Why Theology Can and Should be Taught at Secular Universities
Lonergan on Intellectual Conversion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11952899 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrick Giddy (0000-0002-6804-3731, University of KwaZulu-Natal, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 527-543 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Philosophy of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-8249 • E-ISSN: 1467-9752 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2011.00807.x |
| OpenAlex | W1956050746 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 8 |
Drawing on Bernard Lonergan’s Method in Theology (1972) I argue that theology can be taught because personal knowledge, of which it is an instance, is at the heart of academic inquiry; and it should be taught because critical engagement with basic ways of taking one’s life as a whole (religion in a broad sense) furnishes a critique of the typical oversights of contemporary culture. The appropriation of one’s subjectivity entails an awareness of an existential dialectic that pushes towards a decisive option for affirming the possibility and worth of growth in one’s powers of self-determination and self-transcendence. Thus conversion—precisely defined in terms of this dialectic—has moral and intellectual dimensions whose promotion goes to the heart of the academic enterprise. By separating out those disciplines (systematics, for example) which are mediated by the existential stance taken by the scholar, Lonergan allows theology to be seen as one world view among others
Appropriation · Dialectic · Epistemology · Existentialism · Ontology · Sociology · Subjectivity · Theology · Transcendence (philosophy · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Catholicism and Religious Studies · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions
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| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
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