Books and Manuscripts
This archival section contains previously published books that are not readily available as well as manuscripts of unpublished books.
Two papers written for the International Lonergan Congress that was held at St. Leo University (35 miles north of Tampa, Florida) in April 1970. The papers were subsequently published in The Shaping of the Foundations: Being at Home in the Transcendental Method (University Press of America, 1976).
“Introduction: Work in Progress”
“Image and Emergence: Towards and Adequate Weltanschauung”
“Metamusic and Self-Meaning”
Published in 1980, this book is of the same character as the The Redress of Poise, but deals also with a different set of inquiries: mathematics, biology, and literary studies. It also gives a broad perspective on the problems of economic studies. The copy presented here has the added interest of being photocopied from Lonergan’s own copy (which is in the Lonergan Archives in Toronto) and having his marginal jottings.
Chapter 1: The Psychological Present of the Academic Community
Chapter 2: The Foundations of Mathematics
Chapter 3: Insight and the Strategy of Biology
Chapter 4: Modernity and the Transformation of Criticism
Chapter 5: Modernity and the Emergence of Adequate Empiricism
Chapter 6: An Improbable Christian Vision and the Economic Rhythms of the Second Million Years
Chapter 7: Lonergan’s Economics: Comparisons and Contrasts
Chapter 8: Lonergan and the Transformation of Life
Written in Oxford England and Halifax, Nova Scotia in the late 1980s . It is produced here from a printed copy used in teaching a course on Philosophy of Religion in Mt. St. Vincent University, Halifax. The lectures were televised in a twenty-hour series “Reason and Religious Beliefs.”
Foreword
Chapter 1: General Heuristiks
Chapter 2: Instrumental Acts of Meaning
Chapter 3: Procedural Analytiks
Chapter 4: Intentional Porocess
Chapter 5: Eternal Process
Chapter 6: Total Process
Afterword
Epilogue
This book contains a series of essays written between 1990 and 1996. It represents developments in foundational thinking in various areas of inquiry: economics, historical studies, ecology, concerns of justice, systematics, Christology.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Work in Redress: The Value of Lonergan’s Economics for Lonergan Students
Chapter 2: Ecological Justice and Intentional Process
Chapter 3: The Arctic Grail
Chapter 4: Turners, Strategists of Survival: The Legacy of Lonergan
Chapter 5: Systematics: A Language of the Heart
Chapter 6: In Tune with Timely Meaning
Chapter 7: Grace: The Final Frontier
ChrISt in History
Written in 2006, this book intimates a complex cultural transition in method in Christology. Linguistic feedback permeates efforts to appropriate Peter’s proclamation in Matthew 16:16.
Contents and Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Need for Functional Specialization: Christology and Paradigmatic
Chapter 2: The General Solution to Present Ineffective Fragmentation
Chapter 3: Dialectic
Chapter 4: Foundations
Chapter 5: Communications in General
Chapter 6: Functional Policy
Chapter 7: Systematics, Communications, Actual Contexts
Chapter 8: Research
Chapter 9: Interpretation
Chapter 10: Reinventing History
Method in Theology: Revisions and Implementations
This book was originally intended to be a primer on the movement in history towards functional collaboration. Parts Two and Three explore the role of systematic theologians within the dynamics of cyclic collaboration leading to progress.
Lonergan’s Standard Model of Effective Global Inquiry
A sequel to Method in Theology: Revisions and Implementations, this book explores logical, doctrinal, and existential incompleteness of an emerging methodology in philosophy and theology that is analogous to the standard model in contemporary advanced physics.
Contents/Foreword/Introduction
1. Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem
2. The Form of Inference
3. Geometric Possibilities
4. Mathematical Logic and Scholasticism
5. Insight and the General Character of Logic
6. The Economy of Phenomenology and Logic
7. Hodic Logic
8. Modal Logic
9. Terms and Relations
10. The Dialectic of Psychic Orientation
11. Foundational Biography
12. Theologies and the Dialectic of History
13. Mapping the Minding
14. Communications: An Outreach to Lonergan Students
Epilogue
A book-length issue of the Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis vol. 9, (2016) devoted to an extended reflection on functional research. The articles were written during the SGEME online seminar on functional collaboration in 2011.
“Preface: Functional Research”
“Functional Research: Introduction”
“Functional Research into Lonergan’s Collected Works”
“What Is Functional Research?: The Struggle So Far”
“A Contexting o First Attempts at Functional Research”
“Working Towards a Standard Model”
“The End of Lonerganism: Fuse or Refuse”
“Galactic Functional Research”
“What Is Functional Research?”
A book-length issue of Divyadaan: Journal of Philosophy and Education, vol. 30, no. 1 (2019).
“The Coming Convergence of World Responsiveness”
“Steps Towards Effectively Converging Religions”
“Converging Religions to Effective Historical Intervention”
“Converging Religions to Being InTo Love With Jesus EtC.”
“Finding an Effective Economist: A Central Theological Challenge”