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slide1. 1 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion In the broken world
of today, how can we
transform Lonergan’s
idea to facilitate
reconciliation?
Gerard Whelan SJ<br>
slide2. 2 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Talk tomorrow
A Discerning Church: Pope Francis and Theological Method
Part 1: The theological method of Pope Francis
Part II: Bernard Lonergan, foundations for interdisciplinary method<br>
slide3. 3 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Talk today
Part 1: Reconciliation as a Christian Theme
Part 2: Reconciliation in Lonergan
Relvance for Chinese University and for Hong Kong?<br>
slide4. 4 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Two stories from Dublin
Luminous statues
Tenants’ rights<br>
slide5. 5 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion A story from Kenya
Mountain View security gates<br>
slide6. 6 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Outline of talk today
Part 1: Reconciliation as a Christian Theme
Part 2: Reconciliation in Lonergan
Relvance for Chinese University and for Hong Kong?<br>
slide7. 7 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Part 1: Reconciliation as a Christian Theme
St. Paul
Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
Theories of active non-violence
Jesuits: Universal Apostolic Preferences<br>
slide8. 8 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion St. Paul
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation (2 Cor 5:17-18.)<br>
slide9. 9 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
First Week:
God’s unconditional love, my brokenness, my sin (the sin of the worls), Repentence, forgiveness
The rest of the Exercises
Answering the call of Christ the King<br>
slide10. 10 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Active non-violent movement
Struggle for social change without opting for violence
Daniel O’Connell, Henry David Thoreau 1840
Mahatma Gandhi 1940s
Martin Luther King 1960s
The “yellow revolution,” Philippines, 1986<br>
slide11. 11 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Jesuit priorities
1975 “Faith and Justice”
Temptations of Marxism
2019 Universal Apostolic Preferences
Spirituality
Reconciliaton
Youth
Environment<br>
slide12. 12 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Reconciliation in Pope Francis
Argentina 1970s a divided society
Theology of the People, a non-Marxist theology of social change
Romantic philosophy, “The king and the peasant are part of the “people” (Herder 1770)<br>
slide13. 13 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Four Pastoral Principles
Time is greater than space.
Unity prevails over conflict.
Realities are more important than ideas
The whole is greater than the parts.
(EG 224-234)<br>
slide14. 14 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Unity prevails over conflict.
“conflict cannot be ignored or concealed”
“face conflict head on, to resolve it and to make it a link in the chain of a new process.” (Evangelii Gaudium, 226)<br>
slide15. 15 A Discerning Church: Pope Francis and Theological Method Our Lady
Untier of Knots<br>
slide16. 16 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Part II: Reconciliation
in Bernard Lonergan<br>
slide17. 17 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Conversion at the basis of philosophy
Neo scholasticism
Analytical philosophy
Newman
Alternative to
Karl Marx<br>
slide18. 18 A Discerning Church: Pope Francis and Theological Method Intellectual conversion<br>
slide19. 19 A Discerning Church: Pope Francis and Theological Method Authenticity
Decide
Judge
Insight
Experience<br>
slide20. 20 A Discerning Church: Pope Francis and Theological Method A heuristic
theory of
history<br>
slide21. 21 A Discerning Church: Pope Francis and Theological Method Theology mediates
between a culture and
the significance and role
of a religious tradition
within that culture<br>
slide22. 22 A Discerning Church: Theological Method Divine solution for the problem of evil
Be responsible Be rational
Be intelligent
Be attentive<br>
slide23. 23 A Discerning Church: Pope Francis and Theological Method Religious conversion is being
grasped by ultimate concern. It
is other-worldly falling in love.
It is total and permanent self-
surrender without conditions,
qualifications, reservations. . .
for Christians it is God’s Love
flooding our hearts through the
Holy Spirit given to us.<br>
slide24. 24 A Discerning Church: Theological Method Method in Theology<br>
slide25. 25 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Theology bears fruit in communications
Drawing on the
virtual resources of
the culture to
mediate redemption
in history<br>
slide26. 26 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Robert Doran expands on Lonergan
Psychic conversion as well as intellectual conversion<br>
slide27. 27 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Religious conversion
and the unconscious
René Girard
Christ as scapegoat<br>
slide28. 28 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Wounded healers
A preferential
Option for the
poor<br>
slide29. 29 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion The law of the cross
Returning good for evil
Active non-violence and
the redemption of history<br>
slide30. 30 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Conclusion: Reconciliation as central to the Centre for Catholic Studies
Prayers for Hong Kong<br>
of today, how can we
transform Lonergan’s
idea to facilitate
reconciliation?
