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In the mid- to late-1930s, while he was a student at the Gregorian University in Rome, Bernard Lonergan wrote a series of eight essays on the philosophy and theology of history. These essays foreshadow a number of the major themes in his life's work. The significance of these essays is enormous, not only for an understanding of the later trajectory of Lonergan's own work but also for the development of a contemporary systematic theology. In an important entry from 1965 in his archival papers, Lonergan wrote that the "mediated object" of systematics is Geschichte or the history that is lived and written about. In the same entry, he stated that the "doctrines" that this systematic theology would attempt to understand are focused on "redemption." The seeds of such a theology are planted in the current volume, where the formulae that are so pronounced in his later work first appear. Students of Lonergan's work will find their understanding of his philosophy profoundly affected by the essays in this volume

Education --- Philosophy. --- Theology. --- Bernard Lonergan. --- Dialectic of history. --- Geschichte. --- Gregorian University. --- Progress. --- decline. --- history of religion. --- history. --- method in theology. --- redemption. --- systematic theology. --- theology. --- Catholic Church --- Doctrines.

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"In The Givenness of Desire, Randall S. Rosenberg examines the human desire for God through the lens of Lonergan's "concrete subjectivity." Rosenberg engages and integrates two major scholarly developments: the tension between Neo-Thomists and scholars of Henri de Lubac over our natural desire to see God and the theological appropriation of the mimetic theory of Rene Girard, with an emphasis on the saints as models of desire. With Lonergan as an integrating thread, the author engages a variety of thinkers, including Hans Urs von Balthasar, Jean-Luc Marion, Rene Girard, James Alison, Lawrence Feingold, John Milbank, among others. The theme of concrete subjectivity helps to resist the tendency of equating too easily the natural desire for being with the natural desire for God without at the same time acknowledging the widespread distortion of desire found in the consumer culture that infects contemporary life. The Givenness of Desire investigates our paradoxical desire for God that is rooted in both the natural and supernatural."--

Subjectivity --- Desire --- God --- Natural theology --- 234.1 --- Appetency --- Craving --- Longing --- Yearning --- Emotions --- Subjectivism --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Relativity --- Natural religion --- Theology, Natural --- Apologetics --- Religion --- Religion and science --- Theology --- Philosophy of nature --- Metaphysics --- Misotheism --- Theism --- Leer over de genade. De gratia --- Lonergan, Bernard J. F. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Subjectivity. --- Desire. --- Bernard Lonergan. --- Catholic. --- Henri de Lubac. --- anthropology. --- consumer. --- culture. --- social. --- systematic. --- teaching. --- theological. --- theology.