Lonergan Institute Publishes New Issue of 'The Lonergan Review': Vol. XV

The Bernard J. Lonergan Institute at Seton Hall University announces the publication of volume XV of its journal, The Lonergan Review, entitled "Cooperating Community." The issue includes an introduction by its editor Jonathan Heaps and articles by Andrew Barrette, Timothy Muldoon, Andrew Beards and Humphrey Uchenna Ani. It also includes a re-printing of an essay by the late Rober M. Doran, S.J. recounting the twin importance of fellow-Jesuits, Daniel Berrigan and Bernard Lonergan, for his own life, work and thought.

Commenting on the issue’s title and content, Heaps said:

For Father Lonergan, community cooperation was the source of community power. Andrew Barrette helps us see, through his consideration of Heinrich Pesch, S.J. as one of Father Lonergan’s early philosophical sources, a young Lonergan looking for ways to articulate how an empowering solidarity can be returned to a community suffering from fragmentation. Timothy Muldoon turns to contemporary American fragmentation and exhorts readers to discover in Lonergan’s notion of “incarnate meaning” a healing spirituality of community. Andrew Beards offers a detailed reading of Max Scheler’s little book Ressentiment to raise questions for us about how best to ground the moral evaluations that mobilize communities to work together. Father Humphrey Uchenna Ani develops a fruitful analogy between Father Lonergan’s philosophy of knowledge with African epistemologies (including the famous communitarian notion of ubuntu, translated as ‘I am because we are’) both to helpfully respond to misunderstandings of these epistemological outlooks and to better characterize the holistic picture of human knowledge that Father Lonergan painted in his work.

Finally, with the generous support of Fordham University Press and the executors of Father Doran’s estate, The Lonergan Review has reprinted Doran’s 2012 essay, ‘Bernard Lonergan and Daniel Berrigan,’ which quite movingly narrates how these two older Jesuits shaped Father Doran’s own intellectual and moral vocation. This year marks the fifth anniversary of Father Doran’s passing and I hope the inclusion of this essay both honors his memory and helps remind readers of the serious social concern that motivated all three of these men in their labors, whether in the library or in the streets.

The issue is now available online and the print version will be mailed to subscribers shortly. An online access subscription to The Lonergan Review provides full-text access to all current and previous issues for a calendar year.

For more information about The Lonergan Review and to subscribe please visit the journal’s distribution website, Philosophy Documentation Center.

About the Bernard J. Lonergan Institute
Founded in 2006 under the direction of Monsignor Richard M. Liddy, the Bernard J. Lonergan Institute at Seton Hall University supports research and scholarship on the work of Bernard Lonergan and publishes The Lonergan Review. It conducts faculty development programs, lectures, and conferences worldwide. For more information about the Institute, please visit the Institute’s webpage.

About The Lonergan Review
Since 2009, The Lonergan Review has published significant interdisciplinary articles in the field of Lonergan studies by both seasoned and new scholars. It is distributed by Philosophy Documentation Center. An “Index of Contents” can be found on The Lonergan Review page of the Lonergan Institute website, accessible here.

For more information, please contact the Editorial Office by phone (973) 275-2431 or via e-mail at lonerganinstitute@shu.edu. 

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