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NEWSLETTER 4 2 / 1 M A R C H 2021 PUBLICATIONS Arcamone, Dominic. Conversion as Transformation: Lonergan, Mentors and Cinema. Eugene OR: Pickwick Publications, 2020. Blackwood, Jeremy W. “Response to ‘Understanding the God of Love: An Essay on Lonergan’s Systematics of the Trinity.’” The Lonergan Review 11 (2020): 125-134. doi: https://doi.org/10.5840/lonerganreview2020117. Byrne, Patrick H. “Curiosity: Vice or Virtue? Augustine and Lonergan.” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 95/1 (2021): 69-93. doi: https://doi.org/10.5840/acpq2020127215. Two recent studies by Joseph Torchia and Paul Griffiths show the importance of Augustine’s critique of the vice of curiositas to contemporary life and thought. Superficially, it might seem that Augustine condemned curiosity because it “seeks to find out whatever it wishes without restriction of any kind.” Though profoundly influenced by Augustine, Bernard Lonergan praised intellectual curiosity precisely insofar as it is motivated by an unrestricted desire to know, rather than by less noble motives. Drawing upon the researches of Torchia and Griffiths, this article endeavors to show that Augustine does not simply equate curiositas with an unrestricted desire to know, and that the virtue of intellectual curiosity as Lonergan understood it is in fact endorsed by Augustine by means of its relationship to the virtue of studiositas. This more nuanced view of the virtues and vices of intellect can provide guidance for contemporary intellectual pursuits, both how to pursue and not to pursue knowledge. Coghlan, David. “Fostering Undergraduate Research through insider inquiry: Exploiting student work Experiences.” Management Teaching Review 6/1, (2021): 66–72. Research is typically taught to undergraduates as an analytic activity with a focus on engaging with externalized data. Rarely are undergraduates taught to inquire into settings and situations where they are close to the data and implicated in the setting, such as in job placements, internships, family businesses and part-time work in restaurants, supermarkets, boutiques and others. This article provides an account of an undergraduate business course where the students learn to attend to their data of consciousness and data of sense by applying the generalized empirical method to their experiences in organizations and so learn to inquire critically into the dynamics of an organization from the perspective of being an insider-participant. Dadosky, John D. “Mediation, Culture, and Religion: Approaching Lonergan’s Method in Theology.” The Lonergan Review 11 (2020): 53-75. doi: https://doi.org/10.5840/lonerganreview2020114. An earlier draft of this essay was given at the Lonergan Research Institute Graduate Seminar October 2019. In this paper I explore the “Introduction” to Method in Theology and examine the presuppositions of this important text. These are concepts that Lonergan deemed necessary for introducing his work on functional specialization. I focus on mediation as a two-way process and the empirical notion of culture. It is interesting how these two significant ideas make their way into the brief introduction, which Lonergan wrote last when composing the text. 2 Lonergan Studies Newsletter 42/1 Laracy, John. “Understanding the God of Love: An Essay on Lonergan’s Systematics of the Trinity.” The Lonergan Review 11 (2020): 94-123. doi: https://doi.org/10.5840/lonerganreview2020116. In this paper I argue that the eternal unity of Lonergan’s “three divine subjects” must be understood in light of the eternal love of the divine persons, revealed in Christ’s relationship with the Father (see esp. John 17). This new starting point in triune agapē need not threaten the integrity of Lonergan’s thought, as long as one reads his psychological analogy as a preliminary heuristic structure. Indeed, the tensions and developments in his own systematics justify this move. Liddy, Richard M. “Newman, His Influences, and His Influence.” The Lonergan Review 11 (2020): 76- 93. doi: https://doi.org/10.5840/lonerganreview2020115. McShane, Philip. “On the Stile of a Crucial Experiment.” Divyadaan: Journal of Philosophy & Education, 31/3 (2020): 327–344. The essay is an invitation to an encounter, one described by Lonergan in Method in Theology chapter 10 as “an objectification of subjectivity in the style of the crucial experiment” (CWL 14, 237). In that chapter he describes a specific procedure for identifying horizons, indicating resulting views, and bringing differences out into the open. McShane invites us, the readers, to step off our merely academic stiles—a set of usually two steps that you climb over to cross a wall or fence—near a university, church, synagogue, or mosque, and to expand on what we consider authentic in the “very, very delicate area of value judgments.” McShane, Philip. Randomness, Statistics, and Emergence. 