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Fr. Lonergan's style is related to his method, which is also, I assume, related to his style of thought: it's basically a fleshy Aristotelian outline. It would be dry if it wasn't for the fact it was also so clear and relevant.
— Feb 24, 2016 10:56AM
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Fr. Lonergan just mentioned a few points about civilizational decline that I'd picked up from Quigley's historical methodology, which, in turn, I'm pretty sure they both derived from Toynbee. Unlike Quigley, however, pastoral care swoops in to shed a hopeful light on an otherwise dismal state of affairs: "...as such love can undo the mischief of decline and restore the cumulative process of progress."
— Feb 16, 2016 04:31PM
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This book is going to end up having a profound impact on my work as an intellectual, on the form of my intellect. What Fr. Lonergan is doing is absorbing the recent insights (of his time, before a lot of the continental work was translated into English) of existentialist themes for Scholasticism as an adaptive system of thought. I believe his purpose was to go beyond theology: this is athropologic-ethics.
— Feb 15, 2016 03:16PM
