Developing the Lonergan Legacy: Historical, Theoretical, and Existential Issues

Comprising twenty papers, including six never before published, this long-awaited work spans the fifty-year career of noted theologian Frederick E. Crowe, a scholar who has devoted himself to studying, expounding, and making available the writings of Bernard Lonergan, the well-known Canadian Jesuit philosopher and theologian who died in 1984. The publication of these papers, compiled by Michael Vertin, is a tribute both to their subject and to their author.

Developing the Lonergan Legacy both recounts the history of Lonergan’s work in philosophy and theology, and offers significant theoretical and existential developments of that work. Divided into two sections – ‘studies,’ which examines the historical context of Lonergan and his writings, and ‘essays,’ which applies Lonergan’s work in different directions – the essays in this volume are motivated by Crowe’s deep concern for the concrete intellectual, moral, and religious welfare of his readers, of all those whom his readers might influence, and ultimately of the entire human community. Vertin’s meticulous editing and thoughtful sequencing only add to the uniquely spiritual character of Crowe’s works.

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Developing the Lonergan Legacy: Historical, Theoretical, and Existential Issues

Comprising twenty papers, including six never before published, this long-awaited work spans the fifty-year career of noted theologian Frederick E. Crowe, a scholar who has devoted himself to studying, expounding, and making available the writings of Bernard Lonergan, the well-known Canadian Jesuit philosopher and theologian who died in 1984. The publication of these papers, compiled by Michael Vertin, is a tribute both to their subject and to their author.

Developing the Lonergan Legacy both recounts the history of Lonergan’s work in philosophy and theology, and offers significant theoretical and existential developments of that work. Divided into two sections – ‘studies,’ which examines the historical context of Lonergan and his writings, and ‘essays,’ which applies Lonergan’s work in different directions – the essays in this volume are motivated by Crowe’s deep concern for the concrete intellectual, moral, and religious welfare of his readers, of all those whom his readers might influence, and ultimately of the entire human community. Vertin’s meticulous editing and thoughtful sequencing only add to the uniquely spiritual character of Crowe’s works.

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Developing the Lonergan Legacy: Historical, Theoretical, and Existential Issues

Developing the Lonergan Legacy: Historical, Theoretical, and Existential Issues

Developing the Lonergan Legacy: Historical, Theoretical, and Existential Issues

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Comprising twenty papers, including six never before published, this long-awaited work spans the fifty-year career of noted theologian Frederick E. Crowe, a scholar who has devoted himself to studying, expounding, and making available the writings of Bernard Lonergan, the well-known Canadian Jesuit philosopher and theologian who died in 1984. The publication of these papers, compiled by Michael Vertin, is a tribute both to their subject and to their author.

Developing the Lonergan Legacy both recounts the history of Lonergan’s work in philosophy and theology, and offers significant theoretical and existential developments of that work. Divided into two sections – ‘studies,’ which examines the historical context of Lonergan and his writings, and ‘essays,’ which applies Lonergan’s work in different directions – the essays in this volume are motivated by Crowe’s deep concern for the concrete intellectual, moral, and religious welfare of his readers, of all those whom his readers might influence, and ultimately of the entire human community. Vertin’s meticulous editing and thoughtful sequencing only add to the uniquely spiritual character of Crowe’s works.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781487511746
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Publication date: 02/24/2016
Series: Lonergan Studies
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 418
File size: 809 KB

About the Author

Frederick E. Crowe is a professor emeritus at the Toronto School of Theology, University of Toronto and co-founder of the Lonergan Research Institute.


Michael Vertin is a professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction

Author's Preface

Frequently Cited Works

Part One: Studies

1 Lonergan's Vocation as a Christian Thinker

2 From Kerygma to Inculturation: The Odyssey of Gospel Meaning

3 Insight: Genesis and Ongoing Context

4 The Spectrum of 'Communication' in Lonergan

5 'All my work has been introducing history into Catholic theology'

6 Lonergan's Universalist View of Religion

7 The Genus 'Lonergan and ...' and Feminism

8 Lonergan's Search for Foundations: The Early Years, 1940-1959

Part Two: Essays

9 School without Graduates: The Ignatian Spiritual Exercises

10 The Relevance of Newman to Contemporary Theology

11 Lonergan and How to Live Our Lives

12 The Ignatian Spiritual Exercises and Jesuit Spirituality

13 Linking the Splintered Disciplines: Ideas from Lonergan

14 Law and Insight

15 The Magisterium as Pupil: The Learning Teacher

16 'The Spirit and I'at Prayer

17 Why We Have to Die

18 Rhyme and Reason: On Lonergan's Foundations for Works of the Spirit

19 For Inserting a New Question (26A) in the Pars prima

20 The Future: Charting the Unknown with Lonergan

The Writings of Frederick E. Crowe

Index

What People are Saying About This

Jerome Miller

‘Virtually every page of Developing the Lonergan Legacy testifies to Frederick Crowe's masterful familiarity with the Lonergan corpus. One of the book's most important and individuating virtues is that it helps us appreciate the "arc" of Lonergan's thought – the long, complicated, and continual process of his intellectual evolution. Crowe's own graceful, discerning intelligence leads the reader to a deeper understanding of Lonergan's work and a richer appreciation of its explanatory power.’

Christine Jamieson

'Developing the Lonergan Legacy is an immensely valuable contribution to the understanding of Bernard Lonergan and the development of his key ideas. Frederick Crowe is an expert in this field and his scholarship is of exceptional quality. It is a real asset to have these essays together in one volume and to have previously unpublished work made available.'

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