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 and now that new possibility. But what will count is perhaps a not too 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.
Bernard Lonergan, SJ
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- Contributors
Peter Beer, SJ studied at the Catholic University of America with Dr. Carl Peter. Upon completion of his doctoral dissertation, he then took up a teaching position in systematic theology at the Diocesan Seminary in Melbourne in 1971. He was awarded a travelling scholarship in Lonergan Studies at the Lonergan Center in Toronto in 1974-5, carrying out research under Frederick Crowe SJ. There he obtained permission from Bernard Lonergan to set up a similar Centre in Australia. This was done upon bequest by the Beer Family, and with collaboration with Thomas Daly, SJ. Moving in 1976 to Canisius College, Pymble NSW, Peter Beer was appointed to the staff of the Union Theological Institute of the Sydney College of Divinity as a professor in Systematic Theology. He is Director of the Lonergan Centre at Canisius College.- Peter Burley
was declared an Emeritus Professor of La Trobe University in 1997, following twenty six years there as Professor of Econometrics; after which he was appointed a Visiting Fellow in the Sub Faculty of Theology at Australian Catholic University for two years. He had previously held appointments at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam 1968-70, Princeton University 1964-68 (where he was awarded a PhD in Economics) and the University of Adelaide 1961-64 (where he was awarded a PhD in Physics). In the meantime he was an occasional visitor to universities in France, Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and the United Kingdom. Throughout his whole academic career he has kept up an interest in Lonergan's works, to which Tom Daly first introduced him in 1959.
Thomas V. (Tom) Daly, SJ became a Jesuit after graduating in engineering. He read Insight systematically between 1957 and 1960, attended three semester courses by Lonergan in 1961-64, attended his very last three lectures, at Boston College, in 1983, then expounded Method in Theology at the 1983 Boston Workshop. He has taught philosophy at seminaries in Melbourne and near Banz in Papua New Guinea and has entered public bioethics debates. He has given courses on Lonergan's philosophy at three different primary schools, and in management courses for senior executives. He recently completed two consecutive sets of 21 seminars on the Chapters of Insight.
Anthony J. (Tony) Kelly CSsR is Professor of Theology at Australian Catholic University, and has shown a long-standing interest in applying and promoting Lonergan's theological method. The author of numerous books and articles, he has written, in collaboration with Francis J. Moloney, the forthcoming The Opening of Heaven: The Experience of God in the Johannine Writings (New York Paulist, 2002).
John Little is a management consultant specialising in organisational change, strategic management and leadership development. He has consulted to major Australian companies and government bodies, religious orders and welfare and education groups. He is an Associate of Mt Eliza Business School and an Honorary Research Fellow of the Institute for the Advancement of Research at the Australian Catholic University, where he is involved in setting up a Centre for Research into Ethical Decision-making in Organisations. He is also a part-time farmer, having recently moved with his wife to a small mixed farm on the outskirts of Melbourne.
James (Jim) Mackinnon is currently working as a pastoral associate in the parish of Ayr in Queensland, after working many years in youth ministry in four dioceses throughout Australia. After gaining a Bachelor of Arts majoring in literature and language, he has pursued a long term interest in Lonergan studies, with a view to applying his foundational ideas more broadly. His interest in mission in the contemporary world has led to deeper investigations into the ethical structure of community.
Matthew C. Ogilvie studied Bernard Lonergan during undergraduate and graduate studies at Catholic Theological Union (Sydney) and doctoral studies at the University of Sydney. His PhD on Lonergan's Systematics was supervised by Tom Daly SJ and Eric Sharpe. He has taught at Catholic Institute of Sydney and Australian Catholic University. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Boston College. His book "Faith Seeking Understanding: The Functional Specialty Systematics in Bernard Lonergan's Method in Theology" is published by Marquette University Press (2001, repr. 2002). He is married to Elizabeth and they have four children.
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