Book: The Human Mind and How it Relates to the Church’s Teaching on Natural Law, 16th ed.
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Indwelling
By David Fleischacker I am aware of at least two theological teachings that make significant use of the notion of indwelling. The first deals with the indwelling of God in the soul, and most would think of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. The second deals with the mutual...
From Newton to Dalton: Physics to Chemistry
David Fleischacker, Ph.D. [May 26, 2009] If Newton’s physics and Dalton’s chemistry are related as a lower to a higher viewpoint, there must be some point of contact, just as numbers and operations were the points of contact between arithmetic and algebra. It seems that this point is mass....
A Descriptive Metaphysics: An Analogy for the Science of Metaphysics
By David Fleischacker, PhD First Draft Metaphysics as a science seeks to build a comprehensive and generic viewpoint of the universe that is thus far known. How? It finds common features of all sciences and the common features of the objects of those sciences, and melds these features into...
Finality, Love, Marriage: Tensions and Contradictions in Love, Part 9
by David Fleischacker, Ph.D. I have decided to return to an earlier sequence of blogs that are commentaries on Lonergan’s 1943 essay, “Finality, Love, and Marriage” — an essay which can be found in the 4th volume of his collected works. My objective is twofold; 1) to understand Lonergan’s intentions in...
Square root of two as an irrational number
Square root of two as an irrational number by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB edited by Mr. Michael Hernandez MA When Lonergan discusses inverse insight in the first chapter of his Insight: A Study of Human Understanding, he presents a mathematical example to illustrate the nature of inverse insight as...
Reflections on Scholasticism
Renoresponse...
Origins of Systematic Theology: contribution of St. Anselm
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Sufficient Reason in Lonergan and Aquinas
Sufficient Reason in Aquinas and Lonergan...
Feeling and Knowing in Lonergan: reflections on how they relate
Reflections on feeling and knowing...