Complete Bibliography of Lonergan Studies

Dissertations & Theses

An implementation of Method in Theology, an interdisciplinary study in sociology and theology proposing an explanatory account of Christian union in Christ. Order no. GAX79-20469.

Piscitelli, Emil J. Language and Method in the Philosophy of Religion: A Critical Study of the Development of the Philosophy of Bernard Lonergan. Georgetown University, 1977. Order no. GAX77-26395

Poissant, Leeward J. An Analysis and Evaluation of Bernard Lonergan's Proposed Method for Verification in Metaphysics. University of Toronto, 1977. Moderator was Professor C. W. Webb, with Fred Crowe on examination board, and David Tracy as outside reader.

Lonergan Studies Newsletter 2/2 June 1981

Publications

"A Framework and a program for Renewing Communication and Understanding between Priests, Bishops, Theologians and the People in the Pews."

Conn, Walter E. "The Subject in Theological Language and Method: An Essay on the Thought of Dallas High and Bernard Lonergan." Divus Thomas 83,105-29 (1980).

Daly, Gabriel. "History, Truth and Method." The Irish Theological Quarterly 47:43-55 (1980).

Review article on P. Gisel, Vérité et histoire... and on M. Lamb, History, Method, and Theology... (see Newsletter 1/1).

Finnis, John. Natural Law and Natural Rights. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980.

Gerhart, Mary. "The 'New' Literature and Contemporary Religious Consciousness." Anglican Theological Review 62:42-63 (1980).

Happel, Stephen. "The Social Context-of Personal Prayer in Seminaries." Review for Religious 39:846-54 (1980).

O'Leary, Joseph S. "The Hermeneutics of Dogmatism." Irish Theological Quarterly 47:96-118 (1980).

Review article on Lonergan's The Way to Nicea.

Piscitelli, Emil J. "Paul Ricoeur's Philosophy of Religious Symbol: A Critique and Dialectical Transposition” Ultimate Reality and Meaning 3:275-312 (1980).

Roach, Richard R. "Nature and Praxis." Communio 5:252-74 (1978).

Asks whether Lonergan faced squarely the question of human nature.

Rurak, James. "Butler's Analogy: A Still Interesting Synthesis of Reason and Revelation." Anglican Theological Review 62:365-81 (1980).

Schuchman, Paul. Aristotle and the Problem of Moral Discernment. Frankfurt: Lang, 1980.

Originally a dissertation at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, New York, 1977; see pp. 9-10 on relation of the work to Lonergan and Gadamer; and pp. 113-47 (Appendix I) on "Aristotle's Phronesis and Transcendental Thinking : The View of Bernard Lonergan."

Winquist, Charles E. "The Subversion and Transcendence of the Subject." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 48:45- 60 (1980)

Reviews

This book contains the three papers given by the author at the 1979 St. Michael's Lectures at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. The papers form a definite unity, attempting in three stages to grasp anew the pattern of Lonergan's lifework as a whole and to sketch the enterprise to which Lonergan has given momentum. Chapter One, "Lonergan's Work as Organon for Our Time," sets forth the notion of "organon" as an instrument of mind and discusses the notion in reference to Aristotle's logical instrument and Bacon's inductive/experimental instrument. The notion is then applied to Lonergan's concern for creating a fundamental method (in the sense of organon/instrument), capable of restructuring in a dynamic unity the whole of human knowing, doing and loving.

Inasmuch as this restructuring is a challenge to be realized rather than a given achievement, Crowe turns in Chapter Two to our need for "Mastering the Instrument," making it our own. He suggests that this will best be done by applying Lonergan's eight functional specialties to a study of Lonergan's lifework, and he goes on to point out concrete concerns in the present state of research, interpretation, history and dialectic in Lonergan studies. A pivotal discussion of personal appropriation of the method forms the bridge to Chapter Three, "Programming the Next Agenda," that sets forth proposals for putting the instrument to work in constructing the present and future course of human science, philosophy and theology, and that outlines the scope of renewal demanded by Lonergan's organon. Crowe's book is a much-needed and highly useful "state of the union" address, admirably and professionally introduced by Charles Hefling, Jr.

Dissertations & Theses

Raymaker, John A. Theory-Praxis of Social Ethics: The Complementarity Between Bernard Lonergan's and Gibson Winter's Theological Foundations. Marquette University, 1977.Order no. GAX78-01930.

Rivello, Sr. Joseph R. An Adaptation. of Bernard J. F.Lonergan's Heuristic Structures A Response to Institutional Moral Scotosis. Temple University 1974 . Order no . GAX74-28189

Santo,Ronald L. di. Complete Intelligibility: A Study of Bernard Lonergan's Argument for the Existence of God. McMaster University,1976. Supervisors were John C. Robertson, Jr. and Cathleen M. Going.

The first part is exposition and interpretation of Lonergan's argument in chapter 19 of Insight. The second and lengthiest part is a dialectical scrutiny of the argument, written in the form of a dialogue between "prosecution" and "defense." The third part is a personal assessment of the argument's soundness.

Schultz, James C. From Insight to Metaphysics: The Metaphysics of Bernard J. F. Lonergan's "Insight." University of Notre Dame, 1972. Order no. GAX72-26821.

Skrenes, Billie C. Love and the Ways of Knowing: Reflections on Bernard Lonergan's Theory of Knowing and its Contribution to Theology's Philosophical Foundations, Based in Part on Comparisons with Bultmann, Piaget, Langer, and Gadamer. Claremont Graduate School, 1979. Order no. GAX79-22036. DAI: 40/1979-80, 2127-A to 2128-A.