The Lonergan Workshop journal, edited by Fred Lawrence, is the annual publication of papers presented at the previous year’s Lonergan Workshop. The Workshop journal is a rich resource for the important work taking place in ongoing conversations at the Boston College Lonergan Workshop each summer.
Online editions of back issues can be found here.
Below you will find Tables of Contents for each of the published Workshop journals.
Volume One
v — Editor’s Note
vii — Contributors To This Issue
ix — Table of Contents
1 — Dialectic and the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises | Frederick E. Crowe
27 — The Psychological Present to the Academic Community | Philip McShane
69 —Transcendental Dialectic of Desire and Fear | Joseph Flanagan
93 — The Theologian’s Psyche: Notes Toward a Reconstruction of Depth Psychology | Robert M. Doran
143 — On the Possibility and Desirability of a Christian Psychotherapy | Bernard Tyrrell
187 — Christian Self-Discovery | Sebastian Moore
223 — Political Theology and “The Longer Cycle of Decline” | Frederick Lawrence
257 — The Production Process and Exponential Growth: A Study in Socio-Economics and Theology | Matthew L. Lamb
309 — Religious Knowledge | Bernard Lonergan
Volume Two
v — Editor’s Note
vi — Contributors To This Issue
vii — Table of Contents
1 — History and Social Theory in Ecclesiology | Joseph A. Komonchak
55 — The Foundation of Heresy | Quentin Quesnell
83 — Theological Models: An Exercise in Dialectics | David W. Tracy
109 — Culture and Morality | Joseph Flanagan
147 — Dramatic Artistry in the Third Stage of Meaning | Robert M. Doran
201 — Christotherapy and the Healing/Transformation of the Communal Consciousness with Special Reference to the American Consciousness | Bernard J. Tyrrell
231 — “The Modern Philosophic Differentiation of Consciousness” or What is the Enlightenment? | Frederick Lawrence
281 — Methodology, Metascience, and Political Theology | Matthew L. Lamb
Volume Three
v — Editor’s Note
vii — Table of Contents
viii — List of Contributors
1 — An Exploration of Lonergan’s New Notion of Value | Frederick E. Crowe, S.J.
25 — “Persons as Originating Values”: A Primer (Reader) From Lonergan’s Thought on the Topic of Values | Cathleen Going
33 — The Self-Causing Subject: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Knowing | Joseph F. Flanagan, S.J.
53 — An Improbable Christian Vision and the Economic Rhythms of the Second Million Years | Philip McShane
83 — The Language of Love | Sebastian Moore
107 — Pastoral Theology: Can There Be an Institutional Format for Praxis? | Charles Mulligan
125 — “Dynamics of Christotherapy” and the Issue of a De Jure Psychotherapeutic Pluralism | Bernard J. Tyrrell, S.J.
149 — Philosophy of God, Theology, and the Problems of Evil | Michael Vertin
179 — A Post-Hegelian Philosophy of Religion | Bernard Lonergan
Volume Four
v — Editor’s Notes
viii — List of Contributors
1 — Dialectically-Opposed Phenomenologies of Knowing: A Pedagogical Elaboration of Basic Ideal-Types | Michael Vertin
27 — The Ethics of Jesus, Christ-Centered Ethics and Lonergan’s Method | Richard J. Cassidy
41 — Suffering Servant and the Scale of Values | Robert M. Doran, S.J.
69 — A Hope Embodied in Story: Flannery O’Connor’s Vision | Arthur L. Kennedy
85 — Original Sin, Sex, Resurrection and Trinity | Sebastian Moore
99 — The Primacy of Spiritual Experience in Theological Reflection | William Reiser, S.J.
115 — Theology and/or Religious Studies: Bernard Lonergan’s Option | Phillip Boo Riley
141 — Language, Prayer, and the Dynamics of Transformation | Nancy C. Ring
167 — Christian Imagination and Christian Prayer | Bernard J. Tyrrell, S.J.
Volume Five
iii — Editor’s Note
1 — Son and Spirit: Tension in the Divine Missions? | Frederick E. Crowe, S.J.
