The Divine Initiative: Grace, World-Order, and Human Freedom in the Early Writings of Bernard Lonergan (Lonergan Studies) - Hardcover

Stebbins, J. Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802004644 ISBN 13: 9780802004642

Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 1995

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Bernard Lonergan spent much of his early career grappling with Thomas Aquinas' monumental effort at `thinking out the Christian universe.' What he learned from Aquinas reinforced the basis of a theological paradigm whose main lines would remain intact throughout all of his subsequent work.

The Divine Initiative explores Lonergan's comprehensive position on the doctrines of grace and providence formulated in his early writings, paying particular attention to the unpublished treatise De ente supernaturali (On Supernatural Being). J. Michael Stebbins' investigation uncovers a theological synthesis of remarkable assimilative capacity. A key to Lonergan's position is his sophisticated understanding of the structured but dynamic process that characterizes the order of the created universe. Lonergan characterizes grace as a particular instance of God's providential activity in human living and in the cosmos as a whole. On the strength of his inquiries into Aquinas' positions on the meaning of causality, free will, sin, and divine transcendence, Lonergan explains why God's governance of all created activity is compatible with the contingence of created events in general and with human freedom in particular. Lonergan's conclusions are made possible by his insistence that the elements of Thomist metaphysics are grounded in corresponding activities of human cognitional process.

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J. Michael Stebbins is Senior Fellow of the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University and Director of the Arrupe Program in Social Ethics for Business.

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'In his culminating chapters Stebbins brilliantly displays the power of Lonergan's method in its ability to handle such complex issues as the Molinist/Baªezian controversies, divine and human causality, freedom, sin, and God's transcendent providence.'

'Stebbins understands the material so thoroughly that he is able to link Lonergan's claims in fresh ways, offer original examples, and thus teach the reader what Lonergan really is getting at.'

'The Divine Initiative is an invaluable resource and a major contribution to Lonergan studies...Stebbins has laid out [the] material...with a thoroughness and clarity that will be extraordinarily valuable to many people.'

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0802004644
• ISBN 13: 9780802004642
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
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