The Lonergan Research Institute – at Regis College

The December 2009 edition of the Lonergan Studies Newsletter is now available. Please click the link below.

Volume 30, No. 4, December 2009

Volume 11 of the Collected Works of Lonergan The Triune God: Doctrines has been released by the University of Toronto Press. Volume 11 complements the recently published Volume 12 The Triune God: Systematics. With the publication of these two volumes Bernard Lonergan's groundbreaking theological work on the Trinity is now available to the world in English translation. Congratulations to Translator Michael Shields and Editors Robert Doran and Danny Monsour.

The Bernard J. Lonergan Institute at Seaton Hall University announces the launch of its journal "The Lonergan Review." The first issue, Vol. 1, No. 1, Fall 2009, edited by Msgr. Richard Liddy, Director of the Center for Catholic Studies and the Bernard J. Lonergan Institute, brings together the proceedings of a seminar on Lonergan's thought held at the Universita del Sacro Cuore at Piacenza, Italy, 2008. The seminar's aim highlighted the general empirical method at the basis of various methods in the curriculum: mathematics, biology, art, history, education, philosophy, theology.

Boston College student Hiutung Chan has successfully defended a dissertation, 'Search of Transcendent Order in the Violent World: A Theological Meditation of Laozi’s Daode Jing and Augustine’s De Trinitate,' which was prepared under the supervision of Mark S. Heim.

‘My methodology ... makes heuristic use of Bernard Lonergan’s study of the fourfold operation of human consciousness as experience, understanding, judgment and decision. This general description of human consciousness is a useful framework to draw out similarities and differences in these texts.’