This collection of essays celebrates Frederick Goddard Lawrence, a member of the faculty of theology of Boston College for more than forty years, for not only his original theological and philosophical work as a formidable philosopher of hermeneutics, a leading interpreter of the thought of Bernard Lonergan, and an inspiring teacher but also the authenticity and integrity of his scholarship, his teaching, and his life. The essays comprising this volume explore and develop themes resonant in the work of both Lawrence and Lonergan including interiority analysis and self-appropriation, political...

This collection of essays examines a series of contemporary methodological issues in theology, in conversation with Bernard Lonergan's proposal in Method in Theology on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary. The 'New Exodus' in prospect is a passage from the current state of theology to a more effective future.

Fifty years ago, Bernard Lonergan, SJ, sought to propose a new architectonic for theological thinking that could replace the antiquated structures of Scholastic thought to provide a different kind of unity for theological inquiry. Lonergan’s alternative was to...