Systematically

Just a quick update on our recent absence and a few notes on our imminent return.

In today’s episode we welcome Dr. Glenn Butner from Sterling College to discuss his book, The Son Who Learned Obedience. After answering our guest questions, Glenn tells us about how he stumbled upon a debate about the putative subordination of the Son to the Father in the Trinity and began writing on the topic. He walks us through his approach to the controversy, why Arianism isn’t really the problem with Eternal Functional Subordination (EFS), and why monothelitism might be the much more serious problem. Glenn also uses Anselm’s atonement theory to indicate yet further problems with EFS. We get into how “function” in EFS connects with Evangelical complementarianism and then consider some of the moral and political implications of taking this Trinitarian theology as a model for gender relations. Robyn asks Glenn why penal substitutionary atonement figures so largely in his account of salvation. Ryan asks Glenn how his intervention has been received. Then Glenn gives us a précis of his book, The Son Who Learned Obedience.

We also had *another* very special guest: India Rose Boeré, born on February 22nd. Congrats to Robin and Neil!

TITLES REFERENCED IN MAIN SEGMENT:

The Son Who Learned Obedience: A Theological Case against the Eternal Submission of the Son. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2018.

“Against Eternal Submission: Changing the Doctrine of the Trinity Endangers the Doctrine of Salvation and Women.” Priscilla Papers. 31.1 (Winter 2017): 15-21.

“Eternal Functional Subordination and the Problem of the Divine Will.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. Vol. 58.1 (March 2015): 131-149.

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Today’s episode is a discussion of the relationship(s) between “natural rights” and the concrete specificities of human living. Our initial frivolity focuses on Robyn, Ryan, and Jon’s experiences of summer camp (Brian, for his part, has no such experiences), highlighting the specifics of Minnesotan lakes, camp songs, cowboy poetry, and vivid sense memories of cafeteria breakfasts. We then pivot into Lonergan’s 1977 lecture, “Natural Right and Historical Mindedness.” In this essay, Lonergan navigates the apparent tension between commitment to the idea of “natures” and the particularities of concrete location(s) and cultures(s). As Jon succinctly puts it, “If you’re going to say [human nature] transcends [these particulars], how?” Are natures unchanging? How does the assertion of metaphysics impact our account of variation in historicity? How can we be responsible in the ways we impact the unfolding of historical process? Lonergan offers his own answer to these questions, and the remainder of our chat explores how and why this is possible.

TITLES REFERENCED IN MAIN SEGMENT

Aristotle. “Metaphysics.” In The Basic Works of Aristotle, edited by Richard McKeon, translated by W.D. Ross, Reprint Edition., 681–926. Modern Library Classics. New York: Modern Library, 2001.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Reason in History: A General Introduction to the Philosophy of History. Translated by Robert S. Hartman. The Library of Liberal Arts 35. New York: Liberal Arts Press, 1953.

Kant, Immanuel. Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. Edited by Robert B. Louden. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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

Kant, Immanuel. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science: With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason. Translated by Gary Hatfield. Revised Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Foucault, Michel. “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History.” In Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews, edited by Donald F. Bouchard, 139–64. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1980.

Lonergan, Bernard J.F. “Dimensions of Meaning.” In Collection: Papers by Bernard J.F. Lonergan, edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran, 232–45. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 4. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993.

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. “Natural Right and Historical Mindedness.” In A Third Collection, edited by Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky, 163–76. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 16. University of Toronto Press, 2017.

Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Untimely Meditations. Translated by Anthony Ludovici and Adrian Collins. Pantianos Classics, 2016.

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Today’s episode is a delightful chat with Grant Kaplan, Associate Professor of Theology at Saint Louis University. Grant is an expert in nineteenth-century German Catholic theology, fundamental theology, Modern philosophy and theology, and a whole lot of other fascinating topics. He is also the author of René Girard, Unlikely Apologist: Mimetic Theory and Fundamental Theology (Notre Dame, 2016). After an initial foray into Grant’s ill-advised fashion choices (a crop top was involved), cooking failures (high temps and cheese don’t mix), and favorite bar (The Columns Hotel in New Orleans), we talk about the people, places, texts, and ideas that helped shape Grant into the theologian he is today.

