Before truth : Lonergan, Aquinas, and the problem of wisdom / Jeremy D. Wilkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilkins, Jeremy D. (Jeremy Daniel), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lonergan, Bernard J. F.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Thomas.

Truth--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Truth.

Wisdom--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Wisdom.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : Catholic University of America Press, 2018.

Summary:

It's frequently said that we live in a "post-truth" age.That obviously can't be true, but it does name a real problem on our hands.Getting things right is hard, especially if they're complicated.It takes preparation, diligence, and honesty.Wisdom, according to Thomas Aquinas, is the quality of right judgment.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Prelude

1. Apprehensions and Misapprehensions

Quarantine

The Subversive

The Paradox

The Real Import

2. A Crisis of Normativity

Science and History

Scientism and Historicism

The Crisis of Christian Thought and Culture

Conclusion

Part 1 - Wisdom as Subject

3. A 'Wisdom of the Concrete'

Wisdom as Self-Surrender

The Question of God

Wisdom as Self-Knowledge and Self-Appropriation

4. Aquinas and Lonergan's Turn to the Subject

Discovery

An 'Introspective' Reading

The 'Logico-Ontological Parallel'

Self-Presence and Self-Knowledge

5. Self-Appropriation as First Philosophy

An Essay in Aid of Rational Self-Appropriation

Completing the Circle

Metaphysics in Practice

Clarification by Contrast

6. Foundational Methodology and Theology

The Notion of Developing Sciences

Transposing Paradigms

Foundational Methodology and the Control of Meaning

Theology as Functional Collaboration

Specialties and Specialists

Transformation and Continuity in Theological Method

Entr'acte

Part 2 - Wisdom as Object

7. Doctrine and Meaning

Narrative and Symbollic Meaning

Propositional Meaning

Systematic Meaning

Dogma and Truth

Dialectic: Process and Analysis

Doctrine in Ongoing Contexts

8. Systematics and Systematicians

Rahner's Critique and Its Context

Three Problems of Order

Systematic Order

Hypothesis and Verification

Necessity and Analogy

Contingency and Fittingness

9. Wisdom Incarnate

The Question

Doctrine and Theory: Interdependent Contexts

Winds of Change

Contemplata aliis tradere: The Vocation of Christ

The Silence of Eternity

Development from Above

Interpreted by Love.

Conclusion

Conclusion and Epilogue

Works Cited

Subject Index

Index of Names.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

0-8132-3148-5

OCLC:

1057893327