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...CANADIAN Jesuit Bernard J.F. Lonergan is considered by many intellectuals to be the finest philosophic thinker of the 20th century. This month, 77 of the best minds in Europe and the Americas - critics and admirers, Protestants, Roman Catholics and agnostics - gathered to examine Lonergan's profoundly challenging work at rural St. Leo College near Tampa...
...renewed and heightened interest in Lonergan, who is now writing extensively again after recuperating from a 1 965 operation for lung cancer. That they came from so many disciplines demonstrated that Lonergan's influence has gone far beyond his original field of theology. In fact, says Fordham Jesuit Bernard Tyrell, Lonergan has become a true "phi losopher of culture": in his grasp of the process of understanding that un derlies every science, he is the 20th cen tury counterpart of a Renaissance...
...Jesuit Joseph Flanagan, a longtime Lonergan scholar, was much less surprised. For Flanagan, Lonergan's meth od "not only includes but demands interdisciplinary dialectic. We must learn from one another." To do otherwise, says Flanagan, simply contributes to "the pool of misunderstanding" that in Lonergan's thought lies at the source of so many of mankind's woes...
...thing the N.E.B. could still use is an edition with more complete explanatory notes of the kind that distinguish the Jerusalem Bible. Even so, Jesuit Biblical Scholar John L. McKenzie of the University of Notre Dame, who predicts that the New English Bible will be quickly accepted for Catholic church use, praises it as "the most successful modern-language version I have seen." Other eminent biblical scholars, who have read advance copies of the complete N.E.B., agree. With such endorsements, the initial Oxford-Cambridge press run of 1,000,000 copies should be scarcely the beginning...
...leaders are accused by Marcos of being Maoists. It claims a membership of some 27,000 students, workers and peasants. The largest of the moderate groups (50,000 members) is the National Union of Students of the Philippines, which is heavily influenced by liberal thinkers within the Roman Catholic Jesuit order...