Method in Theology

Philip McShane

McShane’s Essay, “Method in Theology: From [1 + 1/n]nx to {M (W3)θΦT}4”, takes off from a puzzling piece of a 1954 letter of Lonergan to Fred Crowe, which Crowe and McShane both struggled with, and pushes forward to a more coherent perspective seeded by Lonergan in the decades that span that letter in both time-directions. The theology identified as a vague genetics in 1954 is précised as a well-defined cyclic collaborative structure to emerge in later millennia as “a resolute and effective intervention in this historical process” (Phenomenology and Logic, 306).

Methodology, Metaphysics, Theology functional specialization, Lonergan studies, theological foundations