Theology and the Dialectics of History / / Robert Doran, S.J.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Doran, S.J., Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (748 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. Basic Terms and Relations -- 1. Bernard Lonergan’s Notion of the Subject -- 2. The Notion of Psychic Conversion -- 3. The Notion of Dialectic -- 4. The Integral Scale of Values -- 5. The Community of the Servant of God -- PART TWO. Personal Values and the Dialectic of the Subject -- 6. Theological Foundations and Psychic Self-appropriation -- 7. The Dialectic of the Subject -- 8. The Psyche and Integral Interiority -- 9. Reorienting Depth Psychology -- 10. A Clarification by Contrast -- PART THREE. Social Values and the Dialectic of Community -- 11. Cosmopolis and the Dialectic of Community -- 12. Infrastructure and Superstructure -- 13. Theology, the Church, and Liberation -- 14. Theology as Praxis -- PART FOUR. Cultural Values and the Dialectic of Culture -- 15. Transforming the Anthropological Principle -- 16. Theology and the Dialectic of Culture -- 17. World-cultural Consciousness -- PART FIVE. Hermeneutics and the Ontology of Meaning -- 18. Elements of Lonergan's Hermeneutics -- 19. The Ontology of Meaning -- 20. Psychic Conversion and Hermeneutics -- Notes -- Index