Preface
Introduction
Ordered Unity
Method and the Pluralistic Context
The Scope of this Work
1. Approaching Lonergan’s Method in Theology: The Preface and Introduction
Introduction
The Preface
The Introduction
Theology and Mediation
Theology Mediates Through Mutual Self-Mediation
An Empirical Notion of Culture
Method Defined
A Model?
2. Method
A Third Way
Method
Excursus on Transcendental Beauty
Transcendental Method
Functions of Transcendental Method
3. Apprehending and Doing the Good
Introduction
The Good
Skills
Feelings
Excursus: Beauty and Intersubjectivity
The Scale of Values
Distorted Affectivity
The Notion of Value
Judgments of Value
Some Clarifications Regarding Lonergan’s Fourth-Level Operations
Crowe’s Development of Contemplation
Fourth-Level Operations: Insights?
Beliefs
The Structure of the Human Good
Progress and Decline
4. Different Types of Meaning
Introduction
Types of Meaning
Intersubjectivity and Intersubjective Meaning
Intersubjective Meaning
Symbols
Linguistic Meaning
Incarnate Meaning
Elements of Meaning
Functions of Meaning
Four Realms and “Four” Stages of Meaning
First Stage to Second Stage
Second Stage to Third Stage
Transcendence and the Fourth Stage
The Fourth Stage: Some Questions
5. Lonergan’s Notion of “Genuine” Religion
Introduction
The Question of God
Self-Transcendence
A Note on Kierkegaard and the Negative Aesthetic
Religious Experience
Expressions of Religious Experience
Religious Development Is Dialectical: Distortions of Religion
The Word
Faith
Religious Belief
Technical Note
Genuine Religion and the Fourth Stage as a Differentiated Realm
6. Ordered Wisdom: The Eight Functional Specialties
Introduction
Three Types of Specialization
An Eightfold Division
Grounds of the Division
The Need for the Division
Dynamic Unity
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