TITLES REFERENCED IN MAIN SEGMENT

Alison, James. The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through Easter Eyes. New York: Crossroad, 1998.

Alison, James. On Being Liked. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 2003.

Bloom, Allan. Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students. Reissue edition. Simon & Schuster, 2012.

Doran, Robert M. The Trinity in History: A Theology of the Divine Missions, Volume 1: Missions and Processions. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.

Girard, René. I See Satan Fall Like Lightning. Translated by James G. Williams. Maryknoll, N.Y: Orbis, 2001.

Girard, René. Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World. Translated by Stephen Bann and Michael Metteer. First edition. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987.

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.

Lawrence, Frederick. The Fragility of Consciousness: Faith, Reason, and the Human Good. Edited by Randall S. Rosenberg and Kevin Vander Schel. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.

Lewis, C. S. Mere Christianity. Revised & Enlarged edition. San Francisco: HarperOne, 2015.

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.

MacIntyre, Alasdair. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. Third Edition. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.

Milbank, John. Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason. 2nd Edition. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006.

Moore, Sebastian. The Crucified Jesus Is No Stranger. 2nd edition. New York: Paulist Press, 2018.

TREASURES OLD AND NEW

Purvis, Zachary. Theology and the University in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Drey, Johann Sebastian. Brief Introduction to the Study of Theology: With Reference to the Scientific Standpoint and the Catholic System. First American edition. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 1994.

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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

Augustine. On the Trinity. Edited by Gareth B. Matthews. Translated by Stephen McKenna. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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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In today’s episode, we begin with a very amusing conversation about recurring dreams. This conversation quickly reveals that we don’t really know how math works (although we do learn that Jon likes “trashy, voluptuous equation[s]”)! We also learn that Robyn’s stockpile of recurring dreams is fascinating and intrepid. Jon’s King Lear dream, on the other hand, gets him yelled at by Orson Welles! After this most interesting introduction, we pivot into a discussion of Lonergan’s 1976 essay, “Mission and the Spirit.” First, we set the scene for by unpacking finality and its place in metaphysics and epistemology. This leads to a discussion of how incredibly complex and mid-blowing the universe is, as higher, sublative processes integrate and order lower schemes of recurrence (which gets even more interesting when we bring human agency into the picture). Even more fascinatingly, finality extends beyond even proportionate being, as all things have a relationship of absolute finality to God. Come back next week for an overview of how Lonergan relates this framework to trinitarian theology and soteriology.

TITLE NAMED IN MAIN SEGMENT

Aristotle. “Metaphysics.” In The Basic Works of Aristotle, edited by Richard McKeon, translated by W.D. Ross, Reprint Edition., 681–926. Modern Library Classics. New York: Modern Library, 2001.

Blondel, Maurice. Action: Essay on a Critique of Life and a Science of Practice. Translated by Oliva Blanchette. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 1984.

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.

Lubac, Henri de. The Mystery of the Supernatural. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1998.

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

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In today’s episode, we give low-temp takes on Fahrenheit vs. Celsius, and high-temp takes on meaning! After blowing Robyn’s mind by demystifying DMs, unpacking the truly disturbing original version the “Baby Shark” song, and choosing our animal sidekicks (editor’s note: Brian’s would be a mischievous but loyal cartoon wolf named Wolfram), we continue our deep dive into some of Lonergan’s lesser-known writings. This week’s discussion is focused on Lonergan’s 1965 lecture, “Dimensions of Meaning,” which appears in Volume 4 of The Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan. True to its title, “Dimensions of Meaning” is a discussion of meaning, but—true to form—Lonergan means something very specific by “meaning.” What is the relationship of language and meaning? How does the mediation of meaning shape social and cultural development? How does meaning serve a constitutive function? Do we make meanings? Where do the natural sciences fit? These and similar questions are what drive today’s discussion.

TITLE NAMED IN MAIN SEGMENT

Jaspers, Karl. The Origin and Goal of History. Abingon: Routledge, 2016.

Lonergan, Bernard J.F. “Dimensions of Meaning.” In Collection: Papers by Bernard J.F. Lonergan, edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran, 232–45. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 4. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993.

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. 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. 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.

