Bernard J.F. Lonergan

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Bernard J.F. Lonergan


Born
in Buckingham, Quebec, Canada
December 17, 1904

Died
November 26, 1984

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Fr. Bernard Joseph Frances Lonergan, SJ, CC (Ph.D., Theology, Gregorian University (Rome), 1939; B.A., University of London, 1930), was an ordained Roman Catholic priest of the Jesuit order. As an economist and philosopher-theologian in the Thomist tradition, he taught at Loyola College (Montreal) (now Concordia University), Regis College (now federated within the University of Toronto), the Pontifical Gregorian University, Harvard University, and Boston College. He was named by Pope Paul VI one of the original members of the International Theological Commission.

He is the author of Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1957) and Method in Theology (1972), which established what he called the Generalized Empirical Method (GEM). Th
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Method in Theology

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Insight, Volume 3

4.48 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 1957 — 2 editions
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Grace and Freedom: Operativ...

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Understanding and Being: Th...

4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1980 — 8 editions
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Verbum: Word and Idea in Aq...

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A Second Collection

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The Triune God: Systematics

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The Ontological and Psychol...

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The Subject (The Aquinas Le...

3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1968 — 7 editions
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A third collection: papers ...

4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1985 — 7 editions
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“Be attentive, be intelligent, be responsible, be loving, and if necessary, change.”
Bernard J.F. Lonergan, Creativity and Method: Essays in Honor of Bernard Lonergan, S.J.

“To demand the absolute and to be content with absolutely nothing else results in a skepticism.”
Bernard Lonergan

“One cannot play fast and loose with what one knows to be true.”
Bernard Lonergan