Lonergan: Understanding The Mysteries 

Introduction

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Lonergan, Voegelin and Girard are my areas of interest and the focus of my studies-Mike


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PART ONE: LONERGAN’S ANTHROPOLOGY, A THREEFOLD DIALECTIC OF HISTORY

Chapter 1. Progress: Nature as Good

1.1. Two Views on Nature: Classical and Historical

1.2. Emergent Probability: A Dynamic World Order

1.2.1. Determinism, Indeterminism, and Emergent Probability

1.2.2. Classical and Statistical Law

1.2.3. Schemes of Recurrence: Emergence and Survival

1.2.4. A Dynamic, Interdependent Hierarchy:

Transcendence, Sublation, and Vertical Finality

1.3. Insight and The Self-Correcting Process of Learning

1.3.1. Insight into Insight

1.3.2. Insight and Progress: Common Sense and Science

1.3.3. Common Sense, Sensitivity, and Spontaneous Intersubjectivity

1.4. Transcendental Method: The Larger Picture of Self-Transcendence

1.4.1. Four Levels of Conscious Intentionality

1.4.1.1. Experience

1.4.1.2. Understanding

1.4.1.3. Judgment: Fact and Value

1.4.1.4. Decision, Freedom, and Moral Self-Transcendence

1.4.2. Authenticity: Transcendental Precepts, Notions, and Desire

1.5. The Cooperating Human Community

1.5.1. Love

1.5.2. The Way From Above Downwards

1.5.3. The World Mediated by Meaning and Belief

1.5.4. The Human Good

1.5.5. Realms of Meaning

Chapter 2. Decline: Nature as Fallen

2.1. Sin and Evil

2.2. Bias

2.2.1. Dramatic Bias

2.2.2. Individual Bias: Egoism

2.2.3. Group Bias: Group Egoism

2.2.4. General Bias: Shortsightedness

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2.3. Decline

2.3.1. Shorter Cycle

2.3.2. Longer Cycle

Chapter 3. Redemption: Nature Raised into Supernature

3.1. Grace

3.1.1: The Supernatural—Relatively and Absolutely

3.1.2: Healing and Elevating Grace

3.2. Conversion

3.2.1. Religious Conversion

3.2.1.1. Charity

3.2.1.2. Faith

3.2.1.3. Hope

3.2.2. Moral Conversion

3.2.3. Intellectual Conversion and Myths about Knowing

3.3. A Redemptive Community

3.3.1. Cosmopolis

3.3.2. The Body of Christ

PART TWO: LONERGAN’S SOTERIOLOGY, UNDERSTANDING THE MYSTERY

Chapter 1. Understanding Redemption?

1.1. Mystery

1.2. The Type of Intelligibility Sought

1.2.1. Fittingness, not Necessity

1.2.2. A Dynamic Intelligibility

1.2.3. Incarnate Intelligibility

1.2.4. A Complex Intelligibility

1.2.5. Multiple Intelligibility

1.3. An Analogical Understanding

Chapter 2. Redemption in the New Testament: Basic Analogies

2.1. Redemption as Word, End, and Mediation

2.1.1. The Word, Redemption

2.1.2. Redemption as an End

2.1.3. Redemption as a Mediation of Reconciliation

2.2. Paying a Price

2.3. Vicarious Suffering and Death

2.4. Sacrifice

2.5. Meritorious Obedience

2.6. The Risen Lord and Eternal Priest

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Chapter 3. Christ’s Work as Satisfaction: A Communication Primarily to God

3.1. The Context: Satisfaction vs. Satispassion

3.1.1. Satispassion, a Misunderstanding

3.1.2. Anselm’s Satisfaction

3.2. Lonergan’s Satisfaction: A Communication of Detestation and Sorrow

3.2.1. Satisfaction and Divine Justice

3.2.1.1. The Divine Will, World Order, and Punishment

3.2.1.2. Two Contexts for Punishment:

Retribution and Satisfaction

3.2.2. Satisfaction and Friendship

3.2.2.1. Vicarious Satisfaction and Friendship

3.2.2.2. The Supernatural Friendship of Charity

3.2.3. Christ’s Satisfaction and Christian Satisfaction

Chapter 4. The Law of the Cross: A Communication Primarily to Humanity

4.1. Why a Law of the Cross?

4.1.1. The Four Causes and Redemption: Introducing a Form

4.1.2. A Spiritual Law: Supernatural, Fitting, Effective, and Universal

4.2. Doing Away with Evil through Power vs.

Converting Evil with Love and Wisdom

4.2.1. Clarification by Contrast

4.2.2. An Act of Divine Wisdom and Love

4.3. A Communication Forming Community

4.3.1. The Foundation: The Incarnation

4.3.2. The Law of the Cross as Precept: Christ’s Life

4.3.3. The Law of the Cross as Example: Christ’s Death

4.3.4. The Law of the Cross as Promise: Christ’s Resurrection

4.3.5. Divine Love and the New Society

4.3.5.1. Bringing Out Love by Incarnate Meaning

4.3.5.2. Self-Communication for Life in the Trinity

Conclusion

© Mike Albertson 2017