Word: method
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finn hopes that the nursery school will use techniques modeled after the Montessori method. He noted that the New York City Board of Education has instituted some 20 public nursery schools of this kind...
Lonergan has written or lectured on subjects as varied as economic ethics, the philosophy of education and the spiritual meaning of the family. But his primary intellectual task has been the analysis of two dry epistemological problems-the nature of knowing, and of intellectual method-that have a practical application in an age of verbal confusion, in which different disciplines find it frustrating to communicate with one another. Both problems, essentially, are philosophic ones that Theologian Lonergan undertook to solve partly out of pedagogical necessity. He found it impossible to teach theology correctly without first establishing a viable underlying philosophy...
Since the publication of Insight, Lonergan has been absorbed in the question of intellectual method, particularly for the theologian. He believes that Christianity is essentially a historical religion, borrowing many of its concepts from secular disciplines. The development of theology demands both an adherence to the truths of the past and a transformation in light of new scientific ideas about what science is, post-Freudian insights into the nature of the psyche, changing ideas of the nature of history...
...next book, Lonergan intends to outline a method for theological investigation that is analogous to the methods of modern science-thereby opening anew the possibility of mutual comprehension between Christian and secular thinking on ultimate questions of man. Lonergan admits that theology has not kept pace with man's intellectual evolution; the artists, he says, have become the true moralists...
Mattox is sure that his method has a great future in space-age construction that calls for the coating of such exotic metals as molybdenum and uranium that other plating systems cannot handle. The Mattox method can even plate the brittle ceramic parts essential to giant modern missiles and miniaturized computers-giving them such stick-tight coatings that they can be handled like metal components and joined together by brazing or soldering...