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Capital Ways. For the seminarian, the years in Rome constitute a unique opportunity to learn the subtle ways of Catholicism's capital and to study under some of the church's best minds: English Jesuit Frederick Copleston, a distinguished historian of philosophy, or German Redemptorist Bernard Haring, generally considered Catholicism's top moral theologian, who teaches at the Academia Alfonsiana (a branch of the Lateran). Otherwise, the training is not much better-and in some ways worse -than what they would receive back home. While U.S. seminaries have all but abandoned Latin for lectures and brought their...
Some reasons for their enthusiasm are argued in the latest issue of Continuum, a lively, intellectual quarterly sponsored by Saint Xavier College in Chicago. The 244-page issue is devoted to analyses of Lonergan's work, including articles by English Jesuit Frederick Copleston, historian of philosophy, and by two of the nation's most theologically astute Catholic laymen: Continuum's Editor Justus George Lawler and Michael Novak of Harvard. Lonergan contributed a typically abstruse essay on "cognitional structure...
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