Complete Bibliography of Lonergan Studies

Dissertations & Theses

"It is, I believe, thoroughly Lonerganian. In it I use Insight in order to explore the way clinicians have insight about the diagnoses and treatments of their patients. Then, I explore the design of a curriculum that would have as its aim to teach, not the contents of medicine, but to have insight as a clinician would. I believe it can be used by anyone who is interested in curriculum development from a Lonerganian perspective, not just people in medical education. The dissertation is available from University Microfilms, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106."

Lonergan Studies Newsletter 8/4 December 1987

Publications

See Ch. 7, "Bernard Lonergan: Mind, Method and God"; also Preface and Conclusion, .

Blandino, Giovanni. "Una discussione sul problema critico della conoscenza." La Civilta Cattolica 111:150-56 (1987).

Braio, Frank Paul. Lonergan's Retrieval of the Notion of Human Being: Clarifications of and Reflections on the Argument of Insight, Chapters I-XVIII. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988. 440 pp.

A corrected and expanded version of dissertation below. Frank writes: In the recently recovered original preface of Insight, Lonergan indicates that the problem of human Self-knowledge has taken on the proportions of a social crisis and that it could be interpreted as the key "historical issue" of this age. Insight addresses this issue by transcendentally establishing a universally invariant heuristic of human Being. This consists in a "basic" set of terms and relations which 1) specify an open set of connected questions; 2) answer to the performance of any human subject in the fullness of his/her humanness, the reader included.

The "grounds" of the heuristic are "established" by guiding the reader through an expanding series of reflections upon the increasingly differentiated "patterns" of his/her own conscious performance. Again, these grounds "come up" because the subject always inevitably raises of him/herself the question of what it means to be human. Thus, the point of Lonergan's explorations of heuristic structure in the sciences and in philosophy; of the "patterns" of human aesthetic, biological, dramatic, and common sense experience, etc., is that they bring us back to or reveal facets of a possible answering to the question of and/or decision for our own Being as human. Again, they engage us in the performative inevitabilities of our own Being. But these reveal the "form" of both a definitive answer and decision, and its dialectically opposed, deficient modes and both admit and presuppose transposition into a contemporary, fully explanatory "perspective." Again, it is argued that such a perspective is "foundational" for the empirical human sciences.

Finally, in addition to the perspective it affords, the book is meant to foster a systematic reading of Lonergan's Insight from the hindsight afforded by his later work. It also includes an extended bibliography of secondary literature on Lonergan's work.

Byrne, Patrick H. "Economic Transformations: The Role of Conversions and Culture in the Transformation of Economics." In Timothy P. Fallon and Philip Boo Riley, (eds.). Re1igion and Culture: Essays in Honor of Bernard Lonergan, SJ. Albany, 1987, pp. 327-48.

Byrne, Patrick H. and Keeley, Richard D. "LeCorbusier's Finger and Jacob's Thought: The Loss and Recovery of the Subject in the City." In Fred Lawrence (ed.). Communicating a Dangerous Memory: Soundings in Political Theology (supplementary issue of the Lonergan Workshop Journal, v. 6), 1987, pp. 62-111.

Cronin, Brian. "Religious and Christian Conversion in an African Context." African Christian Studies 3:19-35 (June, 1987).

Davis, Charles. What is Living What is Dead in Christianity Today? Breaking the Liberal-Conservative Deadlock. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1986.

Driscoll, Jeremy, "The Psalms and Psychic Conversion." Cistercian Studies, fasc.2, 1987, pp. 91-110.

Falcao, Nelson. 'Knowing' According to Bernard Lonergan. Vatican City: Urbaniana University Press, 1987.

Fletcher, Frank. "Gospel and Australian Culture: The Role of Personal Spiritual Experience and Praxis." Compass Theology Review 21:2-6 (1987).

Gibbons, Michael. "Economic Theorizing: in Lonergan and Keynes." In Religion and Culture, as above, pp. 313-25.

Kenny, Anthony. "Aquinas: Intentionality." In Ted Honderich (ed.). Philosophy Through its Past. Penguin Books, 1984, pp. 78-81.

Komonchak, Joseph A. "The Church as the Matrix of Faith: Review Article." Journal of Religion 61:188-96 (1981).

Lambino, Antonio B. "Inculturation in Asia: Going Beyond First Gear." Landas 1:72-80 (1987).

Loewe, William P. "Irenaeus' Soteriology: Transposing the Question." In Religion and Culture, as above, pp. 16779.

McCool, Gerald A. "History, Insight and Judgment in Thomism." International Philosophical Quarterly 27: 299-313 (1987).

McCool, Gerald A. "Neo-Thomism and the Tradition of St. Thomas." Thought 62:131-46 (1987).

McEvenue, Sean. "The Spirituality of the Bible." In Religion and Culture, as above, pp. 205-19.

Maddox, Randy L. Toward an Ecumenical Fundamental Theology. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1984.

Meures, Franz. "Un progetto interdisciplinare di antropologia Cristiana." La Civilta Cattolica 1:222-36 (1987).

A study of the work of L.M. Rulla which relies on Lonergan for a philosophy of the person (226).

Meyer, Ben A. "Critical Realism and Biblical Theology." Religious Studies and Theology 6:39-51 (1986).

Meynell, Hugo. "From Epistemology to Metaphysics." The Thomist 51:205-21 (1987).

Moore, Sebastian. "The Communication of a Dangerous Memory." In Religion and Culture, as above,