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 things, there can be no real composition whatever in God. Now, in an utterly simple being there can be nothing that is not that simple being itself. In God, therefore, whatever really is, is the same as God, is the same as that which is, is the same as that which subsists, and hence necessarily subsists.
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…
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.
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.
Faith ... is a conscious apprehension of something inevident, something which unlike this desk and this chair is not seen to be there, even if it ent… - Bernard Lonergan
Faith ... is a conscious apprehension of something inevident, something which unlike this desk and this chair is not seen to be there, even if it ent…
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.
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…
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