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50 Years of Method in Theology: 2022 Lecture Series Details
02-07-2022
The Lonergan Institute is pleased to announce our 2022 lecture series, “50 Years of Method in Theology: Doing Theology in the Twenty-First Century.”
Comprised of three main speakers each fall and spring of 2022, each event will also have two respondents from Lonergan studies and varying theology and philosophy backgrounds.
Spring 2022
M. Shawn Copeland (Boston College) “Lonergan and the ‘Decolonial Turn'”
- Respondents: Andrew Prevot (Boston College) and Ligita Ryliskyte (Boston College)
- Monday, February 21st at 4:30pm
- Boston College Stokes S195
Frederick G. Lawrence (Boston College) “Theology as Hermeneutical: The Road to the Hermeneutics of Love”
- Respondents: Jeremy Blackwood (Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology) and Jeffrey Bloechl (Boston College)
- Thursday, March 17th at 4:30pm
- Boston College Stokes S195
Neil J. Ormerod (Sydney College of Divinity) “Method, Meaning and Doctrinal Development”
- Respondents TBA
- Friday, April 8th at 3:00pm
- Boston College Stokes S195
New book: Mark Morelli on “Hegel Inside Out: Essays on Lonergan’s Debt to Hegel.”
04-14-2021
A new book of essays by Mark Morelli on Hegel and Lonergan has just been released:“Little attention has been paid to the influence of Lonergan’s reading of Hegel and his struggle with absolute idealism on his development from faculty psychology to cognitional theory and from cognitional theory to intentionality analysis. The essays collected here attempt to fill that lacuna and to expose Lonergan’s great debt to Hegel.”
More About the BookIn memoriam: John Haughey, SJ
02-25-2020
The Lonergan Institute community was saddened to learn of the passing of John Haughey, SJ on December 5th at the age of 89. Fr. Haughey was a regular participant in Lonergan Workshops, and authored an important work on Lonergan’s thought, Where is Knowing Going (Georgetown University Press, 2009), which he published in 2011. He authored ten books in his long career on topics as diverse as personal finance, work, and public policy.
Born in White Plains, New York in 1930, Fr. Haughey soon moved to Philadelphia and attended St. Thomas More High School, entering the Novitiate of St. Isaac Jogues in Wernersville, PA in 1948. He received a Licentiate in Philosophy from Bellarmine College, a Licentiate in Sacred Theology from Woodstock College and a Doctor of Sacred Theology from the Catholic University of America. He was ordained a priest on June 18, 1961.
Following ordination, Fr. Haughey taught theology at Georgetown University until 1969 when he began work as an assistant editor at America Magazine, the national Jesuit Catholic periodical. In 1974, he became a research associate at the Woodstock Theological Center in Washington DC, where he served for ten years. He then served Seton Hall University for two years as a visiting professor of theology.
In 1986, Fr. Haughey became superior and pastor at St. Peter Church in Charlotte, NC, serving the parish for four years. He then spent six years teaching business ethics at Loyola University Chicago and completed subsequent stints at John Carroll University and Marquette University, teaching religious studies and theology, respectively. In 2004, he returned to the Woodstock Theological Center where he served for nine years as a visiting fellow. For his final post, he moved to the Colombiere Jesuit community in Baltimore in 2013, praying for the Church and the Society of Jesus.
We greatly appreciate Fr. Haughey’s contribution to Lonergan scholarship and his presence will be missed.