Theology and the dialectics of history / Robert M. Doran
- Author
- Doran, Robert M., 1939-
- Published
- Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [1990]
- Copyright Date
- ©1990
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xvi, 732 pages)
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- Contents
- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Theology and Praxis -- 2 Systematic Theology as a Theory of History -- 3 Interdisciplinary Collaboration -- 4 Foundations and Systematics -- 5 Complements to Lonergan -- 5.1 The Question of the Situation -- 5.2 Psychic Conversion -- 5.3 Dialectic -- 5.4 The Scale of Values -- 5.5 The Dialectic of Culture -- 5.6 The Ontology of Meaning -- 5.7 Praxis -- 6 The Situation as Theological Source -- PART ONE: BASIC TERMS AND RELATIONS -- 1 Bernard Lonergan's Notion of the Subject -- 1 The Position on Knowing, 2 Existential and Historical Agency3 The Position on Love -- 4 Healing and Creating -- 5 Bias and Conversion -- 6 Initial Application -- 2 The Notion of Psychic Conversion -- 1 Self-appropriation -- 2 The Duality of Consciousness -- 3 The Finality of the Psyche -- 4 Affective Self-transcendence -- 5 Ordered and Disordered Affections -- 6 Feelings and Values -- 7 Feelings and Symbols -- 8 Psychic Conversion Defined -- 3 The Notion of Dialectic -- 1 Dialectic as Heuristic -- 2 Consciousness and Knowledge -- 3 Dialectic as Pure Form, 4 The Basic Dialectic of the Subject5 Foundations -- 6 Applications -- 7 Conclusion -- 4 The Integral Scale of Values -- 1 The Basic Structure -- 2 Expansion of the Basic Structure -- 3 Conclusion -- 5 The Community of the Servant of God -- 1 Christian Authenticity and Fidelity to the Scale of Values -- 2 Two Forms of Suffering -- 3 General and Special Categories -- 4 The Church as Servant -- 5 The Servant of God in the World -- PART TWO: PERSONAL VALUES AMD THE DIALECTIC OF THE SUBJECT -- 6 Theological Foundations and Psychic Self-appropriation, 1 Preliminary Remarks2 Foundations and the Analogy of Dialectic -- 3 Conversion and the Academy -- 4 Lonergan and the Postmodern Context -- 5 The Crucial Experiment -- 6 Depth Psychology and the Beautiful -- 7 Transition -- 7 The Dialectic of the Subject -- 1 The General Form of the Argument -- 2 The Dialectic of the Subject -- 3 Universal Willingness -- 4 Universal Willingness and the Law of the Cross -- 5 Universal Willingness and Existential Consciousness -- 8 The Psyche and Integral Interiority -- 1 Spirit and Psyche -- 2 Creativity, and 3 Complexes and Affective Self-transcendence4 Disordered Complexes and the Dialectic of Community -- 5 Affectivity and Moral Impotence -- 6 The Healing Vector -- 9 Reorienting Depth Psychology -- 1 Theology and Depth Psychology -- 2 The Sensitive Psyche and Existential Consciousness -- 3 Second Immediacy -- 4 Dreams -- 5 The Notion of the Spiritual Unconscious -- 6 Integrator and Operator -- 7 Pneumopathology and a Psychology of Orientations -- 8 The Anagogic Context of Psychological Experience -- 9 Symbols -- 10 Transcendence and Limitation
- Summary
- In this challenging work Robert M. Doran explores the basis of systematic theology in consciousness, and goes on to consider the practical role of such theology in establishing and fostering communities with an authentic way of life. This way of life would counteract the distortions and deformations of humanity that are exemplified by both late capitalism and Marxism. Theology positions and interpretations today, argues Doran, must be stated in the categories of a theory of history. The first part of the book outlines the horizon required for such categories. The second, third, and fourth parts incrementally derive the categories expressing a theory of history in terms of the reciprocal relations among subjects, cultures, and social structures. The final part, on hermeneutics, oresents an argument for the pertinence of what has preceded for interpreting the words and deeds of others. Doran draws extensively on the thought of Bernard Lonergan, and the work develops Lonergan's methodological insights. It issues a call to persona; genuineness and authenticity, informed by religious, moral, intellectual, affective, and psychic 'conversions, ' by 'interior' differentiation of one's consciousness, and by Christian faith, on the parts of theologians who aspire to arrest effectively the course of cultural decline.
- Subject(s)
- Catholic Church—Doctrines
- Église catholique—Doctrines
- Iglesia Católica—Doctrinas
- Catholic Church
- Theology, Doctrinal
- Dialectical theology
- Psychology and religion
- Hermeneutics
- Religion and Psychology
- Théologie dogmatique
- Théologie dialectique
- Psychologie et religion
- Herméneutique
- RELIGION—Christian Theology—Systematic
- RELIGION—Christianity—General
- RELIGION—Theology
- Teología dogmática
- Historia—Filosofía
- Dialéctica
- Dialektische Theologie
- Geschichtstheorie
- Systematische Theologie
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781442682603 (electronic bk.)
1442682604 (electronic bk.)
080202713X
9780802067777
9780802027139 (bound ; alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references.
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