by David Fleischacker Description and Explanation: Mendel’s Pea Plants One good illustration of the dynamic relationship between description and explanation is found in Mendel’s breakthrough […]
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Male and Female: A New Explanatory Paradigm
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Law of the Cross, homily, Bishop Philip Egan, Diocese of Portsmouth, Sept. 14, 2014
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Cosmopolis and the Challenge of Secularism, opening paper, Rt Rev Philip Egan, Bishop of Portsmouth, England, LI symposium: Liberated by God and his Church, Sept 14, 2014
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Liberty and Revelation, Paper by David Fleischacker at LI Symposium: Liberated by God and his Church
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Lonergan on the Unity of Man and the Immortality of the Soul, revised ed.
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Any Philosophy or Science based on Data of Consciousness is Empirical
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A few statements 1. First data of consciousness are data. Data is anything to which we…
Ex Nihilo, the Empirical Residue, and Becoming
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by David Fleischacker Think of nothingness. It lacks being. It is not intelligible. It cannot start…
Sacred and Immaculate Hearts of Jesus and Mary: The Ultimate Finality and Fertility
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- June 28, 2025
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The memorial of the immaculate heart of Mary is today. Yesterday was the solemnity of the…
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The following essay was preparatory for a lecture given at the Lonergan Institute in Washington, D.C.…
Lonergan rejects the dialectic of the “Real” and the “Apparent”
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Lonergan opens his 14th chapter of Insight anticipating some of the "antitheses" against his previous three…
How to be happy in an unhappy world: what is the happiness of Christians? How is the possibility of human happiness related to Christian faith?
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Analytical and Synthetical Reasoning in Aquinas
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Thoughts on Eve
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[Original published on another site May 11, 2019] by David Fleischacker Have you ever noticed what…
The Recasting of the Professio fidei and a Question which asks about Church teachings that are presented as definitive
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Evangelization, Historically Minded
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by Dr. David Fleischacker, Director of the Lonergan Institute Pope Francis has been speaking recently of…
Metaphor of the Judge in the “Critique of Pure Reason”: A Key for Understanding the Kantian Theory of Knowledge
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Accidents as a Specification of Internal Relation in Lonergan and Aquinas
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Divine Understanding as Willing in Aquinas
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Ryszard Legutko’s The Cunning of Freedom: Saving the Self in an Age of False Idols
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God as God is Understood and Known by Us: a Thomist Perspective
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Economics: Parables informing Policy Assumptions
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Analytical and Synthetical Reasoning in Aquinas
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Any Philosophy or Science based on Data of Consciousness is Empirical
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A few statements 1. First data of consciousness are data.…
Ex Nihilo, the Empirical Residue, and Becoming
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by David Fleischacker Think of nothingness. It lacks being. It…
Sacred and Immaculate Hearts of Jesus and Mary: The Ultimate Finality and Fertility
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The memorial of the immaculate heart of Mary is today.…
Male and Female: A New Explanatory Paradigm
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Applying a Thomist Principle: Quidquid recipitur ad modum recipientis recipitur
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by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB Not infrequently, in different texts,…
St. Thomas on why there are only three Persons when there are four mutually opposed relations in the Holy Trinity
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by Dr. David Fleischacker In the first part of the…
The Anonymous Christian
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I had been visiting the Lonergan workshop in Boston this…
The Cosmological Foundations of Male and Female
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Talk given at the Lonergan Institute, December 17, 2017 Dr.…
Understanding Two Kinds of Emanation within God Through a Transposition of Meaning
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Part III – Chap. 7 – From Clan Society to Kingship
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Summary by Joanne Tetlow Ambiguity exists in the symbols of…
When does the human person begin to exist? Part 8, a challenge to the last blog.
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by David Fleischacker I am hoping now to return to…
Relating Description and Explanation: The Case of Gregor Mendel
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by David Fleischacker Description and Explanation: Mendel’s Pea Plants One…
Introduction to Metaphysics
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Korea2011PotencyFormOhneFolie This paper was prepared as an initial introduction for…
Speaking about God’s Nature in Aquinas and Lonergan: A Question about Different Starting Points
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by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB In his The Triune…
Questions about the Relationship of Description and Explanation.
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by David Fleischacker One of the areas that I have found to need further articulation in Lonergan’s writings is that of the scope and the […]
Rahner and Lonergan on the commitment to St. Thomas Aquinas, a paper by Fr. Linus Kpalap
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Light and Transcendence
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If you glance through the liturgy of the hours and the divine office, you will notice the frequency that the word light is used. Of […]
The Conversion of Memory and Intentionality in St. Augustine’s Confessions
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by David Fleischacker Last night, I met a seminarian who had been reading Saint Augustine’s Confessions and was discussing how much he liked the last […]
Indwelling
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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 […]
Conscience, Saint Thomas More, and Dr. Peter Kreeft
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Sorry this is late. I try to get these out as near to 3 pm on Fridays as possible, however yesterday, I was busy with […]
From Newton to Dalton: Physics to Chemistry
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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 […]
When Does the Human Being Begin to Exist? Special Question 1: Is There a Valid Argument to Say that Human Life Begins at Implantation?
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By Dr. David Fleischacker [This springs from a series of blogs titled “When does the human being begin to exist?” which I had written starting […]
Lonergan and the Shift to Method
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by David Fleischacker Method can be looked at as technique. This of course entirely misses the meaning of method as Lonergan conceived of it. […]