In today’s episode, we continue last’s week’s discussion of Lonergan’s “Mission and the Spirit.” After a quick request for our wonderful listeners to send us Treasures Old & New, we pick up our previous analysis of finality, which Lonergan understands as a relation to an end. This quick review leads us into the essay’s fourth section (“The Human Subject”), which examines the exigences driving the operations of our consciousness’ unfolding. Because human life is marred by bias, sin, and decline, Lonergan also stresses that our self-transcendence and vertical finality require the healing and elevation that can only come from God’s saving action in history. This soteriological necessity serves as the subject of the essay’s final section, which treats the missions of the Son and Spirit.

TITLES REFERENCED IN MAIN SEGMENT

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Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time. Translated by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2008.

Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason. Edited by Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Lonergan, Bernard, J.F. “Finality, Love, Marriage.” In Collection. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran, 17–52. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 4. (Toronto: University of Toronto, 1988.

Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Insight: A Study of Human Understanding. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. 5th Edition. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 3. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992.

Lonergan, Bernard J.F. “Mission and the Spirit.” In A Third Collection, edited by Frederick E. Crowe, 21–33. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 16. University of Toronto Press, 2017.

Lonergan, Bernard J.F. “The Natural Desire to See God.” In Collection: Papers by Bernard J.F. Lonergan, edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran, 81–91. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 4. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993.

Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. Vol. Volume 2. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.

Rahner, Karl. “Christology within an Evolutionary View of the World.” In Theological Investigations, translated by Kevin Smyth, 4:157–92. Baltimore: Helicon Press, 1966.

Rahner, Karl. Spirit in the World. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 1994.

Sala, Giovanni B. Lonergan and Kant : Five Essays on Human Knowledge. Translated by Joseph Spoerl. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.

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