23 — Primary Process and the Spiritual Unconscious | Robert M. Doran, S.J.
49 — Faith, Charity, Hope | Tad Dunne, S.J.
71 — The Dialectics of Theory and Praxis within Paradigm Analysis | Matthew L. Lamb
115 — Intellectual Conversion and Science Education | William Matthews, SJ
145 — The New Life | Sebastian Moore, O.S.B.
163 — Lonergan and the Foundation of a Contemporary Mystical Theology | James Robertson Price III
197 — Whether Sacraments Liberate Communities: Some Reflections upon Image as an Agent in Achieving Freedom | Stephen Happel
219 — Redemption and Intellectual Conversion: Notes on Lonergan’s “Christology Today” | Charles C. Hefling, Jr.
263 — Basic Christian Community: An Issue of ‘Mind and the Mystery of Christ’ | Fred Lawrence
289 — The Fundamental Attitudes of the Liberally Educated Person: Foundational Dialectics | Emil Piscitelli
Volume Six
iii — Editor’s Notes
1 — The Fabric of Lonergan’s Thought | Patrick H. Byrne
185 — From Psychic Conversion to the Dialectic of Community | Robert M. Doran, S.J.
109 — Bernard Lonergan and James Joyce: Literature as De-Conversion | Toby Foshay
127 — Elements of Basic Communication | Frederick G. Lawrence
143 — Systematics, Communications, Actual Contexts | Philip McShane
175 — A Pseudo-Problem of Communication and Understanding | Hugo Meynell
195 — Reversing the Counter-Position: The Argumentum ad Hominem in Philosophic Dialogue | Mark D. Morelli
231 — The Promise of Narrative Theology: A Strategy of Communication | John Navone, S.J.
239 — Psychological Conversion, Methods of Healing, and Communication | Bernard Tyrrell, S.J.
Volume Seven
iii — Editor’s Note
1 — Mystery and Modern Mathematics | Patrick H. Byrne
35 — An Expansion of Lonergan’s Notion of Value | Frederick E. Crowe, S.J.
59 — Duality and Dialectic | Robert M. Doran, S.J.
85 — Preaching: A Mutual Self-Meditation of the Word of God, Preacher, and a Congregation | Peter Drilling
105 — The Meaning of God Incarnate according to Friedrich Schleiermacher; or, Whether Lonergan is Appropriately Regarded as ‘A Schleiermacher for Our Time,’ and Why Not | Charles C. Hefling, Jr.
179 — Hamlet and the Affective Roots of Decision | Glenn Hughes and Sebastian Moore
203 — Meaning, Mystery, and the History of Consciousness | Thomas J. McPartland
269 — History, Ethics, and Emergent Probability | Kenneth Melchin
295 — Pinning Down the Meaning | Quentin Quesnell
313 — The Crisis of the Human Good | Terry J. Tekippe
331 — Feelings as Apprehensive-Intentional Responses to Values | Bernard J. Tyrrell, S.J.
Volume Eight
iii — Editor’s Note
1 — Insight and the Retrieval of Nature | Patrick H. Byrne
61 — Insight: Genesis and Ongoing Context | Frederick E. Crowe, S.J.
85 — Insight: Chapters 1-5 | Joseph Flanagan, S.J.
109 — The Affirmation of Order: Therapy for Modernity in Bernard Lonergan’s Analysis of Judgment | Glenn Hughes and Sebastian Moore, O.S.B.
135 — Ethics in Insight | Kenneth R. Melchin
149 — How Right Plato Was | Hugo Meynell
165 — The Forming and Transforming of Ego: An Explanatory Psychology of Soteriology | Sebastian Moore, O.S.B.
