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

www.bernardlonergan.com

The Lonergan Society of Marquette University

http://lonergansociety.wordpress.com

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”

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

The conference will take place September 17^th – 19^th, 2010, on the campus of Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Paper presentations will be a total of 30 minutes: 20 minutes for the paper, and 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 of the project.  Email to lonergansociety@gmail.com no later than 5pm, Monday, July 5, 2010. Submission results will be announced by July 19, 2010.

Lonergan on the Edge 2010 Flyer

Abstracts for all the presentations can be found here.  For more photos, or for a copy of a photo from your own presentation, please email the webmaster.

• Greg Lauzan, Lamenting at the Abattoir: Meditations through Rhythm
• Thomas Cappelli, Lonergan and Neural Correlates of Consciousness
• Christopher Krall, Bernard Lonergan and Thomas Kuhn: The Advance of Knowledge
• Andrew Barrette, Lonergan and the Break from Mythic Consciousness: The Position of the Muse and the Emergence of Responsibility
• Jen Kendall, Ethics, Emergent Probability and Freedom
• Paul Camacho, Lonergan and Kant: A Dialectic of the Human Good
• Clayton Shoppa, Earth and Residue
• Eric Morelli, Understanding Insight and Attending to Experience: A Dialectical Examination of Two Articles
  by Frederick E. Crowe
• Paul Monson, Lonergan’s Method and the Rule of St. Benedict
• Gregorio Montejo, The Dynamic Structure of Human Consciousness in the Theandric Person of Christ According to St. Thomas Aquinas and Bernard J. F. Lonergan
• Kristen Carlson, Edith Stein’s Contribution to Lonergan’s Account of Individual Bias
• Byron B. George, Lonergan and Jus Post Bellum
• Ronan Curnow, Understanding of the Preferential Option for the Poor within Bernard Lonergan’s Historical-Theological Framework
• Jeremy Blackwood & David Horstkoetter, Lonergan and Metz in Dialectical Conversation

Any changes/updates will be posted on this website, so check back often.

Congratulations to all those accepted, and a warm welcome to all those who plan to attend our conference.

As the semester roils to a halt, a few announcements regarding the Lonergan Society here at Marquette:

1) We won’t be meeting again this semester, but I’ll soon be scheduling readings for the next academic year. If anyone has suggestions on what they would like to read from Lonergan next year, please email me!

2) If anyone has any lingering desires to go to the workshop out at Boston this June, it’s not too late! Let me or Jeremy know.

3) AND….(drumroll please)….we now have, courtesy of the magnificent Anne Carpenter, our very own Lonergan Society website. It has a short blurb about our group, a links page, and a place for all announcements and news. Check it out at http://lonergansociety.wordpress.com/ Right up on the front page right now you’ll see our call for papers for the Lonergan on the Edge conference that we are hosting this September 18-20. The site looks great and will serve us well–thank you, Anne!

Best end-of-semester wishes,
Juli