The Fragility of Consciousness : Faith, Reason, and the Human Good / Frederick Lawrence; Randall S. Rosenberg, Kevin Vander Schel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawrence, Frederick G., author.

Contributor:

Rosenberg, Randall S., editor.

Vander Schel, Kevin, editor.

Series:

Lonergan studies.

Lonergan Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hermeneutics--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Hermeneutics.

Theology.

Faith and reason.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (453 pages).

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"The Fragility of Consciousness is the first published collection of his essays and contains several of his best known writings as well as unpublished work. The essays in this volume exhibit a long interdisciplinary engagement with the relationship between faith and reason in the context of the crisis of culture that has marked twentieth- and twenty-first century thought and practice. Frederick G. Lawrence, with his profound and generous commitment to the intellectual life of the church, has produced a body of work that engages with Heidegger, Gadamer, Habermas, Ricoeur, Strauss, Voegelin, and Benedict XVI among others. These essays also explore various themes such as the role of religion in a secular age, political theology, economics, neo-Thomism, Christology, and much more. In an age marked by social, cultural, political, and ecclesial fragmentation, Lawrence models a more generous way--one that prioritizes friendship, conversation, and understanding above all else."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Martin Heidegger and the hermeneutic revolution

Hans-Georg Gadamer and the hermeneutic revolution

Gadamer and Lonergan on Augustine's Verbum Cordis: the heart of postmodern hermeneutics

A Jewish and Christian approach to the problematic of Jerusalem and Athens: Leo Strauss and Bernard Lonergan

Voegelin and Gadamer: continental philosophers inspired by Plato and Aristotle

"Transcendence from Within": Benedict XVI and Jürgen Habermas on the dialogue between secular reason and religious faith

The fragility of consciousness: Lonergan and the postmodern concern for the other

The recovery of theology in a political mode: the example of Ernest L. Fortin, AA

The economic good of order and culture in relation to solidarity, subsidiarity, and responsibility

The human good and Christian conversion

Grace and friendship: postmodern political theology and God as conversational

Growing in faith as the eyes of being-in-love with God.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Aug 2018)

ISBN:

1-4875-1294-5

1-4875-1293-7

OCLC:

1054880264