Gerard Whelan SJ<br>
slide2. 2 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Talk tomorrow
A Discerning Church: Pope Francis and Theological Method
Part 1: The theological method of Pope Francis
Part II: Bernard Lonergan, foundations for interdisciplinary method<br>
slide3. 3 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Talk today
Part 1: Reconciliation as a Christian Theme
Part 2: Reconciliation in Lonergan
Relvance for Chinese University and for Hong Kong?<br>
slide4. 4 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Two stories from Dublin
Luminous statues
Tenants’ rights<br>
slide5. 5 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion A story from Kenya
Mountain View security gates<br>
slide6. 6 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Outline of talk today
Part 1: Reconciliation as a Christian Theme
Part 2: Reconciliation in Lonergan
Relvance for Chinese University and for Hong Kong?<br>
slide7. 7 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Part 1: Reconciliation as a Christian Theme
St. Paul
Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
Theories of active non-violence
Jesuits: Universal Apostolic Preferences<br>
slide8. 8 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion St. Paul
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation (2 Cor 5:17-18.)<br>
slide9. 9 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
First Week:
God’s unconditional love, my brokenness, my sin (the sin of the worls), Repentence, forgiveness
The rest of the Exercises
Answering the call of Christ the King<br>
slide10. 10 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Active non-violent movement
Struggle for social change without opting for violence
Daniel O’Connell, Henry David Thoreau 1840
Mahatma Gandhi 1940s
Martin Luther King 1960s
The “yellow revolution,” Philippines, 1986<br>
slide11. 11 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Jesuit priorities
1975 “Faith and Justice”
Temptations of Marxism
2019 Universal Apostolic Preferences
Spirituality
Reconciliaton
Youth
Environment<br>
slide12. 12 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Reconciliation in Pope Francis
Argentina 1970s a divided society
Theology of the People, a non-Marxist theology of social change
Romantic philosophy, “The king and the peasant are part of the “people” (Herder 1770)<br>
slide13. 13 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Four Pastoral Principles
Time is greater than space.
Unity prevails over conflict.
Realities are more important than ideas
The whole is greater than the parts.
(EG 224-234)<br>
slide14. 14 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Unity prevails over conflict.
“conflict cannot be ignored or concealed”
“face conflict head on, to resolve it and to make it a link in the chain of a new process.” (Evangelii Gaudium, 226)<br>
slide15. 15 A Discerning Church: Pope Francis and Theological Method Our Lady
Untier of Knots<br>
slide16. 16 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Part II: Reconciliation
in Bernard Lonergan<br>
slide17. 17 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Conversion at the basis of philosophy
Neo scholasticism
Analytical philosophy
Newman
Alternative to
Karl Marx<br>
slide18. 18 A Discerning Church: Pope Francis and Theological Method Intellectual conversion<br>
slide19. 19 A Discerning Church: Pope Francis and Theological Method Authenticity
Decide
Judge
Insight
Experience<br>
slide20. 20 A Discerning Church: Pope Francis and Theological Method A heuristic
theory of
history<br>
slide21. 21 A Discerning Church: Pope Francis and Theological Method Theology mediates
between a culture and
the significance and role
of a religious tradition
within that culture<br>
slide22. 22 A Discerning Church: Theological Method Divine solution for the problem of evil
Be responsible Be rational
Be intelligent
Be attentive<br>
slide23. 23 A Discerning Church: Pope Francis and Theological Method Religious conversion is being
grasped by ultimate concern. It
is other-worldly falling in love.
It is total and permanent self-
surrender without conditions,
qualifications, reservations. . .
for Christians it is God’s Love
flooding our hearts through the
Holy Spirit given to us.<br>
slide24. 24 A Discerning Church: Theological Method Method in Theology<br>
slide25. 25 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Theology bears fruit in communications
Drawing on the
virtual resources of
the culture to
mediate redemption
in history<br>
slide26. 26 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Robert Doran expands on Lonergan
Psychic conversion as well as intellectual conversion<br>
slide27. 27 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Religious conversion
and the unconscious
René Girard
Christ as scapegoat<br>
slide28. 28 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Wounded healers
A preferential
Option for the
poor<br>
slide29. 29 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion The law of the cross
Returning good for evil
Active non-violence and
the redemption of history<br>
slide30. 30 Reconciliation: Lonergan’s Idea of Conversion Conclusion: Reconciliation as central to the Centre for Catholic Studies
Prayers for Hong Kong<br>