Method in Theology at http://www.utppublishing.com/Method-in-Theology-Volume-14.html

At libraries
Search Ebrary and Ebscohost via your library. A library subscribing to Ebrary may have access to all the current published Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan.

Lonergan websites
Lonergan archives: www.bernardlonergan.com – unpublished papers, audios and videos by Lonergan

Lonergan resources: www.lonerganresource.com – secondary source material including back copies of two journals: Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies and Lonergan Workshop

Lonergan forum: www.lonerganforum.com

Australian Lonergan website: www.lonergan.org.au

Phil McShane’s website: www.philipmcshane.ca

The Society for the Glocalization of Effective Methods of Evolving (SGEME): www.sgeme.org

Lonergan journals
Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis: http://journals.library.mun.ca/ojs/index.php/jmda/index – a free online journal. Click on Archives for previous issues

The Lonergan Review: http://www.shu.edu/catholic-mission/lonergan/lonergan-review.cfm – a subscription journal from http://secure.pdcnet.org/lonerganreview

Divyadaan: Journal of Philosophy and Education: http://divyadaan.in/journal.html – some articles by Lonergan scholars and available free for download.

Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies: http://bclonergan.org/publications/method-journal-of-lonergan-studies/ - subscription journal

Lonergan Workshop Journal: http://bclonergan.org/publications/lonergan-workshop-journal/ – subscription journal

Forthcoming Conferences (June 2013 – July 2014)
Journey of Transformation: Perspectives from Bernard Lonergan Conference, June 29th, 2013, Catholic Chaplaincy, Oxford, England. Registration is free. Co-sponsored by the Bernard J. Lonergan Institute at Seton Hall and the Maryvale Institute, Birmingham, UK. More information at: http://bclonergan.org/2013/04/journey-of-transformation-perspectives-from-bernard-lonergan-conference-at-seton-hall/

The Second Latin American Lonergan Workshop, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, June 13-14, 2013. Theme: “The Human Good”. More information at: http://bclonergan.org/2013/03/the-second-latin-american-lonergan-workshop/

4th International Lonergan Workshop, Ratisbonne House, Jerusalem, August 21 – 28, 2013. Hosted by Ivo Coelho, SDB. More information at: http://bclonergan.org/2013/02/announcing-the-4th-international-lonergan-workshop/

The 40th Annual Lonergan Workshop, The Hermeneutics of Reform & Renewal: 50th Anniversary of Vatican II, June 16 – 22, 2013, Boston College. More information at: http://bclonergan.org/2013/02/1033/

6th International Lonergan Conference, Functional Collaboration in the Academy: Advancing Bernard Lonergan’s Central Achievement, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, July 21-25, 2014.

Our biennial Australian Lonergan Workshop will be held over the weekend of May 24th-26th 2013. It will begin in the evening of Friday 24th May and run through to mid-afternoon (about 3pm) of Sunday 26th May

The Workshop will be held in Melbourne at the Thomas Carr Centre, 278 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne

In keeping with our tradition, the Workshop will encourage active participation.

The program for the Workshop can be found at: http://alw2013.alwcommittee.fastmail.com.au/

For more information contact us at: alwcommittee@fastmail.com.au

Bernard Lonergan … vida, obra, reception, Chile  fostering communication and collaboration among Lonergan scholars in the South American context

Bernard J. Lonergan Institute, Seton Hall University,  USA South Orange, NJ serving as a Lonergan research center, with substantial amounts of primary and secondary Lonergan materials available; sponsoring periodic lectures, programs, and conferences (e.g., Lonergan and Economics) centered on Lonergan’s work; organizing faculty and student reading groups

Washington Institute, (The Lonergan Institute for the “Good under Construction”) USA Washington, DC  helping people learn theology; using Lonergan to address current social and cultural issues; studying educational strategies from kindergarten through graduate school.  Has forums on Insight, Newman, Voegelin,  and Trinity

Creating And Healing In The Making Of History Worth Inheriting

April 29 – May 1 2011

Melbourne

 

There will be three types or modes of gathering:

Seminars

Morning sessions Saturday & Sunday, about 1.5 hours each endeavour to discuss a short Lonergan “piece” chosen because it relates to general theme and is a good “introduction” to Lonergan as a seminal thinker

Discussion will be “primed” by panel members; hopefully general discussion will “flow”.

