Challenge of Lonergan’s Thought

Andrew Beards is lecturer and tutor at Allen Hall Seminary, where he teaches on the Pontifical degree course offered with St Mary's University, Twickenham. He is the author of Objectivity and Historical Understanding (1997), Method in Metaphysics: Lonergan and the Future of Analytical Philosophy (2008), Insight and Analysis (2010), Philosophy the Quest for Truth and Meaning (2010), and Lonergan, Meaning and Method (2018).

• PrefaceChapter 1: Newman, Lonergan and the dialectic of epistemology IChapter 2: Newman, Lonergan and the dialectic of epistemology IIChapter 3: The Irreducibility of the Good: G. E. Moore and Bernard LonerganChapter 4: Chapter 4: Epistemic Traction: Critical Realism, Quine and Gila SherChapter 5: F. Nietzsche: A Master of Modern and post-modern suspicionsChapter 6: Cathedrals of Light: Chauvet after HeideggerChapter 7: Method in Theology a half century onNotesBibliography Index

The breadth of Beards' engagement with 19th century and contemporary philosophers – from Newman to Heidegger, from Nietzsche to G. E. Moore and Gila Sher — demonstrates the depth of Bernard Lonergan's epistemic foundations. Aware of these depths, Beards is also aware of the heights to which Lonergan aspired and attained in connecting St. Thomas's explicit appreciation of theology as a science with the foundations he excavated and made explicit in the Verbum articles and Insight. Beards continues to be a trustworthy contemporary custodian of Lonergan's legacy.