191 — On First Reading Insight | Hamish Swanston
213 — Lonergan’s “Three Basic Questions” and a Philosophy of Philosophies | Michael Vertin
249 — Knowing, Objectivity, and Reality: Insight and Beyond | Michael Vertin
265 — What Kind of Proof is Insight 19? | Quentin Quesnell
Volume Nine
iii — Editorial Note
v — Errata
1 — Imaginal Theologies of History | Tad Dunne
25 — Spirit and Mission of the “Faithful Remnant”: A Study of Community in the Isaiah Scroll | Ann Johnston, R.S.C.J.
43 — Lonergan’s Apprenticeship 1904-46: The Education of Desire | William Matthews, S.J.
89 — Mission and Spirit: Questions of probability and Providence | Philip McShane
99 — Lonergan and Ricoeur: Emerging Complementary Philosophical Approaches for the Theological Views of Science | James R. Pambrun
145 — The Structure of Christian Prayer and its Integration with the Sciences | Eduardo Perez Valera, S.J.
195 — Intentionality Analysis, the Church, and Women’s Spirituality | Nancy Ring
209 — Grace, Mediation, and Liturgical Orientations | Louis Roy, O.P.
225 — Doing Theology in the Phillipine Context | Walter L. Ysaac, S.J.
Volume Ten
iii — Editorial Note
vii — Dedication
xi — Preface
1 — Teleology, Modern Science and Verification | Patrick H. Byrne
49 — “All my work has been introducing history into Catholic Theology” | Frederick E. Crowe
83 — Where the Late Lonergan Meets the Early Heidegger | Joseph Flanagan, S.J.
119 — Knowledge Makes a Noisy Entrance: The Struggle for Self-Appropriation in Law | Mary Ann Glendon
145 — The Drama of Living, and Lonergan’s Retrieval of Transcendence | Glenn Hughes
159 — Lonergan’s Early Essays on the Redemption of History | Joseph A. Komonchak
179 — Historicity and Eternity: Bernard Lonergan’s Transpositions and Differentiations | Matthew L. Lamb
229 — Lonergan’s Foundations for Constitutive Communication | Frederick Lawrence
279 — Spirituality and the Primacy of the Dramatic Pattern of Living | Sebastian Moore
297 — Coleridge, Newman and Lonergan: Conscience and Imagination in the Moral Argument of God’s Existence | Philip Rule, S.J.
319 — Bernard Lonergan and the Return of Ancient Practice | David W. Tracy
333 — Interview with Lonergan | Pierre Robert
Volume Eleven
iii — Dedication
vii — Editorial Note
1 — Image, Symbol, Cosmopolis: Art and the Critical Role of Culture | Glenn Hughes
21 — Still Life and Landscape: The Sacred in Secular Attire | Paul Kidder
35 — Painting as Spiritual: The Philosophical and Pedagogical Tasks | Paul Kidder
53 — What Bernard Lonergan Learned from Suzanne K. Langer | Richard Liddy
91 — In Water and in Blood | Sebastian Moore, O.S.B.
105 — Question and Imagination: Eric Voegelin’s Approach | John Ranieri
145 — Questions on the Fifth Level and the Processes of the Spiritual Subject | Pierre Robert
165 — Another Thing Needful: Reason , Feeling, and Imagination in 19th-Century Literature | Philip C. Rule, S.J.
179 — ‘Development’ and the Imagining Subject in Method | Hamish Swanston
213 — Complacentia boni and the Mission of the Church | Colleen Keene Webster
Volume Twelve
iii — Dedication
v — Editorial Note
1 — Metaphysics of Form, Matter, and Gender | Sr. Prudence Allen, R.S.M.
27 — Byway of the Cross: The Early Lonergan and Political Order | R. Michael Clark
45 — The Idea of the Descriptive Equality: Lonergan Explains Jefferson | John E. Coons/Patrick Brennan
77 — John Courtney Murray on Legitimate and Needed Social Plurality | Leon Hooper, S.J.
95 — Plurality, Love, Marriage: Debating Justice in the Family | Paulette Kidder
111 — Liberty, History, and the Common Good: An Exercise in Critical review | Michael McCarthy
147 — Critical and Symbolic Realism: Lonergan and Coleridge | Sebastian Moore, O.S.B.