Presentations/ papers

Opportunity to learn about current interests across the “field”

Traditional 20 minutes paper/presentation + ten minutes for question

Workshops

Each about 1.5 hours—run concurrently on Saturday discuss a particular issue for which Lonergan’s analysis seems relevant

For details click here

AUSTRALIAN LONERGAN WORKSHOP

April 24th – 26th 2009

History challenges us to live at the level of our times; hope enables us to face that challenge by taking a stand—robust enough to resist the inconsistencies and injustices of human institutions, forgiving enough to promote the intelligence, reasonableness, and freedom of the graced human spirit.

Lonergan’s achievement was to retrieve interiority as grounds for the far larger work of implementing a critical methodology of authentic collaboration in meeting history’s challenges.  Today’s crises highlight the necessity and urgency of handing on his legacy to future generations

The 2009 Workshop aims to identify ways in which Lonergan’s methodology can be utilized in meeting some of the current crises in our world as well as ways in which his achievement can be handed on to future generations—particularly as current crises demand long term solutions.

PROGRAM

Friday 24th April 10.00am – 5.00pm

Day 1: Theme: Critical thinking: The Dynamics of Knowing

10.00 – Registration – tea & coffee available

10.30 – Welcome

11.00 – Mind and its Minder: John Little

Morning tea break at approximately 11.30am

1.00 – Lunch

1.45 – Panel response: Discovering Generalised Empirical Method in my work/discipline
Panel Members will include: Stephen Ames, Tom Daly, Con O’Donovan

Afternoon tea break at approximately 3.15

3.30 – Open discussion

5.00 – Close Day 1 – Wine and cheese

Saturday 25th April: 9.30am – 5.00pm

Day 2: Theme: Decision making: The Dynamics of Doing

Note: Eucharist will be held on Saturday morning at 8.15 followed by breakfast at 8.45

9.30 – Review of Day 1

10.00 – Decision Making: Structure of Human Good: Tom Halloran

Morning tea break at approximately 11.30am

12.00 – Panel response: Evaluating the current world context
Panel members will include: Jack Flanagan, Patrick J. McInerney, Paul Oslington, Kathleen Williams

1.00 – Lunch

1.45 – Open Discussion

Afternoon tea break at approximately 3.15pm

4.00 – The Law of the Cross: Robin Koning, SJ

5.00 – Close Day 2 – Wine and cheese

7.00 – Workshop Dinner

Sunday 26th April: 9.30am – 3.30pm

Day 3: Theme: Authentic living in Community: The Dynamics of Collaborating

Note: Eucharist will be held on Sunday morning at 8.15 followed by breakfast at 8.45

9.30 – Review of Day 1 and Day 2

10.00 – Global Functional Collaboration (Functional Specialisation): Sean McNelis

Morning tea break at approximately 11.00am

11.30 – Panel response: Implementing Global Functional Collaboration
Panel Members will include: John Boyd-Turner, John Collins, Tom Halloran

12.30 – Lunch

1.15 – The Trinity: Peter Beer, SJ

2.00 – Open discussion and review of workshop

3.00 – Workshop concludes

Afternoon tea

Venue

Thomas Carr Centre,
278 Victoria Parade,
East Melbourne

Fr. Bernard Lonergan, S.J. was a philosopher-theologian, an economist, with an abiding interest in methodology. He taught at Loyola College (Montreal) (now part of Concordia University), Regis College (Toronto), the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome), Harvard University, and Boston College. He best known as the author of Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1957) and Method in Theology (1972).

Lonergan’s Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1957) invites the reader to take self-possession of herself or himself as a subject, spontaneously conscious of experiencing, understanding, and judging, with regard to objects, as they occur in the fields of mathematics, empirical science and common sense. 

So it comes about that the extroverted subject visualizing extension and experiencing duration gives place to the subject orientated to the objective of the unrestricted desire to know and affirming beings differentiated by certain conjugate potencies, forms, and acts grounding certain laws and frequencies. It is this shift that gives rise to the antithesis of positions and counter positions. It is through its acknowledgment of the fact of this shift that a philosophy or metaphysics is critical. It is only by a rigorous confinement of the metaphysician to the intellectual pattern of experience, and of metaphysical objects to the universe of being as explained that this basic enterprise of human intelligence can free itself from the morass of pseudo problems that otherwise beset it. (Insight 537)

This “coming about” or the fullness of “intellectual conversion” constitutes a new horizon and one has not come about yet “if one has no clear memory of its startling strangeness” (Insight, xxiii) Lonergan’s achievement, as accessible and made thematic in Insight, enables the reader to grasp interiority as grounds for the far larger work of implementing a critical methodology of authentic collaboration in meeting history’s challenges.  The “X” to be implemented is given the name cosmopolis.

