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...Bernard J.F. Lonergan...
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...
...Embracing Theory. Such a constellation of scholars attested to a 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...
...Crimson put the meet away by winning the first seven matches in a row, all by incredibly lopsided decisions. But Yale rallied to take the final three bouts, turning the rout into a retreat. And the last bout was Lonergan's 4-2 win over Chace, who had put away all eight of his heavyweight opponents prior to facing the Eli captain...
...questionable call by the referee contributed to Chace's downfall. Trailing Lonergan 1-0 in the last period. Chace reversed the Yale wrestler and seemed to be a hair away from a pin. But Lonergan twisted back into a reversal of his own, and the referee refused to award Chace the three-point near-fall or two-point predicament that he seemed to deserve. A point's worth of riding time gave Lonergan the 4-2 decision...