Today's overlapping social and ecological crises portend Bernard Lonergan's memorable remark that "the world lies in pieces before us and pleads to be put together again." The calls of Catholic social teaching for a 'humane globalization' and, more recently an 'integral ecology' only heighten the urgency of this task. Inspired and aided by Lonergan's thought, this volume presents an array of essays that collectively aspire to answer these pleas. Engaging theology, philosophy, the social sciences, and the natural sciences, the volume's authors hope to show how in fact 'everything is...
Today's overlapping social and ecological crises portend Bernard Lonergan's memorable remark that "the world lies in pieces before us and pleads to be...