179 — Affinities of Lonergan and Voegelin | Mark D. Morelli
199 — Voegelin, Religious Experience and Immortality | Michael P. Morrissey
227 — Universal Viewpoint and Universal Humanity: Attunement or Discord in the Philosophies of Voegelin and Lonergan | Brendan Purcell
Volume Thirteen
iii — Editorial Note
1 — Human Freedom | Dave Burrell, C.S.C.
7 — Medieval Jewish, Islamic, and Christian Perspectives on Love and Will | Dave Burrell, C.S.C.
13 — The Structure and Rhythms of Love in Today’s World | Dave Burrell, C.S.C.
17 — Complacency and Concern in the Risen Life | Frederick Crowe, S.J.
33 — Resting in Reality: Reflecting on Crowe’s ‘Complacency and Concern’ | Mark Doorley
57 — ‘Complacency and Concern’ and a Basic Thesis on Grace | Robert Doran, S.J.
79 — The Motion of Operative and Cooperative Grace: Retrievals and Explorations | Jean-Marc LaPorte
95 — Limits, the Illimitable, and the Disciplined Imagination: George Eliot’s Middlemarch | Robert Lewis
115 — Early Christianity and the Public Realm: Troeltsch’s Distinctions of Gospel, Kingdom, and World | Michael McCarthy
127 — Enlightenment: Old and New | Hugo Meynell
141 — The Doxology of Joy | Sebastian Moore, O.S.B.
161 — Reflections on the Appropriation of Moral Consciousness | Elizabeth Morelli
189 — Lonergan’s Metaphysics of Value and Love: Some Proposed Clarifications and Implications | Michael Vertin
Volume Fourteen
iii — Editorial Note
viii — Dedication
1 —The Contribution of the Nurse to the Human Good | Jean Belair
59 — Contexts and Horizons of Desire: Sebastian Moore’s Contributionto Fundamental Theology | Michael Paul Gallagher
73 — The Meditative Path: “The Monk and the Poet Are One” | Dorothy Judd Hall
99 — Grace, Christ, Redemption, Lonergan (In That Order) | Charles Hefling
115 — An Analogy for the Divine Self-Gift | Matthew Lamb
155 — Intersubjectivity, Groups, and Common Life | Kevin McGinley
173 — Where the Spirit of the Lord Is, There Is Freedom | Sebastian Moore
197 — Ressentiment and Redemption | Elizabeth Murray Morelli
229 — Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophy of Desire | Louis Roy
243 — Economic Analysis within Redemptive Praxis: An Achievementof Lonergan’s Third Decade | Michael Shute
265 — Theological Categories: The Transposition Needed forComparative Theology | Carla Mae Streeter
Volume Fifteen
iii — Editor’s Introduction
ix — Dedication
1 — Beyond Onto-Theology: Negative Theology and Faith | David B. Burrell, CSC
13 — Modern Architecture and Ignatian Vision | Paul Kidder
27 — Authority and Its Exercise | Joseph Komonchak
43 — Understanding the Author as Artist: Composing Insight | William Mathews, SJ
77 — Critical Christian Renewal | Michael McCarthy
99 — What Is Democracy, Anyway? A Discussion between Lonergan and Rawls | Kenneth Melchin
117 — Authentication of Common Sense from Above Upwards: Mediating Self-Correcting Folk Psychology | Mark Morelli
141 — Images and Witnesses | Francesca Murphy
173 — Reflections on the Future of Education in Light of Montessori and Lonergan | Phyllis Wallbank
Volume Sixteen
iii — Editor’s Introduction
viii — Photograph of William Alfred by Elsa Dorfman
1 — Is There a Constitutional Right To Privacy? | Michael Vertin
