Fragility of Consciousness

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

• Frequently Cited WorksForeword by Frederick G. LawrenceEditor’s Introduction Part One: The Hermeneutic Revolution and the Crisis of Culture1. Martin Heidegger and the Hermeneutic Revolution 2. Hans-Georg Gadamer and the Hermeneutic Revolution 3. Gadamer and Lonergan on Augustine’s Verbum Cordis – the Heart of Postmodern Hermeneutics 4. A Jewish and a Christian Approach to the Problematic of Jerusalem and Athens: Leo Strauss and Bernard Lonergan 5. Voegelin and Gadamer: Continental Philosophers Inspired by Plato and Aristotle 6. Transcendence from Within: Benedict XVI and Jürgen Habermas on the Dialogue between Secular Reason and Religious Faith Part Two: Theology and the Human Good7. The Fragility of Consciousness: Lonergan and the Postmodern Concern for the Other 8. The Recovery of Theology in a Political Mode: The Example of Ernest L. Fortin, AA 9. The Economic Good of Order and Culture in Relation to Solidarity, Subsidiarity, and Responsibility 10. The Human Good and Christian Conversation 11. Grace and Friendship: Postmodern Political Theology and God as Conversation 12. Growing in Faith as the Eyes of Being-in-Love with God The Writings of Frederick G. LawrenceIndex

‘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.’- Grant Kaplan (First Things July 2017) ‘Any who are interested in Lonergan studies will find this text a valuable resource.’- Daniel Lendman (Reading Religion July 2017) "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."- Benjamin J. Hohman (Horizons: The Journal of the College of Theological Society June 2018)