Lonergan on Conversion: The Development of a Notion

A general introduction to the various contexts or stages in the development of Bernard Lonergan’s thought. Specifically, it is an hermeneutical investigation of his notion of conversion as foundational for contemporary theological method. The author focuses on Lonergan’s major works, Grace and Freedom, Verbum, Insight, and Method in Theology, and reconstructs the several successive contexts for each of these works. Contents: The Early PeriodoThomism and the Systematic Exigence; The Middle PeriodoThe Problem of Integration and the Critical Exigence; The Later PeriodoTheology and the Methodical Exigence; ConversionoSummary and Criticisms.