49 — The “Far Larger” Work of Insight’s Epilogue | Frank Braio
67 — Theology and Philosophy | David Burrell, CSC
83 — “ Et Judaeus Et Graecus E Methodo:” The Transcultural Mediation of Christian Meanings and Values in Lonergan | Ivo Coelho, SDB
107 — Snapshots of a Holy Man: Harvard Professor William Alfred | Dorothy Judd Hall
121 — Scholarship’s Impenetrable Wall | Sean McEvenue
139 — Foundations, the Subject of Psychology, and Science | Tom McGrath, SJ
153 — The Body Speaks and God Is a New Language | Sebastian Moore, OSB
173 — Method in the Arts and Sciences | William Murnion
199 — Kant’s Theory of Knowledge | Giovanni Sala, SJ
Volume Seventeen
1 – The Future: Charting the Unknown with Lonergan | Frederick E. Crowe
23 – Reflections on Method in Systematic Theology | Robert M. Doran
53 – From Analogy of ‘Being’ to the Analogy of Being | David Burrell, CSC
67 – The Conversions of Paul in Light of Lonergan’s Theory of Conversion | Richard J. Cassidy
85 – Bernard Lonergan: Educationist and Philosopher | Joseph Fitzpatrick
95 – About What Might a “Girard-Lonergan ‘Conversation’” Be? | Charles C. Hefling
125 – The Future of American Cities | Paul Kidder
143 – Authority, Autonomy, and Authenticity | Michael McCarthy
163 – What God has Joined and Man Has Put Asunder | Sebastian Moore
175 – From the Historicity of Consciousness to the Ontology of the Person | Giovanni Rota
197 – The Encyclical Letter of Pope John Paul II, Fides et Ratio: A Service to Truth | Giovanni Sala
Volume Eighteen
vi – “Leaping” | a poem by Dorothy Judd Hall
viii – “The Poet” | a poem by Patricia Benzmiller
1 – Kierkegaard and Lonergan on the Prospect of Cognitional-Existential Integration | Paul St. Amour
63 – The Sacred as Real: Eliade’s Ontology of the Sacred and Lonergan’s Philosophy of God | John Dadosky
87 – Over Thin Ice: Comments on ‘Gratia: Grace and Gratitude’ | Charles Hefling
121 – To Begin Anew: Reflections on Freedom, Destiny and Ethics in the Work of Bernard Lonergan and Julia Kristeva | Christine Jamieson
139 – Derrida and Lonergan on the Gift | Paulette Kidder
155 – Lonergan’s Critique of Aristotle’s Notion of Science | Michael Maxwell
189 – Historicity and Normative Order | Jerome Miller
203 – A Word for Sexual Desire | Sebastian Moore, OSB
225 – Theology, Philosophy, and Interiority: Experience Speaks to Experience | James Pambrun
Volume Nineteen
1 – The Postconciliar Jesuit Congregations: Social Commitment Constructing a New World of Religious Meaning | Peter Bisson, S.J.
37 – Reflections on Ignatian Soteriology: The Contributions of Ignacio Ellacuría | Kevin Burke, S.J.
51 – The Models of Avery Dulles and Some References to Lonergan | Richard Cassidy
61 – Francis Xavier, Lonergan, and the Problem of Missions Today | Ivo Coelho, S.D.B.
83 – Ignatian Themes in the Thought of Bernard Lonergan: Revisiting a Topic that Deserves Further Reflection | Robert M. Doran, S.J.
107 – Gerard Manley Hopkins and Lonergan’s Notion of Elemental Meaning | Glenn Hughes
137 – Thinking with Fr. Richardson | Paul Kidder
149 – Ignatian Discernment from Lonergan’s Perspective | Colin J. Maloney
197 – Collingwood and Lonergan on Historical Knowledge | Robert Miner
211 – Trivium Pursuit: Lonergan on Aquinas | Gilles Mongeau, S.J.