O’Regan, Cyril. “The ‘Gift’ of Modernity.” Church Life Journal (Notre Dame), March 20, 2018. https://churchlife.nd.edu/2018/03/20/the-gift-of-modernity/

Piaget, Jean. The Moral Judgment of the Child. New York: Free Press, 1997.

TREASURES OLD AND NEW

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We’re back! As we begin the new year, we’re also starting a new season of Systematically, and we’re glad you’re with us. Although Brian and Robyn are absent (due to Christmastime traveling and sickness, respectively), Ryan and Jon ring in 2019 by discussing their children’s uncanny ability to both catch and spread seasonal illnesses, inhibiting dissertation progress along the way. This segues into a spirited conversation about Lonergan’s 1974 essay, “The Dialectic of Authority,” which appears in Volume 16 of The Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan. That essay focuses on the complex tension between power and the exercise of legitimate power (i.e., authority), especially as this tension impacts a community’s development of shared meanings and values. This tension’s historical unfolding manifests itself in widespread progress or decline. If contemporary headlines are any indication, Lonergan’s thoughts on the topic are still quite timely in 2019.

TITLE NAMED IN MAIN SEGMENT

Jaspers, Karl. The Origin and Goal of History. Abingon: Routledge, 2016.

Lonergan, Bernard J.F. “Dialectic of Authority.” In A Third Collection, edited by Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky, 3–9. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 16. University of Toronto Press, 2017.

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. “Dimensions of Meaning.” In Collection: Papers by Bernard J.F. Lonergan, edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran, 232–45. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 4. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993.

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.

Snell, Bruno. The Discovery of the Mind. Revised Edition. New York: Dover Publications, 2011.

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Today’s episode is…not a full episode! As Advent moves us closer and closer to Christmas, we are taking a brief hiatus, and this recording is a message and update from Jon. We have big plans for a new year of podcasts, and we’re excited to bring you more interviews, discussions, and frivolity in 2019. Until we return in January, we want to wish you and your loved ones a restful, happy, and blessed holiday season. Thanks for listening!

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Today’s episode is a one-on-one conversation between Jon and Robyn, developing our conversation from Episode 04 (“The One Introducing Theology of Children”) by exploring the specifics of childhood decision-making. Does it happen? Is it important? How can adults more effectively foster integral meaning-making and existential authenticity in childhood development? Before this discussion, however, we address the differences between Canadian Thanksgiving and American Thanksgiving, debate the problematics of putting up Christmas decorations during Advent, and analyze the inclusion of Advent wreaths in liturgy. Robyn then gives an overview of contemporary bioethical debates regarding childhood decisions, especially as her own work contests a number of the field’s unexamined assumptions. Robyn wraps up the discussion by sharing her rather morbid Treasure New, and soliciting your feedback about corresponding Treasures Old, then we say goodbye.

To listen to Robyn present "Children and Meaningful Choice: Medical Decision-Making and Lonergan on Meaning" at Lonergan on the Edge 2018, visit https://www.lonerganresource.com/conference.php?49

TITLES NAMED IN MAIN SEGMENT

Beauchamp, Tom L, and James F Childress. Principles of Biomedical Ethics. Seventh Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Bluebond-Langner, Myra. The Private Worlds of Dying Children. First Paperback Edition. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1980.

Kierkegaard, Søren. The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition For Upbuilding And Awakening. Edited by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983.

MacIntyre, Alasdair. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. Third Edition. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.

Matthews, Gareth. The Philosophy of Childhood. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.

McCabe, Mary Ann. “Involving Children and Adolescents in Medical Decision Making: Developmental and Clinical Considerations.” Journal of Pediatric Psychology 21, no. 4 (1996): 505–16.

Miller, Mark T. The Quest for God and the Good Life: Lonergan’s Theological Anthropology. Washington, D.C: The Catholic University of America Press, 2013.

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. 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.

Voegelin, Eric. “Immortality: Experience and Symbol.” The Harvard Theological Review 60, no. 3 (1967): 235–79.

“TREASURES OLD AND NEW”

Cicero. On Life and Death. Edited by John Davie and Miriam T. Griffin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure. Edited by Dennis Taylor. Reprint edition. London: Penguin Classics, 1998.

Laqueur, Thomas W. The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains. Reprint Edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018.

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