CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Bernard Lonergan: A Biographical Sketch

Lonergan's Place in Culture

The Selections

PART ONE: Insight: A Study of Human Understanding: Selections

I: Introduction to Insight

1 The Original Preface

2 Preface

3 Introduction

II: The Act of Insight

1 A Dramatic Instance

2 Definition

3 Higher Viewpoints

4 Inverse Insight

5 The Empirical Residue

6 Mathematical and Scientific Insights Compared

III: The Complementarity of Classical and Statistical Investigations

1 Classical Heuristic Structures

2 Statistical Heuristic Structures

3 The Complementarity of Classical and Statistical Investigations

4 Complementarity in the Known

IV: Common Sense and Its Subject

1 Common Sense as Intellectual

2 The Subjective Field of Common Sense

V: Common Sense as Object

1 The Dynamic Structure

2 The Dialectic of Community

3 Individual Bias

4 Group Bias

5 General Bias and the Longer Cycle of Decline

VI: Things and Bodies

1 The General Notion of the Thing

2 Bodies

3 Summary

VII: Judgment

1 The Notion of Judgment

2 The General Form of Reflective Insight

3 Concrete Judgments of Fact

4 Insights into Concrete Situations

VIII: Self-Affirmation of the Knower

1 The Notion of Consciousness

2 Empirical, Intelligent, and Rational Consciousness

3 The Unity of Consciousness

4 The Unity as Given

5 Self-Affirmation

6 Self-Affirmation as Immanent Law

7 Description and Explanation

8 The Impossibility of Revision

IX: The Notion of Being

1 A Definition

2 An Unrestricted Notion

3 A Spontaneous Notion

4 An All-Pervasive Notion

5 The Core of Meaning

X: The Notion of Objectivity

1 The Principal Notion

2 Absolute Objectivity

3 Normative Objectivity

4 Experiential Objectivity

5 Characteristics of the Notion

XI: Method in Metaphysics

1 The Underlying Problem

2 A Definition of Metaphysics

3 Method in Metaphysics

4 Universal Doubt

5 Empiricism

XII: Development

1 Finality

2 The Notion of Development

3 Genetic Method

4 Human Development and Genuineness

XIII: Truth and Interpretation

1 The Criterion of Truth

2 The Appropriation of Truth

3 The Notion of a Universal Viewpoint

XIV: The Problem of Liberation

1 The Decision

2 The Problem of Liberation

XV: Knowledge of God

1 The Immanent Source of Transcendence

2 The Affirmation of God

3 Conclusion

XVI: The Problem of Evil and Its Solution

1 The Problem

2 The Existence of a Solution

3 The Heuristic Structure of the Solution

4 Belief

XVII: Self-Appropriation

1 Self-Appropriation

2 The Value of Self-Appropriation

PART TWO: From Insight to Method in Theology

I: A Definition of Art

1 Pattern

2 Experiential

3 Pure Pattern

4 Purely Experiential

5 Release

6 Elemental Meaning

7 Objectification

8 Symbolic Meaning

9 Ulterior Significance

10 Conclusion

II: Openness and Religious Experience

1 Philosophy of Religious Experience

2 Openness as Fact, Achievement, and Gift

3 Openness and Religious Experience

III: Cognitional Structure

1 Dynamic Structure

2 Human Knowing as Dynamic Structure

3 Consciousness and Self-Knowledge

IV: Dimensions of Meaning

1 Meaning and the World of the Subject

2 Control of Meaning

3 Conclusion

V: The Future of Thomism

1 Classical Thomism

2 Thomism for Tomorrow

3 Conclusion

VI: Theology in Its New Context

VII: The Subject

1 The Neglected Subject

2 The Truncated Subject

3 The Immanentist Subject

4 The Existential Subject

5 The Alienated Subject

VIII: Pluralism, Classicism, and Relativism

1 Pluralism and Classicist Culture

2 Pluralism and Relativism

PART THREE: Method in Theology: Selections

I: Transcendental Method

1 A Preliminary Notion

2 Four Levels of Conscious Intentionality

3 The Functions of Transcendental Method

II: The Human Good

1 Judgments of Value

2 The Structure of the Human Good

III: Realms of Meaning

IV: Religion

1 The Question of God

2 Religious Experience

3 The Dialectical Character of Religious Development

4 Faith

5 A Technical Note

V: Functional Specialties

1 Three Types of Specialization

2 An Eightfold Division

3 Grounds of the Division

VI: History and Historical Method

1 Nature and History

2 Critical History

3 Heuristic Structures in Historical Method

VII: Dialectic

1 Horizons

2 Conversions and Breakdowns

3 Dialectic: The Problem

4 Dialectic: The Structure

VIII: Foundations

1 Categories

2 General Theological Categories

3 Special Theological Categories

4 Use of the Categories

PART FOUR: Late Writings

I: Static and Dynamic Viewpoints

II: Dialectic of Authority

III: Social Alienation and the Second Enlightenment

1 Social Alienation

2 The Second Enlightenment

IV: Healing and Creating in History

V: Praxis

VI: Natural Right and Historical Mindedness

1 Historicity

2 Natural Right in Historicity

3 The Dialectic of History

VII: The Degrees of Self-Transcendence

CHRONOLOGY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Works by Lonergan

Selected Other Works

INDEX

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