The Fragility of Consciousness: Faith, Reason, and the Human Good

Frederick G. Lawrence is the authoritative interpreter of the work of Bernard Lonergan and an incisive reader of twentieth-century continental philosophy and hermeneutics.

The Fragility of Consciousness is the first published collection of his essays and contains several of his best known writings as well as unpublished work. The essays in this volume exhibit a long interdisciplinary engagement with the relationship between faith and reason in the context of the crisis of culture that has marked twentieth- and twenty-first century thought and practice. Frederick G. Lawrence, with his profound and generous commitment to the intellectual life of the church, has produced a body of work that engages with Heidegger, Gadamer, Habermas, Ricoeur, Strauss, Voegelin, and Benedict XVI among others. These essays also explore various themes such as the role of religion in a secular age, political theology, economics, neo-Thomism, Christology, and much more. In an age marked by social, cultural, political, and ecclesial fragmentation, Lawrence models a more generous way – one that prioritizes friendship, conversation, and understanding above all else.

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The Fragility of Consciousness: Faith, Reason, and the Human Good

Frederick G. Lawrence is the authoritative interpreter of the work of Bernard Lonergan and an incisive reader of twentieth-century continental philosophy and hermeneutics.

The Fragility of Consciousness is the first published collection of his essays and contains several of his best known writings as well as unpublished work. The essays in this volume exhibit a long interdisciplinary engagement with the relationship between faith and reason in the context of the crisis of culture that has marked twentieth- and twenty-first century thought and practice. Frederick G. Lawrence, with his profound and generous commitment to the intellectual life of the church, has produced a body of work that engages with Heidegger, Gadamer, Habermas, Ricoeur, Strauss, Voegelin, and Benedict XVI among others. These essays also explore various themes such as the role of religion in a secular age, political theology, economics, neo-Thomism, Christology, and much more. In an age marked by social, cultural, political, and ecclesial fragmentation, Lawrence models a more generous way – one that prioritizes friendship, conversation, and understanding above all else.

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Frederick G. Lawrence is the authoritative interpreter of the work of Bernard Lonergan and an incisive reader of twentieth-century continental philosophy and hermeneutics.

The Fragility of Consciousness is the first published collection of his essays and contains several of his best known writings as well as unpublished work. The essays in this volume exhibit a long interdisciplinary engagement with the relationship between faith and reason in the context of the crisis of culture that has marked twentieth- and twenty-first century thought and practice. Frederick G. Lawrence, with his profound and generous commitment to the intellectual life of the church, has produced a body of work that engages with Heidegger, Gadamer, Habermas, Ricoeur, Strauss, Voegelin, and Benedict XVI among others. These essays also explore various themes such as the role of religion in a secular age, political theology, economics, neo-Thomism, Christology, and much more. In an age marked by social, cultural, political, and ecclesial fragmentation, Lawrence models a more generous way – one that prioritizes friendship, conversation, and understanding above all else.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781487512941
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Publication date: 01/23/2017
Series: Lonergan Studies
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 456
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Frederick G. Lawrence is an American hermeneutic philosopher and theologian, and a specialist in Bernard Lonergan, teaching in the Department of Theology at Boston College.

Randall S. Rosenberg is an assistant professor in the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University.

Kevin M. Vander Schel is an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Gonzaga University.

Table of Contents

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Foreword by Frederick G. Lawrence

Editor’s Introduction

Part One: The Hermeneutic Revolution and the Crisis of Culture

1. Martin Heidegger and the Hermeneutic Revolution

2. Hans-Georg Gadamer and the Hermeneutic Revolution

3. Gadamer and Lonergan on Augustine’s Verbum Cordis – the Heart of Postmodern Hermeneutics

4. A Jewish and a Christian Approach to the Problematic of Jerusalem and Athens: Leo Strauss and Bernard Lonergan

5. Voegelin and Gadamer: Continental Philosophers Inspired by Plato and Aristotle

6. Transcendence from Within: Benedict XVI and Jürgen Habermas on the Dialogue between Secular Reason and Religious Faith

Part Two: Theology and the Human Good

7. The Fragility of Consciousness: Lonergan and the Postmodern Concern for the Other

8. The Recovery of Theology in a Political Mode: The Example of Ernest L. Fortin, AA

9. The Economic Good of Order and Culture in Relation to Solidarity, Subsidiarity, and Responsibility

10. The Human Good and Christian Conversation

11. Grace and Friendship: Postmodern Political Theology and God as Conversation

12. Growing in Faith as the Eyes of Being-in-Love with God

The Writings of Frederick G. Lawrence

Index

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