Disputing Quests

The context of this series, written between September 2016 and May 2017, is the second half of the central page 250 of Method in Theology, from line 18 to 33 (CWL 14, p. 235, lines 14 to 27), which I have named regularly Lonergan’s 1833 Overture. It describes a final tactic of the functional specialty Dialectic. It is a discomforting tactic, not just a Luther-like “Here I stand” but a blunt and precise “here you stand.” Such stand-taking and confrontation can, of course, occur at any stage in the cycle of collaborations, e.g., a historian “at pains not to conceal his tracks but to lay all his cards on the table.” Method in Theology, 193; CWL 14, 180.

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Disputing Quests 1: The Disputed Location of Disputing Quests

Disputing Quests 2: Projects of Fr. Bob Doran

Disputing Quests 3: If not Functional Collaboration, What?

Disputing Quests 4: Scripture Study: Turn Wright I

Disputing Quests 5: Scripture Study: Turn Wright II

Disputing Quests 6: Contemplation and the Other 1833 Overture

Disputing Quests 7: Self-Control in the New Testament and in the Economics of the Positive Anthropocene

Disputing Quests 8: Scripture Studies: Turn Wright III

Disputing Quests 9: Interpretation Wright Turn, Right Turn

Disputing Quests 10: Paul’s Epistles and Functional Systematics

Disputing Quests 11: The Ethics of Discernment

Disputing Quests 12: The Interior Lighthouse II

Disputing Quests 13: The Interior Lighthouse Zero

Disputing Quests 14: Doran Versus Wilkins

Disputing Quests 15: Is Lonerganism Fiddling while Home Burns?

Disputing Quests 16: Detailed Disputes: Doran

Disputing Quests 17: Moving to the Self-Control of Disputing Quests

Disputing Quests 18: Seeding the Future

Disputing Quests 19: The Metaphysics of Northern California

Disputing Quests 20: A Fresh Pedagogical Beginning on the Meaning of Interpretation