Complete Bibliography of Lonergan Studies

Reviews

O’Callaghan, Michael. (1981). Lonergan Studies Newsletter 2/2 (1981) [A review, omitted from this listing. Original available in archives at Lonergan Research Institute, Toronto. – ed.].

Mason (ed). Inquiry and Attunement, Melbourne and Therese (eds.) (LSN 4/3 p2) and Cahn, Elaine. The Question as Commitment. (LSN 1/1)

O’Callaghan, Michael. Horizons 10:204-205 (1983).

Kelly, W. Theology and Discovery. (LSN 2/3 )

O’Callaghan, Michael. Method 2:50-54 (1984).

Morelli, M. Philosophy's P1ace in Culture. (LSN 5/1 )

O’Callaghan, Michael. Horizons 12:213-14 (1985).

C. Hefling. Why Doctrines? (LSN 5/4 )

O’Callaghan, Michael. Horizons 12:388-89 (1985).

Dissertations & Theses

This thesis demonstrates that the foundations of Lonergan's philosophy are neither primarily epistemological nor primarily ontological, but are evenly balanced between epistemology and ontology. The balance is achieved, not by compromise or conflation of the two standpoints, but by recognition of a fact about reality: that while being is knowable, and may therefore be specified through acts of knowing, knowing is itself within being, and therefore may be specified ontologically. This gnoseo-ontological circularity wherein knowing and being imply one another demands that epistemology and metaphysics complete one another.

Lonergan's philosophy facilitates such a mutual completion. He develops a theory of cognitional operations as the basis and critical measure for philosophical thought, including metaphysics. He defines being heuristically, as the objective of the pure desire to know. And he defines the metaphysical elements of potency, form, and act as corollaries to the cognitional operations of experience, understanding, and judgment. But at the same time, his realist epistemology allows and encourages a repetition of cognitional theory itself from a metaphysical standpoint: the metaphysical elements are corollaries to cognition because they are principles of cognition; for, again, knowing is within being.

Chapter one elaborates and defends the foregoing in general terms. Subsequent chapters follow the working-out of Lonergan's gnoseo-ontological approach in three major works. (1) In Verbum, it is present in Lonergan’s effort to identify a critical dimension to a psychology that Aquinas developed in an essentially metaphysical framework. (2) In Insight, it is a basis for a new kind of metaphysical framework. (3) In Method in Theology, it is present in his broadening of his philosophical program to include a wider range of existential and methodological issues.

Frisby, Mark E. A Critical Appropriation of the Concepts and Positions of Bernard Lonergan’s ‘Insight’/ De Paul University. Chicago, June 1986. DAI: 47/1986-87,2612-A.

McGinley, Kevin Patrick. Psychic and Intellectual Conversion in the Philosophy of Bernard Lonergan. Boston College, 1985. DAI: 47/1986-87, 2613-A

Lipscome, Paul Antoine. An Investigation of Bernard Lonergan’s Notion of Objectivity. Gonzaga University, Spokane, 1981. Master’s thesis.

Keaty, Anthony William. Lonergan’s Notion of Reflective Understanding. Gonzaga University, Spokane, 1981. Master’s thesis.

McGrath, Tom. Personal Faith and Scientific Theology: A Comparison Between Lonergan’s ‘Method inTheology’ and Pannenberg’s Wissenshaftstheorie und Theologie. Leopold-Franzens Universitaet in Innsbruck, 1982. Master’s thesis.

Lonergan Studies Newsletter 8/3 September 1987

Publications

Lonergan, B. Conversations with Eric O'Connor. See below.

Arndt, Stephen Wentworth. "Transcendental Method and Transcendental Arguments." International Philosophical Quarterly 27:43-58(1987).

Carmody, Denise Lardner. "The Utilities of Bernard Lonergan." Religion and Intellectual Life 3:60-77 (1986).

Cooper, Thomas. "The Eucharistic Heart of Mary." Adoremus 67:22-35 (1987.

This is the journal of the Priests' Eucharistic League and is obtainable from the Editor, John Paul Centre, 55 Grange Road, Middlesborough, Cleveland, England.

Cooper, Thomas. "The Voice of Insight." The Catholic Gazette (monthly review of the Catholic Missionary Society of London) 78:9-14 (July 1987).

This seeks to relate the Hebrew idiom of the Bath Qol, particularly as found in the Gospels, with the Archimedean Eureka. Copies available from 114 West Heath Road, London NW3 7TX.

Hooper, Leon. The Ethics of Discourse: John Courtney Murray's Social Philosophy.

"Fr. Hooper reveals in detail for the first time the importance of Bernard Lonergan's thought in moving Murray toward and then beyond his vital contribution to Vatican II's Declaration on Religious Liberty."

McKinney, Ronald. "Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Lonergan vs. Bohm." The Modern Schoolman 64:97-110 (1987).

Meyer, Ben A. "Critical Realism and Biblical Theology." Religious Studies and Theology 6:39-51 (September, 1968).

Nudas, Alfeo G. God with Us: The 1986 Philippine Revolution.

A mainly Lonerganian interpretation of the events of the 1986 Philippine revolution. Available from Lonergan Center (Manila), P.O. Box 4082, Manila, Philippines. $4 per copy plus $2 overseas airmail postage.

O'Connor, R. Eric. Curiosity at the Center of One's Life.

Features statements and questions of Eric O'Connor over 32 years, during which he came to realize, and talk about, his increasing understanding of Lonergan's thought and its implications at every level of adult learning and self-appropriation. Includes one section of 68 pp. which contains conversations with Lonergan: "What I Have Learned about Knowing since Writing Insight," Feb. 25, 1969; With Method in Theology ready to print March 30, 1971; "Grace after Faculty Psychology," Dec. 30, 1971; "A Dinner Conversation," March 28, 1980. 600 pp. $25 paper, $40 hardback. Order from Thomas More Institute, 3421 Drummond Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1X7. Add postage: $5 U.S. and Canada; $6 other.

Tolosa-Duremdes, Amy. Married and Holy: Marriage as Pathway to Holiness.

Lonergan's five transcendental precepts applied to the psychology and theology of marriage. Available from Lonergan Center (Manila), P. 0. Box 4082, Manila, Philippines, $4 per copy plus $2 overseas airmail postage.