225 – Joyful Sorrow | Elizabeth Murray
235 – What Really Happened at Vatican II – A Response to O’Malley and Schloesser | Neil Ormerod
251 – Gratia Christi, The Heart of the Theology of Karl Rahner: Ignatian Influences in the Codex De Gratia Christi(1937/38) and its Importance for the Development of His Work | Roman Siebenrock
267 – The Finality of Human Spirit: From Maréchal to Lonergan | Michael Vertin
287 – The Transformation of Consciousness: Walter J. Ong and the Presence of the Word in the Making of Culture | João Vila-Chã
325 – Raymund Schwager, S.J.: Dramatic Theology | Nikolaus Wandinger
Volume Twenty
iii – Editor’s Introduction
1 – Consilience? Edward O. Wilson, Lonergan, and Other Proposals for the Unity/Differentiation of Knowledge | Philip Berryman
17 – Foundations of “The Ethics of Embryonic Stem Cell Research” | Pat Byrne
71 – Action Research as a Method of Praxis | David Coghlan, S.J.
87 – Edging (Toward) the Center | M. Shawn Copeland
93 – “Centering the Church”: A Development in Ecclesiology Based on Balthasar and Lonergan | John Dadosky
105 – Envisioning a Systematic Theology | Robert Doran, S.J.
127 – Another Perhaps Permanently Valid Achievement: Lonergan on Christ’s (Self-) Knowledge | Charles Hefling
165 – Lonergan and Post-Conciliar Ecclesiology | Joseph Komonchak
185 – Emerging Probabilities and the Operators of Musical Evolution | Greg Lauzon
197 – Theology as Praxis in Augustine’s Confessions: A Community Founded on the Humanity of Christ | Paul LaChance
223 – Startling Strangeness: A Memoir | Richard Liddy
253 – Toward a Catholic Christianity: A Personal Narrative | Michael McCarthy
271 – “At the still point” where “there is only the dance”: Logos, Lonergan, and T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets | Gregory Maillet
295 – “A Perhaps Not Numerous Center” | Hugo Meynell
305 – Theology, Philosophy, & Interiority: Experience Speaks to Experience | Mark Morelli
337 – Shankara and Aquinas: A Case Study in Comparative Ethics | William Murnion
357 – Robert Doran and Pastoral Theology: Reflections from Nairobi, Kenya | Gerard Whelan
391 – The Adolescent and the Use of the Philosopher Lonergan’s Questions | Phyllis Wallbank
Volume Twenty-One
iii – Editor’s Introduction
1 – Beyond MySpace: Grounding Postmodern Identity in Lonergan’s Interiority Analysis | Alison Benders
17 – General Congregation 35: The Jesuits and a Corporate Use of the Fifth (Religious) Level of Meaning: The Discovery of Love | Peter Bisson
33 – Autonomous Reason versus Tradition-directed Inquiry: Mulla Sadra, Lonergan, MacIntyre, and Taylor | David Burrell
43 – What is Our Scale of Value Preference? | Patrick H. Byrne
65 – Lonergan’s Economic Ideas Today: Functional Distinctions in Spending, The Pure Cycle of Innovative Growth, the Good of Order, and the Baseball Diamond | Eileen de Neeve
85 – Preserving Lonergan’s Understanding of Thomist Metaphysics: A Proposal and an Example | Robert M. Doran
103 – Lonergan’s Early Short Papers and Devotional Works | Philip Egan
125 – Robert Moses and the Common Good | Paul Kidder
145 – Upstream Medicine | Robert Luby
179 – Breathing Back: Lonergan, Literary Creativity, and the Spirit of the Lord | Gregory Maillet
193 – Faith and Lonergan | Colin Maloney
241 – The Idea of a University, Reductionism, and Lonergan on Emergence | William Mathews
263 – Conversion | Michael McCarthy
277 – The Second Moment of Intellectual Conversion | Elizabeth Murray
295 – Beyond Moral Suasion: Reading Method in Theology in “Racist America” | Jon Nilson
303 – Potency and Structure | David Oyler
313 – On the Validity of Extrinsic Causality in Proofs for the Existence of God | Paul St. Amour
349 – Leaving Self-Centeredness: Lonergan and Cognitive Science on Art | Cloe Taddei Ferretti
369 – Meeting Lonergan’s Challenge to Educators | Raymond Topley
383 – Implicit Theology, Authentic Subjectivity. and Karl Rahner’s “Anonymous Christian” | Nikolaus Wandinger