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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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Lonergan on the Unity of Man and the Immortality of the Soul, revised ed.
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From Cosmological to Transcendental Foundations of Male and Female
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by Dr. David Fleischacker Back in 2017, I put together a talk on male and female…
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A few statements 1. First data of consciousness are data. Data is anything to which we…
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by David Fleischacker Think of nothingness. It lacks being. It is not intelligible. It cannot start…
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The memorial of the immaculate heart of Mary is today. Yesterday was the solemnity of the…
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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…
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Analytical and Synthetical Reasoning in Aquinas
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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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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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by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB Not infrequently, in different texts,…
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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…
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I had been visiting the Lonergan workshop in Boston this…
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Seminar October 20 on the metaphysical character of relations
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summary by David Fleischacker Relations: Primary Relativity Concrete Relations: Primary…
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Understanding Two Kinds of Emanation within God Through a Transposition of Meaning
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Originating Consciousness and Emanation within God
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by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB In Lonergan’s theology of the Trinity as this is given in his The Triune God: Systematics, Lonergan postulates explanatory principles […]
Sacraments and the Divine Entrance into the World Mediated by Meaning
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by David Fleischacker I hear people wondering at times about the meaning and purpose of the Catholic belief in the seven sacraments. Traditionally, these sacraments […]
Embryonic Stem Cells, Adult Stem Cells, and Medical Treatments
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by Dr. David Fleischacker Only adult stem cells work in adult tissues. Embryonic stem cells work in embryos, not mature organisms. The Term “Stem Cell” […]
40 Years Since Humanae Vitae: A Metaphysical Distinction
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by Dr. David Fleischacker As with men, the organic and psychic life of women possesses an intelligibility that begins with the finality to conceive […]
Necessity in St. Anselm’s Notion of Method in Theology
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Lonergan and Aquinas and Questions about Using a Faculty Psychology
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by Dunstan Robidoux, OSB In the works of Aquinas and, sometimes, even in some of Lonergan’s writings, one finds references to human conscious life in […]
Love of the gods, of God, and the Capacity for self-transcendence.
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St. Thomas Aquinas argues that sanctifying grace transforms the very essence of the human soul (Summa Theologica, I-II, Q 110, a. 4). This essence is […]
40 Years After Humanae Vitae: Male Procreative Schemes
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by Dr. David Fleischacker Some say men all start with a female body, however this is only partially true as far as I can tell. […]