theory and that theory's completeness for theological involvement in transcultural religious dialogue. The study proceeds along three lines. First, it considers the hermeneutical context itself, a sketch of its development, the current hermeneutical debate and its specific problems brought into relief by the scholarship of Betti, Ricoeur, Heidegger, Habermas, Apel, and Gadamer, and the focusing of what needs to be addressed if the seeming impasse in hermeneutical theory is to be dissolved. Second, it presents the thought of Bernard Lonergan, and in particular Lonergan's shift to interiority analysis. This differentiation of consciousness in the interpreter is entered by the subject when one appropriates one's own cognitional operations, can name, distinguish, and relate them. The entrance into interiority by the interpreter, through a heightening of consciousness that moves behind both theoretical and commonsense modes of thought, creates a potential viewpoint that is universally inclusive of any and all viewpoints. This change of the horizon of the interpreter is a change in hermeneutical consciousness itself, one that must be accounted for in an integral hermeneutics (Gadamer). Third, when the interpreter has entered into a relationship of love, and in particular religious love, the universal viewpoint undergoes a significant change. That viewpoint now includes a consideration of transcendent Mystery. The effects of such a change can be named, distinguished, and related to one another and to the interpretive task itself as carried on by deliberate conscious operation in hermeneutical endeavor. The study closes with a beginning application of its findings to the project of the reconstruction of Catholic Christian theology itself to enable its theologians to enter credibly into dialogue with the empirical sciences and with world religions.

Lonergan Studies Newsletter 7/4 December 1986

Publications

Translation of Lonergan's "Unity and Plurality: The Coherence of Christian Truth."

Angers, Pierre and Bouchard, Colette. La mise en oeuvre du projet d'integration. Montreal: Editions Bellarmin, 1984. De 1'experience a l'intuition. Montreal: Editions Bellarmin, 1985. L'Intuition dans l'apprentissage. Montreal: Editions Bellarmin, 1985.

These three volumes are part of a series, L'Activite educative: Une theorie, une pratique, inspired by Lonergan's Insight.

Blandino, Giovanni. "Discussione sul problema critico." Aquinas: Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia 28:519-33 (1985) .

Carmody, John. Ecology and Religion: Toward a New Christian Theology of Nature. New York: Paulist Press, 1983.

Modeled on Lonergan's functional specialties.

Conn, Walter. Christian Conversion: A Developmental Interpretation of Autonomy and Surrender. New York: Paulist Press, 1986.

Crowe, Frederick. "Bernard Lonergan as Pastoral Theologian." Gregorianum 67:451-70 (1986).

Drilling, Peter. "Lonergan's Method and Christian Ministry." Science et Esprit 38:181-202 (1986).

Egan, Robert J. "Understanding Social Justice: A Context for the Pastoral." Church 2:50-55 (Summer 1986).

Farrelly, John. God's Work in a Changing World. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1985.

Francisco, Jose M. "Telic Contemplation as Unburdening." Philippine Studies 28:363-69 (1980).

Iwashima, Tadahiko. "Concerning the Theology of Religions -- Reflections Based on a Study of P. Knitter." Katorikku Kenkyu (Catholic Studies) 25:157-90 (1986).

Japanese with English summary.

Kerans, Patrick. "Hope, Objectivity, and Technical Culture. "Continuum 7:570-82 (1969).

Latourelle, Rene. "La scomparsa di un grande teologo: Bernard Lonergan, SJ (1904-1984)." Informazioni PUG (Pontificia Universita Gregoriana, Rome) 17:16-18 (1985) .

Lawrence, Fred. "Transcendence as Interruption: Theology in a Political Mode." In Alan M. Olson and Leroy S. Rouner (eds.) Transcendence and the Sacred. University of Notre Dame Press, 1981.

Liddy, Richard. "What is Truth?" Catholic Charismatic 3:26-29 (Dec. 1978-Jan. 1979).

Martinez, Edmundo. "Promotion of Faith and Justice and the Philippine Jesuit University." Philippine Studies 29:477-500 (1981).

McCarroll, Joseph. Journey to the Centre of the Person. Dublin: Radix Press, 1986.

McCool, Gerald. "An Alert and Independent Thomist: William Norris Clarke, SJ." International Philosophical Quarterly 26:3-22 (1986).

Meynell, Hugo. "Aspects of the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen." Dialogue 25:83-92 (1986).

Morelli, Elizabeth A. Anxiety: A Study of the Affectivity of Moral Consciousness. Lanham, MD University Press of America, 1985.

Navone, John. "Narrative Theology and its Uses: A Survey." The Irish Theological Quarterly 52:212-30 (1986).

Perez Valera, Eduardo. "The Achievement of Bernard Lonergan." Katorikku Kenkyu (Catholic Studies) 24:15588 (1985).

Japanese text with English summary. Same article in Philosophical Studies (Tokyo) 12:81-113 (1986) .

Perez Valera, Eduardo. "The Roots of Bernard Lonergan's Insight." Katorikku Kenkyu (Catholic Studies) 25:25-55 (1986) .

Rigali, Norbert J. "The Unity of Moral and Pastoral Truth." Chicago Studies 25:224-32 (1986).

Robert, Pierre. "Le Lonergan Workshop 1986." Science et Esprit 38:241-43 (1986).

Roy, Louis. "La contribution de Bernard Lonergan a la theologie contemporaine." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 14:475-85 (1985)

Sala, Giovanni. "Bernard Lonergan, SJ: un teo logo esamina la propria mente." La Nottola (Pergola/Perugia) 4:35-50 (1985).

Sala, Giovanni. "Das Apriori in der Erkenntnis: Zu einem Grundproblem der Kantischen Kritik." Akten des 5. Internationalen Kant. Kongresses 1:772-80 (1981).

Sala, Giovanni. "Kants antithetisches Problem and Lonergans rationale Auffassung von der Wirklichkeit." Gregorianum 67:471-516 (1986).

Scannone, J. "E1 Papel del Analisis Social en las Teologias de Liberacion contextuadas." Stromata 43:137-58 (1986).

Velez Velez, Juan Gregorio. "Para entender y vivir la inculturation." Theologica Xaveriana 36:81-99 (1986).