After a short hiatus last academic year, our reading groups are back! Last Fall we read the recent Apostolic Exhortation Amaris Laetitia. Our group was especially fortunate to have a number of lay parish staff members, as well as numerous Jesuits with parish experience, not to mention married students with families. This Spring we …
Lonergan’s series of essays entitled A Second Collectionis now available as volume thirteen of the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan thanks to the remarkable and expert editorial work of Bob Doran and John Dadosky. They have made extensive use of archival material and earlier drafts of the various pieces constituting this collection to produce an exemplary distillation …
Our annual Lonergan Lecture honors the memory and advances the achievement of Bernard Lonergan. Each year the Lec- ture brings a noted expert to Toronto to address important and timely questions. Last year, Prof. Cynthia Crysdale invited us to reflect on the problem of discern- ment presented by what Lonergan called the ‘Law of the …
As described in the previous edition of our Bulletin, the process for ap- pointing a new permanent Director of the Institute is moving forward as a collaboration between Regis College and the LRI Board. In the meantime, it seemed best not to rush things, and the LRI Board is very pleased to an- nounce that …
By custom, most years (though not every), the LRI confers a Service Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to the well-being of the Institute and the furtherance of its mission. This year, the Service Award goes to John and Margaret Denson of Houston. Their substantial support for Research Assistantships at the LRI launched a vital …
We are pleased to announce that this year’s Lonergan Lecture will be given by Dr Cynthia Crysdale, Professor of Christian Ethics in the School of The‐ ology at Sewanee: The University of the South. She is the author of Em‐ bracing Travail: Retrieving the Cross Today, and, with Neil Ormerod, Crea‐ tor God, Evolving World, …
This month Fr Michael Shields retires from service to the LRI after 35 years. Fr Shields was missioned to the LRI- Then the Lonergan Center at Regis College- in autumn to assist FR Federick Crowe, SJ, with the growing demands for assistance from scholars and especially from the many ‘daughter’ centers popping up around the …
LRI is very pleased to announce that two Visiting Scholars will join the LRI community for the coming academic year. Michael Ryall is Associate Pro‐ fessor of Strategy at Rotman School of Business in the University of Toronto. He received his PhD in Economics from UCLA in 1997. His dissertation on causal inference in game‐theoretic …
The hardest part of organizing our Graduate Seminar series is making choices. We are presented with an embarrassment of riches, and we could put on twice as many events without exhausting the supply of stimulating papers (but not, alas, without exhausting our participants and staff!). Fr Francis Carpinelli was for many years Professor of New …
Louis Roy presents this year’s Lon‐ ergan Lecture on Friday, October 31. His topic is “Religious Experience in Lonergan’s Thought.” Fr Roy is pro‐ fessor at Dominican University Col‐ lege in Ottawa and the author of nu‐ merous books, including Transcend‐ ent Experiences: Phenomenology and Critique, and Mystical Consciousness: Western Perspectives and Dialogue with Japanese …
