[Magdalen] Bernard Lonergan

[Grace Cangialosi]

His name was mentioned several times in the Liberation Theology Course I took at Catholic University around 1988. The other students, who were all Roman Catholic, seemed quite comfortable with his name. I, on the other hand, had never heard of him...

> On Dec 28, 2016, at 1:23 PM, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com> wrote:
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>> From: "Mahoney, W. Michael" <wmmah at stoneledge.net>
>> Sent: Dec 28, 2016 12:25 PM
>> To: Magdalen at herberthouse.org
>> Subject: [Magdalen] Bernard Lonergan
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>> I am curious.  How many of you have heard  of Bernard Lonergan, the man and
>> his works?
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>> He was a 20th century Jesuit theologian still of considerable note in
>> circles in which I do not travel.  I recently encountered him in EfM class.
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>> I used to be up on things like this.  Have I become isolated?
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>> Mike M
> He was a major figure of the theology of the 60's or mic century. He is considered one of the major Jesuit theologians of all time ranked with Suarez and Bellarmine and Chardin. I have not studied him, but he was a familiar name when I was in the theology school
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> Joe