Part 4: Statistics and Finality in Finality, Love, and Marriage
By David Fleischacker In part two of this series, I mentioned that the “repetitive” element of the physical, vital, and sensitive spontaneity is differentiated into schemes of recurrence based […]...
Part 3: Statistics in Finality, Love, Marriage
By David Fleischacker Dedicated to Br. Dunstan Robidoux, OSB on his birthday Lonergan does discuss statistics within this 1943 essay, however, it is clear that he has not developed the […]...
Part 2: Fecundity within Human Process: A few important distinctions and relations, but no big insights.
by David Fleischacker This is the second installment on a series that will give focused attention to statements and sections of Lonergan’s 1943 essay, Finality, Love, and Marriage. The focus […]...
Part 1: Finality, Love, and Marriage: Gender, Fecundity, and Horizontal Finality (Z’ to Z”)
by David Fleischacker I have been re-reading “Finality, Love, and Marriage” written by Lonergan in 1943.[1] It is quite an interesting piece once you explore the details and interconnections of […]...
Transubstantiation Explanation
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Insight, Method, and the Trinity
On Holy Saturday morning at 10:30 am, we will be discussing INSIGHT, chapter 14, section 3 (Method in Metaphysics). We will link it to METHOD IN THEOLOGY, chapter 1, section […]...
Commentary: Ft. 28 Ch. 1 Lonergan’s Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas
Footnote 28 in Lonergan’s Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas The full text of this footnote in Bernard Lonergan’s Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas is given as follows: “See […]...
Inner Words as Objects of Thought (without footnotes)
Some Notes on the Inner Word as an Object of Thought by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB In a review of arguments that Lonergan marshals, Lonergan contrasts the necessity of an […]...
Servais Pinckaers’s Morality: the Catholic View, summary
Understanding what is Catholic Morality Servais Pinckaers’ Morality The Catholic View, an introduction Preface: to understand the many different components which are constitutive of Catholic morality in terms of specifying […]...
Form and Species or Form versus Species, 3rd ed.
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