This episode is recorded on location at Lonergan on the Edge Graduate Student Conference, an annual event featuring presentations drawing from, related to, or adjacent to Lonergan studies. Gathering around the coffee table in Robyn’s hotel suite, we are joined by our friend Chanelle, who presented this year’s M. Shawn Copeland Presentation in Contextual Theology. After Chanelle answers a number of our go-to Introductory Questions, she gives us a brief overview of her excellent presentation, “Embodiment, Bias, and Memory: The Theological Task of Remembering Indigenous Women in Canada and Unsettling the Virgin Mary.” Chanelle reflects on how Copeland’s methodology might provide the theological grammar necessary for discussing missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW), and briefly explores how Bernard Lonergan’s understanding of bias might unmask the inaction and apathy of both the federal government and the Roman Catholic Church in Canada. Finally, through sustained reflection on the intersectional identity of the Virgin Mary, she proposes that Mary and her posture of memory might frame how the Roman Catholic Church responds to and supports communities impacted by MMIW. Brian shares his Treasures Old and New, and then we say goodbye.

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TITLES NAMED IN MAIN SEGMENT

Balthasar, Hans Urs von. Mary for Today. San Francisco, Calif: Ignatius Press, 1988.

Copeland, M. Shawn. Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2010.

Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Method in Theology. Edited by Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 14. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.

Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Method in Theology. Edited by Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 14. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.

Chanelle also references the REDress Project. This project is “an aesthetic response to the more than 1000 missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada.” Visit http://www.theredressproject.org to learn more.

To learn more about Lonergan on the Edge and the Marquette Lonergan Project, and to access papers and recordings from past meetings of Lonergan on the Edge, visit https://www.lonerganresource.com

“TREASURES OLD AND NEW”

Möhler, Johann Adam. Unity in the Church, or, The Principles of Catholicism: Presented in the Spirit of the Church Fathers of the First Three Centuries. Translated by Peter C. Erb. Reprint Edition. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2016.

Ratzinger, Joseph Cardinal. In the Beginning…’: A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall. Translated by Boniface Ramsey. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995.

Brian also mentions the following book as an interesting correlate to Ratzinger’s homilies on creation:

Crysdale, Cynthia S. W., and Neil Ormerod. Creator God, Evolving World. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2013.

Our theme music is “14 Ghosts II” by Nine Inch Nails, available at https://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV

“14 Ghosts II” is used under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. We would like to thank Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the use of this track.

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