Bernard Lonergan

(1904–1984) Theologian

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Bernard Lonergan was a theologian.

Quick Facts About Bernard Lonergan

Born: December 17, 1904
Died: November 26, 1984
Profession: Theologian

About Bernard Lonergan

[Wikidata] Canadian philosopher and theologian (1904–1984)... | [Wikipedia] Bernard Joseph Francis Lonergan was a Canadian Jesuit priest, philosopher, and theologian regarded by many as one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century.

Quotes by Bernard Lonergan

Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be…

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Broads

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It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences…

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Able

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Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.

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Being responsible

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In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

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Becoming

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For it is in the field where meaning is constitutive that man's freedom reaches its highest point. There too his responsibility is…

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Emergence

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The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late.

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Breathless

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No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it.

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Ifs

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Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always…

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Achievement

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“To demand the absolute and to be content with absolutely nothing else results in a skepticism.”

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Doubt

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Faith ... is a conscious apprehension of something inevident, something which unlike this desk and this chair is not seen to be…

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Apprehension

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Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It…

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Conclusion

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The fulfilment that is being in love with God is not the product of our knowledge and choice. It is God's gift.…

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Abolish

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God is utterly simple; for every composite being necessarily has a cause of its own composition, and so, since God is the…

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All things

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Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself.

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Choice

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If one denies that, when the meaning is true, then the meant is what is so, one rejects propositional truth. If the…

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Deny

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“One cannot play fast and loose with what one knows to be true.”

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Realism

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