A New Exodus? Method and Theology Today

9781626007307

380 pages

Marquette University Press

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Overview

Fifty years ago, Bernard Lonergan, SJ, sought to propose a new architectonic for theological thinking that could replace the antiquated structures of Scholastic thought to provide a different kind of unity for theological inquiry. Lonergan's alternative was to go behind the procedures of the natural sciences to the underlying operations of the human mind that constitute the dynamic structure of human knowing and doing: attention and recall; inquiry, insight, and formulation; reflection and judgment; deliberation and decision. Grounding method in the empirically verified, dynamic structure of these operations, he provided a rationale for theology's post-classicist, historically-minded re-conception of itself as a methodical form of inquiry.

Author Bio

Ligita Ryliškytė, SJE, is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at Boston College. Her research focuses on the Augustinian-Thomist tradition (especially as transposed by Bernard Lonergan) and its contemporary developments in the areas of Christology and soteriology. She is the author of Why the Cross? Divine Friendship and the Power of Justice. Jeremy D. Wilkins is Associate Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at Boston College and Director of the Boston College Lonergan Institute. He is the author of Before Truth: Aquinas, Lonergan,and the Problem of Wisdom and co-editor of The Incarnate Word and The Redemption volumes in Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan.