Questions and Answers

A series of fifty-six questions and answers that were part of a campaign to identify zones of inquiry where the next generations can focus their thinking, publishing, and professional gathering. In particular, McShane invited questions regarding the character of functional talk, a difficult and novel differentiation of expression necessary for the maturing of the functional collaboration constitutive of a future Cosmopolis.

(Please note that in some of the replies to questions in this series there are hyperlinks to works hosted on an earlier version of this website. All of those essays are now available on this website and can be easily found using the search bar.)

Question 1: Larger Context

Questions 2, 3, 4: Relieving robotics, talk in biosemiotics, “to whom are you talking?”

Question 5: Lonergan Studies as Faulty Research and Communication

Question 6: The Nut in God’s Hands

Question 7: ‘X’ Deserves Passing On

Question 8: Functional Talk in Scripture Study

Question 9: Functional Interpretation

Question 10: Lonerganism

Question 11: How Might We Proceed?

Question 12: Functional Talk and Intellectual Conversion

Question 13: Moving Into Functional Collaboration

Questions 14, 15, 16: Transposing the Ignatian Exercises, Transforming Cultural Matrices, Towards a Theology of Subjectivity

Questions 17, 18, 19: “A Basis of Moving Forward,” A New Context for ‘Obediential Potency,’ The Future Ethos of Doing Theses

Question 20: Unlimited Contemplative Ingestion

Questions 21, 22, 23, 24: The Chemistry of the Searcher, Searching With a Nine-Year Old, Craving Effective Transpositions, Who Are You Three?

Question 25: Functional Collaboration With Hermeneutic Canons

Question 26: Functional Talk in Economics

Question 27: Approaching Doran’s Trinitarian Theology

Question 28: Teaching Genetic Interpretation

Question 29: Archetypes and Semicolons

Question 30: “The Trinity in History”

Question 31: Destructive Disorientations of Lonergan Institutions

Question 32: Restructuring Conferences Towards Effective Collaboration

Question 33: Making Functional Specialization a Topic

Question 34: Some Strategies for Advancing Towards Functional Specialization

Question 35: Revolutions in Lonergan-Studies Meetings

Question 36: An Appeal to Fred Lawrence and Other Elders

Question 37: Jerusalem 2013 and Lonergan’s 1833 Overture

Question 38: Comparing Jones and Smith

Question 39: Comparing Lonergan and Jones

Question 40: Self-luminous Comparing Work

Question 41: Promoting Cyclic Comparing Work

Question 42: The Shift to Science in Scripture Studies

Question 43: The Parting of the Ways in Lonergan Studies

Question 44: An Added Context for Method Chapter One

Question 45: Difficulties of Searching for Trinitarian Meaning

Question 46: Making Operative Fruitful Ideas

Question 47: Moving to Functional History

Question 48: Beyond Crowe’s Theology of the Christian Word

Question 49: Symbolizing Lonergan’s Achievement

Question 50: Towards Global Care

Question 51: You Make My Skin Caul

Question 52: Focus on Concrete Results

Question 53: McShane’s Low-Class Functional Research: What about You?

Question 54: The Cosmic Christ in Mathew Fox and Lonergan

Question 55: Functional History: The First Sentence

Question 56: Breaking Forward to Global Care