The Fragility of Consciousness: Faith, Reason, and the Human Good

Frederick Lawrence

Published by University of Toronto Press 2017

The Fragility of Consciousness

Faith, Reason, and the Human Good

Frederick Lawrence
Edited by: Randall S. Rosenberg and Kevin Vander Schel

In the series Lonergan Studies

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487512934

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About this book

The Fragility of Consciousness is the first published collection of Frederick G. Lawrence’s essays and contains several of his best known writings as well as unpublished work.

Author / Editor information

Lawrence Frederick :

Frederick G. Lawrence is an American hermeneutic philosopher and theologian, and a specialist in Bernard Lonergan, teaching in the Department of Theology at Boston College.
Rosenberg Randall S. :

Randall S. Rosenberg is an assistant professor in the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University.
Vander Schel Kevin :

Kevin M. Vander Schel is an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Gonzaga University.

Reviews

Benjamin J. Hohman:

"Any serious-minded person who has accepted the dual risk of honestly engaging with contemporary thought, on the one hand, and of living into intellectual, moral, and religious inheritance of the broad Christian tradition, on the other hand will find a friend and a guide in these essays. While the erudition of these essays places them beyond most under graduates, decades of students, fellow theologians, and every library will find something new and vital here."

Daniel Lendman:

‘Any who are interested in Lonergan studies will find this text a valuable resource.’

Grant Kaplan:

‘Lawrence is a great scholar whose influence has been felt primarily in the classroom. The Fragility of Consciousness, his first book, lets the wider world know what his students have long had the benefit of.’

R.J. Snell, Director, Center on the University and Intellectual Life, The Witherspoon Institute:

"The Fragility of Consciousness brings together an excellent selection of Lawrence’s work, making available older pieces, those difficult to find, and unpublished essays that very few can access. The volume makes a real contribution, both as an introduction to Lawrence’s thought, to Lonergan studies more generally, and as an intellectual accomplishment in its own right."

Andrzej Wiercinski, Professor of Philosophy of Religion, University of Freiburg:

"Frederick G. Lawrence’s outstanding contribution to philosophy and theology is internationally respected and treasured. The fragility of consciousness reminds us of the essential incompleteness of any human action and as such calls for humility as the conscientious endeavour to rediscover our place in the created universe."

David Tracy, Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Catholic Studies, University of Chicago:

"The cumulative impact of this brilliant collection of essays make two things very clear: first, Professor Lawrence is undoubtedly the foremost interpreter of the highly original and complex work of Bernard Lonergan; second, Professor Lawrence’s own voice has become a major voice in the contemporary debates on the crisis of culture and the resources to deal with that crisis."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Author’s Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Editors’ Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xvii
Part One: The Hermeneutic Revolution and the Crisis of Culture
1. Martin Heidegger and the Hermeneutic Revolution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
2. Hans-Georg Gadamer and the Hermeneutic Revolution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
3. Gadamer and Lonergan on Augustine’s Verbum Cordis – the Heart of Postmodern Hermeneutics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
4. A Jewish and a Christian Approach to the Problematic of Jerusalem and Athens: Leo Strauss and Bernard Lonergan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
5. Voegelin and Gadamer: Continental Philosophers Inspired by Plato and Aristotle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
6. “Transcendence from Within”: Benedict XVI and Jürgen Habermas on the Dialogue between Secular Reason and Religious Faith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Part Two: Theology and the Human Good
7. The Fragility of Consciousness: Lonergan and the Postmodern Concern for the Other Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
8. The Recovery of Theology in a Political Mode: The Example of Ernest L. Fortin, AA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
9. The Economic Good of Order and Culture in Relation to Solidarity, Subsidiarity, and Responsibility Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	296
10. The Human Good and Christian Conversation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	326
11. Grace and Friendship: Postmodern Political Theology and God as Conversational Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
12. Growing in Faith as the Eyes of Being-in-Love with God Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	384
The Writings of Frederick G. Lawrence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 456

eBook

Published: January 13, 2017
ISBN: 9781487512934