Lonergan, Bernard Joseph Francis 1904-1984 creator text bibliography nyu New York] Herder and Herder [1972] 1972 monographic eng

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xii, 405 pages , 22 cm. The intellectual development of very few twentieth-century thinkers has been as consistent and as organic as that of Bernard Lonergan. All of his writings, from the very beginning of his career, have pointed towards this culminating work. Now, in this long-awaited and long-heralded work, Professor Lonergan sets forth as thesis a basic theological pattern from which all theological method can be derived. It is a pattern that includes not only the logic of the classical period, but also takes into account modern scientific interest in inquiry, observation, discovery, experiment, synthesis, and verification; and provides as well a context for multi-dimensional levels of meaning. The result, in the words of David Tracy, is not "some new Lonerganian system," but the ëxplication of the essentially open and heuristic structure which theology already is." Remarking on the present work, the author has described it as ëxtending earlier results in four manners. First, it works out a philosophically grounded account of the operation of exegetes and historians. Secondly, since the problem of value-judgments cannot be evaded by the theologian, it has to be met head on; accordingly, there is evolved a type of dialectic that will bring into the open value judgments along with their assumptions, their implications, and their associations. Such dialectic will offer in the moral order some rough equivalent for the role of the crucial experiement in natural science. Part One: Background -- Method -- A Preliminary Notion -- The Basic Pattern of Operations -- Transcendental Method -- The Human Good -- Skills -- Feelings -- The Notion of Value -- Beliefs -- The Structure of the Human Good -- Progress and Decline -- Meaning -- Intersubjectivity -- Intersubjective Meaning -- Art -- Symbols -- Linguistic Meaning -- Incarnate Meaning -- Elements of Meaning -- Functions of Meaning -- Realms of Meaning -- Stages of Meaning -- Religion -- The Question of God -- Self-Transcendence -- Religious Experience -- Expressions Experience -- Religious Development Dialectical -- The Word -- Faith -- Religious Belief -- A Technical Note -- Functional Specialties -- Three Types of Specialization -- An Eightfold Division -- Grounds of the Division -- The Need for Division -- A Dynamic Unity -- Conclusion -- Part Two: Foreground -- Research -- Interpretation -- Basic Exegetical Operations -- Understanding the Object -- Understanding the Words -- Understanding Oneself -- Judging the Correctness of one's Interpretation -- A Clarification -- Stating the Meaning of the Text -- History -- Nature and History -- Historical and Historical Knowledge -- Critical History -- History and Historians -- Three Handbooks -- Data and facts -- Three Historians -- Verstehen -- Perspectivism -- Horizons -- Heuristic Structures -- Science and Scholarship -- Dialectic -- Horizons -- Conversions and Breakdowns -- Dialectic: The Issue -- Dialectic: The Problem -- Dialectic: The Structure -- Dialectic as Method -- The Dialectic of Methods: Part One -- The Dialectic of Methods: Part Two -- The Dialectic of Methods: Part Tree -- A Supplementary Note -- Foundations -- Foundational Reality -- The Sufficiency of the Foundational Reality -- Pluralism in Expression -- Pluralism in Religious Language -- Categories -- General Theological Categories -- Special Theological Categories -- Use of the Categories -- Doctrines -- Varieties -- Functions -- Variations -- Differentiations of Consciousness -- The Ongoing Discovery of Mind: Part One -- Ongoing Contexts -- The Ongoing Discovery Mind: Part Two-- The Development of Doctrines -- The Permanence of Dogma -- The Historicity of Dogmas -- Pluralism and the Unity of Faith -- The Autonomy of Theology -- Systematics -- The Function of Systematics -- Closed Options -- Mystery and Problem -- Understanding and Truth -- Continuity, Development, Revision -- Communications -- Meaning and Ontology -- Common Meaning and Ontology -- The Christian and its Contemporary Situation -- The Church and the Churches Bernard J. F. Lonergan. Includes bibliographical references. Theology Methodology BR 118 .L65 200/.1/8 78181008 720717 20240422094356.0 39069 spa