The fulfilment that is being in love with God is not the product of our knowledge and choice. It is God's gift. Like all being in love, as distinct from particular acts of loving, it is a first principle. So far from resulting from our knowledge and choice, it dismantles and abolishes the horizon within which our knowing and choosing went on, and it sets up a new horizon within which the love of God transvalues our values and the eyes of that love transform our knowing.
No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it. - Bernard Lonergan
No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it.
- Bernard Lonergan
For it is in the field where meaning is constitutive that man's freedom reaches its highest point. There too his responsibility is greatest. There th… - Bernard Lonergan
For it is in the field where meaning is constitutive that man's freedom reaches its highest point. There too his responsibility is greatest. There th…
God is utterly simple; for every composite being necessarily has a cause of its own composition, and so, since God is the first principle of all thin… - Bernard Lonergan
God is utterly simple; for every composite being necessarily has a cause of its own composition, and so, since God is the first principle of all thin…
The fulfilment that is being in love with God is not the product of our knowledge and choice. It is God's gift. Like all being in love, as distinct f… - Bernard Lonergan
The fulfilment that is being in love with God is not the product of our knowledge and choice. It is God's gift. Like all being in love, as distinct f…
In philosophy an individual is becoming himself. - Bernard Lonergan
In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.
Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself. - Bernard Lonergan
Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself.
Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love. - Bernard Lonergan
Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.
The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late. - Bernard Lonergan
The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late.
It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be ackno… - Bernard Lonergan
It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be ackno…
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