The ‘Not
Numerous Center’: For Insight’s 50th Anniversary
and Method in Theology’s 35th Anniversary
34nd Annual Lonergan Workshop
June 17-22, 2007, Boston College
Classical culture cannot be jettisoned
without being replaced; and what replaces it, cannot but run counter
to classical expectations. There is bound to be formed a solid
right that is determined to live in a world that no longer exists.
There is bound to be formed a scattered left, captivated by now
this, now that new development, exploring now this, now that new
possibility. But what will count is a perhaps not numerous
center, big enough to be at home in both the old and the new, painstaking
enough to work out one by one the transitions to be made, strong
enough to refuse half-measures and insist on complete solutions
even though it has to wait. [B. Lonergan, "Dimensions
of Meaning," Collection, Collected Works 4, 244-5]
Schedule of Probabilities
Sunday, 17 June Fulton
511, 7:30 pm
Greg
Maillet (Atlantic Baptist University, Nova Scotia): “‘At
the still point’ where ‘there is only the dance’: Logos,
Lonergan, and T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets”
Monday, 18 June
Morning, 9-10:30 am McGuinn 121
Richard Liddy (Catholic Studies, Seton
Hall University): “Startling
Strangeness: A Memoir”
John Dadosky (Theology, Regis College, Toronto): “Centering
the Church: A Development in Ecclesiology based on Balthasar
and Lonergan”
*Afternoon Workshop Announcements
Coffee Break, 10;30
11 am: Michael McCarthy (Emeritus, Philosophy, Vassar College): “Towards
a Catholic Christianity: A Personal Narrative”
Afternoon Workshops 2-3:30 pm (Classrooms in Campion
Hall)
4 pm McGuinn 121
Patrick H. Byrne (Philosophy,
Boston College): “Foundations
of ‘The Ethics of Embryonic Stem Cell Research’”
Evening, 7:30
Fulton 511
Joseph A. Komonchak (Theology & Religious
Studies, Catholic University of America) “Lonergan
and Post-conciliar Ecclesiology”
Tuesday, 19 June
Morning, 9:30-10:30 am McGuinn 121
Phillip Berryman (Translator, Journalist): “Consilience?
E.O. Wilson, Lonergan, and other Proposals for the Unity/Differentiation
of Knowledge”
Sarah R. Borden (Philosophy, Wheaton College): “Edith
Stein's Response to the Darwinian Challenge”
Coffee Break, 10:30
11 am: Charles C. Hefling (Theology, Boston College): “Lonergan,
Schleiermacher, and Christian Systematic Theology: Possibly Relevant
Questions”
Afternoon, 4 pm McGuinn 121
Mendo Castro Henriquez (Philosophy, Catholic University, Lisbon): “Insight and
the Geopolitical Situation”
Evening, 7:30 Fulton 511
Jennifer FitzGerald (Emerita, English, Queens
University, Belfast) “‘The Platonic Word becoming
flesh’: the Irish medievalist, Helen Waddell”
Wednesday, 20 June
Morning, 9:30-10:30 am McGuinn 121
Gerard Whelan, SJ (Pastoral Theology, Gregorian University): “Attempting
Redemptive Praxis in Parish Life: Reflections from Nairobi, Kenya”
Jeremy Wilkins (Theology, St Thomas University,
Houston): “The Transition
from a Theoretical to a Methodical Account of Grace: Being
at Home in the Old and the New”
Coffee Break, 10:30
11 am: M. Shawn Copeland (Theology, Boston College): “Edging
Toward the Center”
Afternoon Excursion to the Museum of
Fine Arts Bus
leaving Lonergan Center at 4 p.m.
Evening, 7:30 Fulton 511
Greg Lauzon (Audio Technician, Musician): “Emerging
Probabilities and the Operators of Musical Evolution”
Thursday, 21 June
Morning, 9:30-10:30 am McGuinn 121
William Mathews, SJ (Milltown Park, Dublin): “Kant,
Lonergan and Intersubjectivity”
Michael Sharkey (Philosophy, University
of WisconsinPlatteville): “Heidegger,
Lonergan, and the Intention of Being”
Coffee Break, 10:30
11 am: Mark D. Morelli (Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University): “Going
Beyond Idealism”
Afternoon, 4 pm McGuinn 121
Robert M. Doran, SJ (Theology, Marquette University): “Report
on a Work in Progress”
Workshop Eucharist 6:30
pm
7:30 Fulton 511
Panel Discussion: “TheConflict and
Insight Project”*
Kenneth Melchin (Christian Ethics, St Paul University., Ottawa):
Moderator
Cheryl Picard (Director, Center for Conflict Education
and Research, Carleton University, Ottawa): “Insight Mediation”
Andrea Bartoli (Community of Sant’Egidio,
Columbia University, NY): “Insight and Deadly Conflicts”
James Robertson Price III (Shriver Center, University of
Maryland): “Method in Peacebuilding”
Reception
Friday, 22 June
Morning, 9:30-10:30 am McGuinn 121
William E. Murnion (PhilosophyWorks, Bellvale, NY): “Shankara
and Aquinas: A Case Study in Comparative Ethics”
Paul LaChance (Theology, College of St Elizabeth,
Morristown, NJ): “Theology as Praxis in Augustine's Confessions: A
Community Founded on the Humanity of Christ”
Coffee Break, 10:30
11 am: David Coghlan, (Organization Development, School of
Business, Trinity College, Dublin): “Action
Research as a Method of Praxis”
Hugo Meynell (Emeritus, Religious Studies, University
of Calgary): “Casta Meretrix: The
Extreme Center”
Afternoon, 2 pm McGuinn 121
Phyllis Wallbank (Associate of Montessori, Founder, Gatehouse
School, London): “Educating Adolescents”
6:00 pm Pizza Party—Gabelli Lounge
*Afternoon Workshops 2-3:30 pm Monday-Thursday
(Classrooms in Campion Hall)
Frank Braio (Philosophy, Pace University) Insight
Joseph Flanagan, SJ (Philosophy, Boston College)
Culture and Conversion
Richard Grallo (Psychology, Audrey Cohen School, Metropolitan
College of NY) Lonergan and Psychlogy
Paul LaChance (Theology, College of St Elizabeth, Morristown,
NJ) Lonergan and the Dialogue with Orthodox Christianity
Martin Lopez-Calva (Education, Puebla, Mexico)
Lonergan and Education
Alfredo MacLaughlin (Philosophy, Loyola University, Chicago)
New Horizons in Lonergan Studies: Graduate Student Workshop
Morag McConville (President, Genmora Consulting)
Business and Ethics
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