The Unrestricted Desire to Know’ – Unity and Differentiation in Bernard Lonergan’s Cognitional Theory
In the mid-1940s the Canadian Jesuit Bernard Lonergan concluded that Catholic theology needed to come to terms with modern thought not only in terms of its content but with its methods and procedures. The immediate trigger was a year-long series of lectures on “Thought and Reality” to lay people in Montreal, where he was then…