Celebrating the 450th Jesuit Jubilee

33nd Annual Lonergan Workshop
June 18-23, 2006, Boston College

Since September of 1525, when they were 19 years old, Francis Xavier and Peter Faber (one a Basque, the other from Savoy) had been college roommates in the College Saint-Barbe in the University of Paris, when all of a sudden [in the Fall of 1529] destiny climbed the stairs of Sainte-Barbe in a shape as strange and unrecognizable as it ever has taken*–Ignatius Loyola, 14 years older than they, and already a seasoned (and injured) soldier, pilgrim, and spiritual enthusiast. These three were the core of a total of 7 original companions who would eventually become the Compania de Jesus/Society of Jesus/Jesuits. This year the Jesuits throughout the world celebrate these significant birthdays, along with the 450th anniversary of the death of Ignatius.
(July 31, 1555). [John Howard, SJ *James Broderick, SJ, St. Francis Xavier]

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SUNDAY, June 18

7:30 p.m. McGuinn 121

• Robert M. Doran, SJ: Tribute to Frederick Crowe’s Christ and History
  “ Ignatian Themes in the Thought of Bernard Lonergan: Revisiting a Topic That Deserves Further Reflection”

MONDAY, JUNE 19

9-12 a.m. McGuinn 121

• John W. Howard, SJ: “Peter Faber”
• Announcements for Afternoon Workshops
• Coffee
• Kevin J. Burke, SJ: “Ignacio Ellacuria, SJ”

2-3:30 p.m. Afternoon Workshops [in assigned classrooms]

4-5:15 p.m. McGuinn 121

• Colin Maloney “Lonergan & Ignatian Discernment”
• Peter Bisson, SJ “The Emergence of Interiority in the Society of Jesus: the Post-Conciliar General Congregations”

7:30 p.m. Fulton 511

• Bill Mathews on Lonergan’s Quest

TUESDAY, JUNE 20

9-12 a.m. McGuinn 121

• Nikolaus Wandinger “Raymund Schwager, SJ: Dramatic Theology”
• Roman Siebenrock
  “ Gratia Christi: The Heart of the Theology of Karl Rahner SJ -Ignatian Influences in the Codex "De Gratia Christi" (1937/38) and its Importance for the Development of his Work”
• Coffee
• Stephan Loos “European Jesuits and the Modernist Controversy”

2-3:30 p.m. Afternoon Workshops

4 –5:15 p.m. McGuinn 121

• Paul Kidder "Thinking with Father Richardson"
• William J. Richardson, SJ Response

7:30 p.m. Fulton 511

• Ivo Coelho, SDB “Francis Xavier, Lonergan and the Problem of Missions Today”

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21

9-12 a.m. McGuinn 121

• Gilles Mongeau, SJ, “Thomas Aquinas & Lonergan”
• John Robertson
  “ Hermeneutics, Critical Realism, and the Aims of Jesus: The Contribution of Ben F. Meyer”
• Coffee
• João Vila-Cha, SJ
  “ The Trans-Formation of Consciousness: Walter J. Ong and the Presence of the Word in the Making of Culture"

2-3:30 p.m. Afternoon Workshops

4-5:30 p.m. McGuinn 121

• Frank Braio “Recollecting Fr. Vincent Potter's Project”
• Leo Serroul “Lonergan, Teilhard and the Mystical Body”

7:30 p.m. Fulton 511

• Glenn Hughes “Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ” & Diane Quaid Poetry Readings

THURSDAY, JUNE 22

9-12 a.m. McGuinn 121

• Richard J. Cassidy “Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ”
• Neil Ormerod, “Ecclesiology, History, and the Social Sciences”
• Coffee
• Michael Vertin "The Finality of Human Spirit: From Marèchal to Lonergan"

2-3:30 Afternoon Workshops

5 p.m. Eucharist

7:00 p.m. Fulton 511

• John Haughey, SJ “The Unique Virtue That Understanding Lonergan Generates”

FRIDAY, JUNE 23

9-12 a.m. McGuinn 121

• Elizabeth Murray, "The Affectivity of Transcendent Will"
• Robert Miner “On Historical Knowledge: Vico, Collingwood, Lonergan”
• Coffee
• Gordon Rixon, SJ “Ignatius Loyola”

McGuinn 121, 2:30 p.m.

• Applying Lonergan’s Thought (featuring Mendo Castro Henriques’ PowerPoint presentation on the Portuguese translation of Insight)

AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS M-Th 2-3:30

INITIATING A DIALOGUE: ORTHODOX THEOLOGY & LONERGAN, Paul LaChance

Frank Braio, PIERCE, POTTER, HEELAN, LONERGAN
Joseph Flanagan, SJ, INSIGHT TO METHOD THROUGH ART
Richard Grallo, LONERGAN AND TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY
Charles C. Hefling, METHOD IN THEOLOGY
Thomas C. Kohler, LONERGAN & THE LAW
Richard Liddy, INTRODUCING LONERGAN: “COGNITIONAL STRUCTURE”
Robert Luby, M.D., MEDICINE ON A HUMAN SCALE: THE GRAMMAR of PHYSIOLOGY AND LONERGAN'S HEALING VECTOR-CISES
*Alfredo MacLaughlin, NEW HORIZONS IN LONERGAN’S THOUGHT
Thomas McPartland, PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
Morag McConville, ETHICS, BUSINESS, & COMMUNITIES
Neil Ormerod, ECCLESIOLOGICAL ISSUES

*To be held at an agreed upon time.