NEW WORKS
Prayers at Anchor
Prayers while at anchor to get our bearings. 46 pages.
Prayers under Sail
Prayers while navigating troubled waters. 60 pages.
Lonergan on 'Presence', 'Holiness', and 'Beauty'
For college-level readers, a presentation of Lonergan's views on 'presence," 'holiness,' and 'beauty.' Included are observations of the development of these categories and their interconnections in the context of theological method. 8 pages.
Mission & Vision in Catholic Colleges
A "webinar" regarding the mission and vision of Siena Heights University. Included is a proposal to incorporate the virtue of interdependence among the University's students, faculty, and staff. The presentation gives specific examples in the setting of a Catholic colleges and proposals for mission and vision statements that better align with the Christian and Catholic faith of its founders. 17 pages, drawings and footnotes included.
Rights
An account of the views of Plato and Aristotle that a "natural right" is a demand on society to support right living, and an exploration of Bernard Lonergan's "Natural Right and Historical Mindedness" and Leo Strauss' Natural Right and History. The difference between natural rights and legal rights. The list of natural rights from Pacem in Terris. An examination of "demanding our rights," of "animal rights," and of "fetal rights." A critique of "self-interest" and a promotion of "self-transcendence" as the fundamental natural right. The roles of intellectual, moral, affective, and psychic conversions. Twenty-three pages, footnotes included.
Love, Hard Work, Joy
An exploration of how our experiences of love, hard work, and joy go together. Confirmations of the unity of these experiences in biblical passages. 3 pages.
Critical Imagining
A habit of critical imagining expands critical-mindedness beyond the range of what is named critical thinking. Historical and sociological studies reveal five major "world dramas" by which individuals and entire cultures imagine their own freedom and destinies. This article examines the dramas of fate, groupism, reason, morality, and grace. 6 pages
Five Key Terms
Explanations of five key terms college-level students need to understand : Understanding, Horizon, Hermeneutics, Authors, and History. Brief definitions and concrete examples included, plus footnotes and one drawing. 5 pages.
Prayers while at anchor to get our bearings. 46 pages.
Prayers under Sail
Prayers while navigating troubled waters. 60 pages.
Lonergan on 'Presence', 'Holiness', and 'Beauty'
For college-level readers, a presentation of Lonergan's views on 'presence," 'holiness,' and 'beauty.' Included are observations of the development of these categories and their interconnections in the context of theological method. 8 pages.
Mission & Vision in Catholic Colleges
A "webinar" regarding the mission and vision of Siena Heights University. Included is a proposal to incorporate the virtue of interdependence among the University's students, faculty, and staff. The presentation gives specific examples in the setting of a Catholic colleges and proposals for mission and vision statements that better align with the Christian and Catholic faith of its founders. 17 pages, drawings and footnotes included.
Rights
An account of the views of Plato and Aristotle that a "natural right" is a demand on society to support right living, and an exploration of Bernard Lonergan's "Natural Right and Historical Mindedness" and Leo Strauss' Natural Right and History. The difference between natural rights and legal rights. The list of natural rights from Pacem in Terris. An examination of "demanding our rights," of "animal rights," and of "fetal rights." A critique of "self-interest" and a promotion of "self-transcendence" as the fundamental natural right. The roles of intellectual, moral, affective, and psychic conversions. Twenty-three pages, footnotes included.
Love, Hard Work, Joy
An exploration of how our experiences of love, hard work, and joy go together. Confirmations of the unity of these experiences in biblical passages. 3 pages.
Critical Imagining
A habit of critical imagining expands critical-mindedness beyond the range of what is named critical thinking. Historical and sociological studies reveal five major "world dramas" by which individuals and entire cultures imagine their own freedom and destinies. This article examines the dramas of fate, groupism, reason, morality, and grace. 6 pages
Five Key Terms
Explanations of five key terms college-level students need to understand : Understanding, Horizon, Hermeneutics, Authors, and History. Brief definitions and concrete examples included, plus footnotes and one drawing. 5 pages.