The number of books and articles published about Lonergan, and studies that have drawn on his work, has mounted dramatically over the years. Two journals, devoted entirely to Lonergan studies, are published by the Boston College Lonergan Institute:

  • The Lonergan Workshop journal, edited by Fred Lawrence, makes available to a wider audience the papers presented every summer at the Boston College Lonergan Workshop. Each annual volume typically contains ten essays or more, and reflects the “ongoing collaboration” that was Lonergan’s vision of the fruit his work would bear.

  • METHOD: Journal of Lonergan Studies is published twice a year, and includes articles by Lonergan scholars from all over the world. A number of Lonergan’s own essays were first published in METHOD, and several “symposium” issues have gathered essays on topics such as consciousness, theology and the human sciences, and philosophy of the religious phenomenon.

The Lonergan Institute at Boston College is proud to offer individual subscriptions, institutional subscriptions, and back issues of both the Lonergan Workshop journal and Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies.

In addition to these journals, and under the auspices of the Workshop journal or the Lonergan Institute, a number of monographs have also been published that carry Lonergan’s influence into a remarkable range of disciplines. To learn more about these offerings, and for purchasing options, please click on the appropriate link above.

N.B.: The Lonergan Center does not charge for shipping and handling!

Monographs

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Before Truth: Lonergan, Aquinas, and the Problem of Wisdom

Jeremy D. Wilkins

“Jeremy Wilkins provides a detailed and reliable examination of the thought of Aquinas and Lonergan, as well as some historical context, criticism, and evaluation of their contributions. It makes a tremendous contribution to systematic theology, will immediately become a must-read for Aquinas and Lonergan scholars, and will remain an important book for many years to come.“—Mark Miller, author of The Quest for God and the Good Life: Lonergan’s Theological Anthropology (CUA Press)

The Catholic University of America Press, 2018

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Coherent Christianity: Toward an Articulate Faith

Louis Roy

From the publisher: “Throughout this book, Louis Roy illustrates his conviction that Christianity consists in the most profound experience to which human beings are invited by God. This experience involves meaning and truth, hope and love, suffering and joy, solidarity and critique. It is a space of freedom, where diverse persons seek the light and make their decisions, interacting with the intellectual and affective resources of their culture. Faith is understood as a personal and communal adventure—a sequence of real life experiences.

Cascade Books, 2018

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Image to Insight: The Art of William Hart McNichols

John D. Dadosky

From the publisher: “Iconography is undergoing a revival in twenty-first-century American Catholicism. William Hart McNichols, who paints in his studio in New Mexico, is one of the most popular iconographers of this renaissance, and this book comprises a selection of his icons and sacred images. The book presents images of holy women and holy men as well as images of Mary and Jesus. Philosopher and theologian John D. Dadosky introduces each piece and demonstrates how McNichols’s paintings communicate sacred stories as well as mark significant moments in the artist’s personal development.”

University of New Mexico Press, 2018

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The Fragility of Consciousness: Faith, Reason, and the Human Good

Frederick G. Lawrence

The Fragility of Consciousness is the first published collection of essays by Frederick G. Lawrence, an authoritative interpreter of the work of Bernard Lonergan and of twentieth-century continental philosophy and hermeneutics. Featuring some of his best known writings as well as unpublished work, the essays in this volume examine the relationship between faith and reason in twentieth- and twenty-first-century philosophical and theological debate.  … In an age marked by social, cultural, political, and ecclesial fragmentation, Lawrence models a modus vivendi based on generosity, friendship, conversation, and understanding.

University of Toronto Press, 2017

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Self-Possession: Being At Home In Conscious Performance

Mark D. Morelli

Self-Possession: Being At Home In Conscious Performance is a meditative exploration of our inescapable and fluid relationship to the fundamental ideals of Meaning, Objectivity, Knowledge, Truth, Reality, and Value upon which we depend to inform and guide our living. It is an attempt to describe the elusive interior experience of these basic notions at work in our conscious performance.

Boston College Lonergan Institute, 2016

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Authenticity as Self-Transcendence: The Enduring Insights of Bernard Lonergan

Michael H. McCarthy

Michael H. McCarthy, professor emeritus of philosophy at Vassar College, has published a new book titled Authenticity as Self-Transcendence: The Enduring Insights of Bernard Lonergan. McCarthy has carefully studied the writings of Bernard Lonergan (Canadian philosopher-theologian, 1904–1984) for over fifty years. In his 1989 book, The Crisis of Philosophy, McCarthy argued for the superiority of Lonergan’s distinctive philosophical project to those of his analytic and phenomenological rivals. Now in Authenticity as Self-Transcendence: The Enduring Insights of Bernard Lonergan, he develops and expands his earlier argument with four new essays, designed to show Lonergan’s exceptional relevance to the cultural situation of late modernity.

University of Notre Dame Press, 2015

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The Quest for God and the Good Life: Lonergan’s Theological Anthropology

Mark T. Miller

This book provides a basic yet broad introduction to Lonergan’s thought in particular and Catholic theology in general. Mark T. Miller’s approach is a theological anthropology organized into three main categories, “progress,” “decline,” and “redemption,” which transpose the traditional concepts of nature, sin, and grace into a contemporary social and historical context. Progress is driven by the natural human desire for God. Decline is a downward spiral of violence and suffering caused by sin’s perversion of the good, natural desire. Redemption is God’s gift of God’s self that fulfills our natural desire and becomes the foundation for authentic human living.

The Catholic University of America Press, 2013

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Three Thomist Studies

Frederick E. Crowe

This volume republishes (with translations of Latin passages) three extensive examinations of Thomas Aquinas by Lonergan’s premiere interpreter, which originally appeared in Theological Studies. The volume includes Crowe’s well-known “Complacency and Concern in the Thought of St. Thomas,” together with studies of “Universal Norms and the Concrete Operabile in St. Thomas Aquinas” and “St. Thomas and the Isomorphism of Human Knowing and its Proper Object.”

Lonergan Workshop, 2000

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At the Threshold of the Halfway House: Bernard Lonergan’s Encounter with John Alexander Stewart

Mark D. Morelli

Extending Lonergan’s method into the realm of ethics, Byrne argues that we can use self-appropriation to come to objective judgements of value. The Ethics of Discernment is an introspective analysis of that process, in which sustained ethical inquiry and attentiveness to feelings as “intentions of value” leads to a rich conception of the good.

Boston College Lonergan Institute, 2007