The Wisdom of Order

Preface Introduction         Ordered Unity         Method and the Pluralistic Context         The Scope of this Work 1. Approaching Lonergan’s Method in Theology: The Preface and Introduction         Introduction        The Preface        The Introduction        Theology and Mediation        Theology Mediates Through Mutual Self-Mediation        An Empirical Notion of Culture        Method Defined        A Model? 2. Method        A Third Way        Method        Excursus on Transcendental Beauty        Transcendental Method        Functions of Transcendental Method 3. Apprehending and Doing the Good        Introduction        The Good            Skills            Feelings            Excursus: Beauty and Intersubjectivity            The Scale of Values            Distorted Affectivity            The Notion of Value            Judgments of Value        Some Clarifications Regarding Lonergan’s Fourth-Level Operations             Crowe’s Development of Contemplation             Fourth-Level Operations: Insights?        Beliefs         The Structure of the Human Good         Progress and Decline 4. Different Types of Meaning         Introduction         Types of Meaning              Intersubjectivity and Intersubjective Meaning               Intersubjective Meaning               Symbols               Linguistic Meaning                Incarnate Meaning          Elements of Meaning              Functions of Meaning          Four Realms and “Four” Stages of Meaning              First Stage to Second Stage              Second Stage to Third Stage          Transcendence and the Fourth Stage              The Fourth Stage: Some Questions 5. Lonergan’s Notion of “Genuine” Religion          Introduction          The Question of God          Self-Transcendence              A Note on Kierkegaard and the Negative Aesthetic          Religious Experience          Expressions of Religious Experience          Religious Development Is Dialectical: Distortions of Religion          The Word          Faith          Religious Belief          Technical Note          Genuine Religion and the Fourth Stage as a Differentiated Realm 6. Ordered Wisdom: The Eight Functional Specialties          Introduction          Three Types of Specialization          An Eightfold Division          Grounds of the Division          The Need for the Division          Dynamic Unity          Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index