You can find the official itinerary for Lonergan on the Edge here: LoE 2012 Itinerary
Lonergan on the Edge 2012 Itinerary
•September 15, 2012 • Leave a Comment2012 Lonergan on the Edge Call for Papers
•April 9, 2012 • Leave a CommentThe Lonergan Society at Marquette University will be hosting the fourth annual Lonergan on the Edge graduate student conference on September 21st and 22nd (Friday-Saturday), 2012, on the campus of Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There will be no specific theme other than the general interest in Lonergan studies, and papers of any topic related to that interest will be considered. However, on the second day of the conference there will be a panel discussion on “Lonergan and Black Theology,” and papers related to that topic, as well as the intersection of Lonergan’s thought with political theology/philosophy, feminist theology/philosophy, and/or liberation theology, are especially encouraged.
Paper presentations will be a total of 30 minutes: 20 minutes of presentation, 10 minutes for discussion. Proposals should be prepared for blind review (i.e., no names on the paper itself, just the title) and submitted in the form of a 1-page, double-spaced abstract. Email to lonergansociety@gmail.com no later than Monday, July 9th, 2012. Submission results will be announced no later than Monday, July 23rd, 2012.
Keynote Speaker: Eric Morelli, Emory University, Atlanta
Panel Discussion on “Lonergan and Black Theology”
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Featuring Dr. M. Shawn Copeland, Boston College;
Rev. Bryan N. Massingale, STD, Marquette University, Milwaukee;
Dr. Jon Nilson, Loyola University, Chicago;
Duane Loynes, Sr., doctoral student in theology at Marquette University;
David Horstkoetter, doctoral candidate in theology at Marquette University
Lonergan on the Edge 2011
•August 23, 2011 • Leave a CommentA Graduate Student Conference
Inspired by the Thought of Bernard J.F. Lonergan, S.J.
WHEN: Friday, September 16 to Saturday, September 17, 2011
WHERE: Raynor Library Conference Center, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
WHAT: Presentations span both philosophy and theology and place Lonergan’s thought in dialogue with a variety of topics and thinkers, such as human rights, forensic science, liturgical minimalism, phenomenology, Christ’s experience of pain, intellectual and psychological conversion, Balthasar, Aquinas, Sontag, and Rothko. Speakers include graduate students not only from Marquette but also from Boston College, Loyola Marymount University, University of Toronto, University of St. Thomas (Houston), and Loyola University Chicago. (Exact schedule with presenter names and presentation titles and times to follow.)
In addition, on the second day of the conference there will be a panel discussion on “Lonergan as a Reader of Aquinas,” and admission is free. See the attached flyer for details on the panel.
Those who are interested can contact Jeremy Blackwood (jeremy.blackwood@marquette.edu) or Matt Peters (matthew.m.peters@marquette.edu) for more information.
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Fr. Bernard Lonergan, S.J., was a Canadian Jesuit Priest born in Buckingham, Quebec. He was a philosopher-theologian, an economist, and a student of methodology. He taught at Loyola College (Montreal) (now part of Concordia University), Regis College (Toronto), the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Harvard University, and Boston College.
He is the author of Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1957) and Method in Theology (1972). In Insight he worked out what he called a Generalized Empirical Method, and in Method in Theology he showed how this method elucidated the structure and process of work in theology.
“Lonergan is considered by many intellectuals to be the finest philosophic thinker of the twentieth century.”~Time Magazine
http://www.bernardlonergan.com
The Lonergan Society of Marquette University
Lonergan on the Edge 2011
•August 5, 2011 • 2 Comments
We would like to officially welcome our presenters for the 2011 Lonergan on the Edge Conference. See our list below for our presenters and their paper titles. See you September 16-17!
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Brian Himes, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, “Lonergan’s Position on the Natural Desire to See God as Corroborated by Aquinas’s Doctrine of Creation by Participation and His Nominal Definition of God as Ipsum esse”
Brian O. Sigmon, Marquette University, “Psychic Conversion in the Story of Joseph and His Brothers”
Christopher Krall, SJ, Marquette University High School, “Seeking What Ought to Be: An Analysis of the General Empirical Method in the Context of Adolescent Moral Decision Making and the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola”
Daniel D. De Haan, Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas (TX), “Lonergan’s Insight into Aquinas’s Account of Self-cognition in De veritate 10.8”
Eric Mabry, Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas (TX), “Suffering Subjectivity: Aquinas and Lonergan on Christ’s Experience of Pain”
Gregory Floyd, Boston College, “The Reluctant Phenomenologist: Lonergan and the Limits of Phenomenology”
Jason Renken, Loyola University Chicago, “Human Responsibilities Amid Human Rights: Lonergan’s Complementary Reading of Aquinas for Migrants and Refugees”
Jonathan Heaps, Boston University School of Theology, “Sinfulness: A Philosophy of Human Trans-Naturality”
Juliana Vazquez, Marquette University, “Truly Good Medicine: The Promise of Catholic Social Teaching and Lonergan’s Scale of Values for Catholic Healthcare Ethics”
Mary P. Utzerath, Marquette University, “Grace Considered from the Perspective of Lonergan’s Worldview”
Rev. Chris Hadley, SJ, Marquette University, “Balthasar and Lonergan on Distance and Mutual Opposition in Trinitarian Relations”
Ryan Miller, Boston College, “Watching a Play Isn’t Like Taking a Look, Either: Lonergan and Sontag on the Aesthetic Pattern”
Thomas Cappelli, Loyola Marymount University, “The Unfolding of Intellectual Conversion”
Lonergan on the Edge: Online!
•December 3, 2010 • Leave a CommentLonergan on the Edge 2010 is now online over at Lonergan Resource. To hear the proceedings and see the papers, click here.
Lonergan on the Edge: Finalized Itinerary
•September 11, 2010 • Leave a CommentClick here to view our finalized itinerary. Lonergan on the Edge is less than a week away!
Lonergan on the Edge – Teaser Poster
•May 24, 2010 • Leave a Comment
The official call for papers for the conference can be found here.
A note regarding the artwork:
The painting featured is Salvador Dalí’s “St. Peter’s in Rome (Explosion of Mystical Faith in the Midst of a Cathedral)” from 1960. Its original coloration has been modified.
Dalí’s work was chosen in order to grasp several of the conference’s themes. First, the panel discussion regards the intersection between faith and theology, and here we have the very heights of theology (the mystical life) on display. Second, the rush of multiple images held in one space (typical to Dalí) describes the multi-disiplinary nature of “Lonergan on the Edge.” Third, the unifying element of the painting is the cruciform explosion of light in the center and the Marian figure draping the cathedral in her opaque robes – this helps to indicate (in Dalí’s vertiginous style, but with an eye to Lonergan) that we are not seeking the “edges” of Lonergan scholarship simply for the sake of being needlessly avant-garde. Instead, we seek out the contours of knowing in order to synthesize all its varied forms without destroying intrinsic uniqueness.
- Anne M. Carpenter, LSMU Board
