We are happy to announce the latest installment of the University Libraries podcast series entitled: Zet Forward. This podcast entitled: “The Ambiguity of Being Lonergan and the Problems of the Supernatural,” with guest scholar Jonathan Heaps, Ph.D.
This broadcast features Director of the Bernard J. Lonergan Institute, Center for Catholic Studies and Adjunct Professor in the Core Curriculum, Dr. Jonathan Heaps. For more information on Dr. Heaps and his accomplishments visit his Professional Homepage.
This work features expert perspective by Dr. Heaps. As his publisher noted that the content found within this book provides insights whereby . . . “The debate in Catholic theology over the relationship between the natural and the supernatural has only occasionally engaged with Bernard Lonergan’s philosophical and theological contributions on the topic. The Ambiguity of Being argues that more detailed engagement with Lonergan’s work implies an oversight in both the 20th- and 21st-century debates. Ambiguity argues the controversy has failed to notice how the problem of the natural and the supernatural is, in fact, two problems. Ambiguity takes both problems in their widest sense to be about action—both divine and human . . . Ambiguity argues at length the modern problem cannot be reduced to, nor an answer deduced from its medieval, metaphysical partner because the modern problem of the supernatural—what is God doing in human action?—is a hermeneutical problem that calls out for a hermeneutical answer. Ambiguity sketches a heuristic for what a fully adequate answer to this question would require, suggesting a radical re-conception of modern theology’s scope.
You can find this podcast at: Podcast @ Seton Hall University
Further details connected to this work can be found via the Catholic University of America Press homepage. A physical volume of The Ambiguity of Being : Bernard Lonergan and the Problems of the Supernatural, is ready for circulation and can be found within the Main Collection of the University Libraries, specifically within the Faculty Publications section (Call #: BX891.3.H39 2023) located on the Second Floor of Walsh Library.
Zet Forward is a podcast to celebrate authors and other individuals who are involved with projects for the benefit of Seton Hall University and the wider world. The series began in February of 2022.
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