Matters of Greater Moment

13/02/2010 - 09:12

Milltown Institute student Dalibor Renic, S.J. has successfully defended a dissertation entitled "Ethical Elements in Epistemic Normativity: Lonergan and Virtue Epistemolog," which was prepared under the supervision of James G. Murphy, S.J.

14/01/2010 - 17:03

The Awards Committee for the Frederick E. Crowe Bursary announces that the Bursary for 2009 has been awarded to Dr. Edoardo Cibelli, a "younger Lonergan scholar" at the Pontifical Faculty of Theology of South Italy, based in Naples, Italy. The award is to help defray expenses associated with a one-day conference on the theme "The Centrality of the Subject for the Lonerganian Foundation of a Method in Theology," an event that Dr. Cibelli is planning for Thursday, 2 December 2010, in Naples.

17/12/2009 - 03:45

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

Volume 30, No. 4, December 2009

01/11/2009 - 16:54

On Friday October 16th, two hundred friends of the Lonergan Research Institute gathered to hear Professor David Burrell of Unganda Martyrs University present the Eight Annual Lonergan Lecture entitled "God in the World: Comparing Muslim and Christian Theologies." The lecture was well received and a lively discussion followed. A podcast of the lecture in mp3 format is available here.

17/10/2009 - 07:36

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.

17/10/2009 - 07:32

Australian Catholic University student Patrick J. McInerney has successfully defended a dissertation entitled "A Lonergan Approach to Christian Responsibility in Interreligious Relations," which was prepared under the supervision of Anthony Kelly and Gerard Hall.

12/10/2009 - 09:26

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.

05/10/2009 - 05:31

Australian Catholic University student John David Little has successfully defended a dissertation entitled "Lonergan’s Intentionality Analysis and the Foundations of Organization and Governance: A Response to Ghoshal," which was prepared under the supervision of Anthony Kelly.

01/10/2009 - 03:50

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.’

25/07/2009 - 02:31

Boston College student Mark T. Miller has successfully defended his dissertation, 'Why the Passion?: Bernard Lonergan on the Cross as Communication,' which was prepared under the supervision of Frederick Lawrence.

‘This dissertation aims at understanding Bernard Lonergan’s understanding of how the passion of Jesus Christ is salvific. ... Through the self-gift of divine, unrestricted Love and the Incarnate Word, God works with human sensitivity, imagination, intelligence, affect, freedom, and community to produce religious, moral, and intellectual conversion, and to form the

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