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2009 Australian Lonergan Workshop

Tom Halloran — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:24:48 +0000

Hope and History:
Implementing the Lonergan Legacy

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

Workshops 1985 – 2013

Tom Halloran — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:17:44 +0000

The objective of the Lonergan workshops is to promote Lonergan Studies. The workshops are designed for people who have found or suspect Lonergan’s work to be helpful within the horizon of their interests. The workshops provide an opportunity to meet, discuss, and encourage each other in furthering their grasp of Lonergan’s achievement and collaborate in strategies for handing on this legacy. The inaugural workshop was held in 1985 at St. Ignatius College, Riverview in Sydney. Since then workshops addressing a number of different themes have been held regularly—every two years—in Sydney or Melbourne and we have been graced with some searching and insightful papers. With less regularity, from time to time, a selection of the workshop papers has been published.

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.

2011 Australian Lonergan Workshop

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:37:32 +0000

2011 Australian Lonergan Workshop
Creating And Healing In The Making Of History Worth Inheriting
April 29 – May 1 2011
Thomas Carr Centre,
278 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne

*As the labor of introspection proceeds, one stumbles upon Hegel’s insight that the full objectification of the human spirit is the history of the human race. It is in the sum of the products* of *common sense and common nonsense, of the sciences and the philosophies,* of moralities and religions, of social orders and cultural achievements, that there is mediated, set before us the mirror in which we can behold, the originating principle of human aspiration and human attainment and failure. Bernard Lonergan
Friday April 29^th Free event open to the public
6:00	Reception and drinks
6:30	Brendan Purcell From Big Bang to Big Mystery: Human Origins in the Light of Creation and Evolution “Because of his astonishingly wide-ranging knowledge and deep sympathies for persons suffering in the “modern cultural grotesque,” Dublin philosopher Brendan Purcell has been pursuing a hermeneutics of universal humanity. Schooled early on in Lonergan’s philosophy and theology, and later versed in Voegelin’s massive philosophy of order, Brendan shows the remarkable complementarity in the concerns and orientations of both these seminal thinkers when it comes to confronting the crisis of our time.” Fred Lawrence, Boston College
Keynote address
Workshop registration will follow the address
Saturday April 30th
8:30	Registration
9:00–9.15	Welcome
9:15–11:00	Seminar discussion: *Natural Right and Historical Mindedness*, Initiated by a panel and then open to all in attendance. The article will be made available to registrants prior to the workshop
11:00–11.30	Coffee Break
11:30–12:30	Presentations:
	*Lonergan on the ‘Subject’ – some questions, Stephen Ames Lonergan’s Mission of the Spirit*, Peter Beer SJ

12:30–1:30	Lunch
1: 30–3:00	Workshops (conducted simultaneously):
	*Functional Specialisation, led by Sean McNelis Lonergan and Girard, led by Tony McSweeney Lonergan in, on and into Education*, led by Conn O’Donovan


3:00–3.30	Afternoon Tea
3:30–5:00	Presentations:
	*The Quest for Rest: A Lonerganian Contribution to a Balthasarian Question, Meredith Secomb Foundations, Trust and the Human Good in Business*, John Little

	Dinner (time and place to be advised)
Sunday May 1^st
8:00	Eucharistic Liturgy
8:45–9.15	Continental Breakfast
9:15–11:00	Seminar discussion: *Theology In Its New Context* Initiated by a panel and then open to all in attendance. The article will be made available to registrants prior to the workshop
11:00–11.30	Coffee Break
11:30–12:30	Presentations:
	*Meaning in History, Peter Madden Method in Theology Revisited*, Jim McKinnon

12:30–1:30	Lunch
1:30–2:30	*Comments and Concerns*: Small group discussion on workshop
2:45–3:30	*Commitments and Collaboration*: Plenary Session—where to from here?
3:30	Close and Afternoon Tea

To register for the Workshop, click here