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19In Empowering the Lonely Crowd, John Raymaker simplifies and extends arguments made in his previous book, A Buddhist-Christian Logic of the Heart, in particular the notion of a spiritual genome. Raymaker explores and compares John Paul II and Lonergan's thought in relation to Buddhism, concluding that while all life has a coded genome, all humans have a free, uncoded spiritual genome that is a viable alternative to postmodern scepticism
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16Focus introduction: Toward sharing values across cultures and religionsJournal of Religious Ethics 39 (2): 193-203. 2011.The contributors to this focus issue participated in a unique gathering of over sixty scholars in Lukenya, Kenya in January 2009, organized by Globethics.net. The three contributions here by Sumner B. Twiss, Shanta Premawardhana, and Ariane Hentsch Cisneros are not the outcome of the deliberations and discussions there; however, they led to the idea of this focus issue. Each essay incorporates major aspects of the general themes discussed in different groups at the Lukenya meeting: (1) defining …Read more
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8Raymaker offers an interdisciplinary approach to Bernard Lonergan’s work. He presents a series of five “feedback matrices” to situate his work within a historical context. One can best empower Lonergan’s legacy through a correct understanding and implementation of how the data of human consciousness affects all human knowledge and activities
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6Bringing Bernard Lonergan down to earth and into our hearts and communitiesUniversity Press of America. 2018.Focuses on Lonergan's approach to community. Refers to various philosophers and how Lonergan has helped evaluate them with the aim of building a better world responsive to the longings of the human heart
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4A Buddhist-Christian Logic of the Heart: Nishida's Kyoto School and Lonergan's "Spiritual Genome" as World BridgeUniversity Press of America. 2002.A Buddhist-Christian Logic of the Heart explores the philosophies of Being and Nothingness as expounded in the Buddhist and Christian point of view with particular emphasis on the socioethical implication that all human beings, despite vast differences in history, language, and culture, share the cognitional, intentional makeup as emphasized by Nishida and Lonergan
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3Empowering Philosophy and Science with the Art of Love: Lonergan and Deleuze in the Light of Buddhist-Christian EthicsUniversity Press of America. 2006.Philosophy and Science are subject to conflicting interpretations, such as the rules of positivism and analytic thought. Bernard Lonergan and Gilles Deleuze have both assessed such issues in complementary fashion. This book examines their arguments through the application of mathematical theories and Buddhist-Christian ethics in an attempt to bridge the religious-secularist divide exacerbated by postmodernism
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2The book relies on Bernard Lonergan’s method. It addresses today’s religious conflicts in the Middle East which have led to migrations of millions of persons. It systematically explores possible breakthroughs that might help people open their hearts to one another.
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1Pope Francis, Conscience of the WorldHamilton Books. 2019.Pope Francis has set a new tone in papal policies, prioritizing the Good News of the Gospel. and fostering interfaith dialogue. He has won the resoect of youth and the marginalized
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Spiritual Paths to an Ethical and Ecological Global CivilizationPacem in Terris Press. 2013.Reading the signs of the times against a background of cultural-civilization and global financial-ecological conflicts, the book explores a "new cosmology" influenced by Teilhard de Chardin. It upholds evolution as a co-creative artistic-mystical process in contrast to modern secularist-determinist perspectives. It links a global spirituality to a global ethics.
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Empowering Bernard Lonergan's LegacyUniversity Press of America. 2012.This work offers an interdisciplinary approach to Lonergan'swork. It strives to establish foundations for an interdisciplinary ethics and a method for interreligious dialogue. It examines many historical precedents as to how the data of human consciousness affect all human knowledge and activities.
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Attentive, intelligent, rational, and responsible: transforming economics to save the planetMarquette University Press. 2023.The great philosopher and theologian Bernard Lonergan is best known for his transcendental method, but he considered his most important work to be in macroeconomics. The authors lift up his innovative theory as a model of his method, and they propose developments in both fields.
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Empowering Climate Change Strategies with Bernard Lonergan's MethodUniversity Press of America. 2015.The book addresses the climate change crisis through scientific, historical and spiritual lenses. Using Lonergan's functional specialization method,it analyzes data to rebut the claims of climate change deniers. It seeks to motivate and coordinate needed action by persons, groups and nations. Lonergan's method helps us study the past with a view to change the future.
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Steps toward Vatican III: Catholics Pathfinding a Global Spirituality with Islam and BuddshimUniversity Press of America. 2008.In the tradition of Catholic bridge-building the authors strive to bridge modernist secularism with the religious traditions of Christianity, Islam and Buddhism. It offers a "middle-way" based on a global ethic and a global spirituality. The role of community is emphasized as underpinning the book's bridging efforts.
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Some Challenges to a Religious Global Ethics in an Increasingly Secularized WorldIn Ariane Hentsch Cisneros Shanta Premawardhana (ed.), Sharing Values, Globethics.net Series No. 4. pp. 345-362. 2011.The article appeals to Gibson Winter's social ethics and to Bernard Lonergan's method to give perspectives on implementing a method adequate to effectively share values in our challenged, globalizing world.
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Areas of Specialization
| Meta-Ethics |
| Philosophy of Social Science |
Areas of Interest
| Metaphysics |
| Philosophy of Mind |
| Philosophy of Religion |
| Applied Ethics |