2nd ed. Vancouver: Axial Publishing, 2021. Randomness, Statistics, and Emergence illustrates how classical and statistical procedures complement one another. McShane focuses on the methods of empirical investigators and the type of explanation they seek. His research, which was carried out in the late 1960s, included statistical investigations of the distribution of Ranunculus bulbosus (buttercup) in Port Meadow, Oxford. While drawing upon Insight (CWL 3), McShane contends that emergence and evolution are explained in terms of probabilities of emergence and probabilities of survival of recurrence- schemes. He argues that by attending to their performance, those doing the relevant sciences— biophysics and biochemistry are his focus in the last four chapters—are able to verify objective randomness and emergence. This 2nd edition includes a second preface, “The Riverrun to God,” written by McShane in the fall of 2012, as well as an introduction by Terrance Quinn, author of Invitation to Generalized Empirical Method in Philosophy and Science and The (Pre-) Dawning of Functional Specialization in Physics. McShane, Philip. Wealth of Self and Wealth of Nations: Self-Axis of the Great Ascent. 2nd ed. James Duffy, ed. Vancouver: Axial Publishing, 2021. This introductory text presents exercises for appropriating intellectual process that are accessible to undergraduates. The book is something of a climber’s guide, and as indicated by the subtitle, the axis of the ascent is the reader. In the Epilogue McShane notes that a viewpoint “can develop only slowly, and its emergence is at times more genetical, at times more dialectical, depending on one’s teacher, temperament, tribulations, and tradition.” Two symbolisms first introduced in this book were developed in McShane’s later writings. The “mibox” diagram in chapter 5 “The Inside-Out of Radical Existentialism” reappears in various Disputing Quests (2016–2017) regarding potency-form-act isomorphism. The symbolism for studying organic development that McShane introduced in the epilogue was still on his mind in January of 2020 when he identified “J ~ Inventing Techniques” as the central essay in Interpretation from A to Z (LSN 41/1). March 2021 3 Muratore, Saturnino. “Bernard Lonergan and Intellectual Conversion.” Divyadaan: Journal of Philosophy & Education 31/3 (2020): 275–284. Lonergan proposed that three conversions (intellectual, moral and religious) were necessary if theologians are to work properly in theology in oratione recta. He himself acknowledges that intellectual conversion is difficult, because it involves going beyond the understanding of human knowing on the model of ocular vision. Such a model may be found in the thought of John of the Cross, Immanuel Kant, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. Muratore, Saturnino. “Transformation sin the Fundamental Category Nature/Natural: The Contribution of Bernard Lonergan.” Divyadaan: Journal of Philosophy & Education 31/3 (2020): 245–274. The Aristotelian-Scholastic tradition upholds a static and normative notion of nature/natural, while contemporary science considers nature as the outcome of a series of open processes, among which the emergence of life plays a determining role. Within this context the contribution of Bernard Lonergan is of special significance. By appealing to the eminently heuristic quality of the category nature/natural, he allows us to approach the modern evolutionary and co-evolutionary views in a different way and, thus, to continue the dialogue-confrontation between scientific knowledges and theology that is essential in facing the challenges of the present and of the immediate future. Olkovich, Nicholas. “Complicating the Reception of Lonergan on ‘Sacralization and Secularization’.” Irish Theological Quarterly (22 February 2021): 1-20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0021140021994211. The core of Bernard Lonergan’s 1973 lecture entitled ‘Sacralization and Secularization’ is his fourfold distinction between: (a) a sacralization to be dropped; (b) a sacralization to … in judging be fostered; (c) a secularization to be welcomed; and (d) a people morally, do secularization to be resisted. Drawing on elements found in not ask them what Lonergan’s broader corpus, Robert Doran and John Dadosky they think about have presented detailed interpretations of this work. Conversant morality but watch with both approaches as well as with contemporary debates in what they do. political philosophy and theology, my response aims to - Topics in Education complicate their insightful albeit relatively heuristic treatments. CWL 10, 98, My interpretation of Lonergan’s fourfold distinction culminates with an account of democracy