What is necessary is a cosmopolis that is neither class nor state, that stands above all their claims, that cuts them down to size, that is founded on the native detachment and disinterestedness of every intelligence, that commands man’s first allegiance, that is too universal to be bribed, too impalpable to be forced, too effective to be ignored.(Insight,  263)

In Insight, Lonergan also discusses some of the aspects and properties of cosmpolis, describing “what” might (or ought) be done.   Method in Theology (1972) provides the “how” of implementing cosmopolis.  It identifies eight functional specialities which, as Karl Rahner said in regard to the publication in 1969  of Lonergan”s 1965 “discovery” of functional specialisation, “Lonergan’s theological methodology seems to me to be so generic that it actually suits every science.”

Biography

Bernard Joseph Francis Lonergan (17 December 1904 – 26 November 1984)

Bernard J.F. Lonergan was born on 17 December 1904 in Buckingham, Quebec, Canada. In 1922, after four years at Loyola College, Montreal, he entered the Society of Jesus in Guelph, Ontario.

From 1926 to 1930 he studied philosophy, languages, and mathematics at Heythrop College and the University of London, England.

He was ordained a Roman Catholic Priest in 1933.  His four years of theological studies as required by the Jesuits were done at the Gregorian University, Rome, from 1933 to 1937. He added two  years of doctoral studies in theology and obtained his S.T.D. from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1940—the awarding postponed due to World War II—for a dissertation, advised by Charles Boyer, S.J., and later published as Grace and Freedom: Operative Grace in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas.

He began teaching theology at Collège de l’Immaculée Conception in Montreal in 1940. He taught at the Jesuit Seminary in Toronto from 1947 to 1953, and then at the Gregorian University from 1953 to 1965. His first great book—rounded off in preparation for departure to Rome, Insight: A Study of Human Understanding, was published in 1957.

From 1965 to 1975 he was Professor of Theology at Regis College, Toronto, and in 1972 published the long-awaited Method in Theology. He was the Stillman Professor at Harvard University in 1971-1972, and in 1975 became Distinguished Visiting Professor of Theology at Boston College.

In later life while teaching at Boston College, Lonergan returned his attention to the economic interests of his younger days. The University of Toronto Press has published his two works on economics: For a New Political Economy and Macroeconomic Dynamics: An Essay in Circulation Analysis.
He returned to Canada in late 1983 and died at the Jesuit Infirmary, Pickering, on 26 November 1984.
In the course of his long and illustrious academic career, he received 19 honorary doctorates and a number of other honours, including being invested as Companion of the Order of Canada in 1971 and being named Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 1975. He was named by Pope Paul VI one of the original members of the International Theological Commission.

Published works

He is the author of Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1957) and Method in Theology (1972).  While these are the two best known of his works, his literary output extends far beyond these works. University of Toronto Press is currently in the process of publishing the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan,. The series will consist of twenty-five volumes. Of these, 14 have been published to date.  The published volumes, all of which will also be made available in digital form in the near future, are:

1. Grace and Freedom: Operative Grace in the Thought of St Thomas Aquinas, (2000)
2. Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas, (1997)
3. Insight: A Study of Human Understanding, (1992)
4. Collection, (1988)
5. Understanding and Being,(1990)
6. Philosophical and Theological Papers 1958-1964, (1996)
7. The Ontological and Psychological Constitution of Christ, Latin/English (2002)
10. Topics in Education, (1993)
12. The Triune God: Systematics, Latin/English (2007)
15. Macroeconomic Dynamics: An Essay in Circulation Analysis, (1999)
17. Philosophical and Theological Papers 1965-1980, (2004)
18. Phenomenology and Logic, (2001)
20. Shorter Papers, (2007)
21. For a New Political Economy, (1998)

Yet to be published are the following works:

8. The Incarnate Word
9. The Redemption
11. The Triune God: Doctrines Latin/English (expected in 2008)
13. A Second Collection
14. Method in Theology
15. A Third Collection
19. Early Latin Theology (expected in 2009)
22. Early Works on Theological Method I (expected in 2009)
23. Early Works on Theological Method II
24. Archival Material
25. General Index

The workshop complements the intentions of the Lonergan Centre of Sydney which includes the “Lonergan Library”. This small specialized collection holds all Lonergan’s published works, a number of his unpublished writings and a number of secondary sources on Lonergan, or used by Lonergan in his own work.