While it can take a series of disasters to convince people of the need for creating, still the long, hard, uphill climb is the creative process itself. In retrospect this process may appear as a grand strategy that unfolds in an orderly and cumulative series of steps. But any retrospect has the advantage of knowing the answers. The creative task is to find the answers. It is a matter of insight 鈥�
When survival requires a system that does not exist, then the need for creating is manifest.
About Us
The Lonergan Centre at Saint Paul University聽connects scholars with expert practitioners in national and international collaborative research projects that develop, apply and communicate the work of Bernard Lonergan. Lonergan鈥檚 major work,聽Insight: A Study of Human Understanding, invites readers into a uniquely personal yet resolutely empirical method for understanding insight and its transformative role in human living. Established in the spring of 2007, the Centre focuses on research in areas that can make a difference to people鈥檚 lives: areas such as peace and conflict; business and economics; ethics and community; insight and learning; science and religion; faith and life.
Our activities
We pursue our activities in partnership with a number of people and agencies. Currently, we are working in the following areas:
Economics, Business Ethics and Community Economic Development:
- Kenneth R. Melchin, Ph. D. (糖心传媒)
- Morag McAleese (糖心传媒)
- Charles Tackney, Ph. D. (Copenhagen Business School)
- Francis McLaughlin, Ph. D.
- David Coghlan, Ph. D. ()
- John Little, Ph. D. ()
- Jamie Price, Ph. D. (Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution聽et聽Sargent Shriver Peace Institute, George Mason University)
- J. Michael Stebbins, Ph. D. ()
Insight, Peace and Conflict:
- Kenneth R. Melchin,聽Ph. D. (糖心传媒)
- Cheryl A. Picard, Ph. D. ()
- Andrea Bartoli,聽Ph.D. (Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University et Center for International Conflict Resolution, Columbia University)
- Jamie Price, Ph. D. (Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution聽et Sargent Shriver Peace Institute, George Mason University)
- Neil C. Sargent ()
Other areas of application of Lonergan:
- Dr. Catherine E. Clifford (Saint Paul University): Ecclesiology and Ecumenism
- Dr. Margaret Myrtle Power (Saint Paul University): Religious Education and Learning Theory
The research and activities of the Centre have been made possible due to financial support from Saint Paul University.
Graduate Research
Doctoral theses
Profit and the Common Good: The Relevance of Bernard Lonergan鈥檚 Work to Discussions in Catholic Social Ethics on Ethics and Economics (2007)
by Dr. Darlene O’Leary
Director: Dr. Kenneth R. Melchin, Faculty of Theology
The Role of Feelings in Informed Consent: An Application of Bernard Lonergan鈥檚 Work on Affect and Cognition (2001)
by Dr. Hazel Joyce Markwell
Director: Dr. Hubert Doucet, Faculty of Theology
Pluralism and the structure of ethical discourse: insights from Lonergan, MacIntyre, and conflict resolution (1999)
by Dr. Peter L. Monette
Director: Dr. Kenneth R. Melchin, Faculty of Theology
Ethics and Sustainable Development: An Application of Bernard Lonergan鈥檚 Genetic Method (1998)
by Dr. Paul David Lewis
Director: Dr. Kenneth R. Melchin, Faculty of Theology
Extending Bernard Lonergan鈥檚 Ethics: Parallels Between the Structures of Cognition and Evaluation (1995)
by Dr. Joseph P. Cassidy
Director: Dr. James R. Pambrun, Faculty of Theology
Ethics and imagination : contributions from the work of Paul Ric艙ur to Bernard Lonergan鈥檚 intentionality analysis (1994)
by Dr. Michael Bruce Patrick George
Director: Dr. Kenneth R. Melchin, Faculty of Theology
The teachability of the heart: theological ethics in the work of John Calvin (1509-1564) (1992)
by Dr. James B. Sauer
Director: Dr. Kenneth R. Melchin, Faculty of Theology
Graduate Seminar Papers
Philosophical perspectives on corporate social responsibility : theory and practice (2010)
by Jessie C. MacNeil
Director: Dr. Kenneth R. Melchin, Faculty of Theology
An exploration and development of the significance of satire and humour in Bernard Lonergan’s ethical framework (2010)
by Amy Pauley
Directeur聽: Kenneth R. Melchin, Ph.D.,聽Facult茅 de th茅ologie
From abstract Catholic social thought principles to the concrete in the common good model of business: insights from the work of Bernard Lonergan (2008)
by Morag McConville
Director: Dr. Kenneth R. Melchin, Faculty of Theology
Theoretical differentiation and the development of doctrine: elements for an approach to doctrinal pluralism based on the work of Bernard Lonergan (2005)
by Derek Bianchi Melchin
Director: Dr. James R. Pambrun, Faculty of Theology
The contribution of Bernard Lonergan鈥檚 cognitional theory to a canonist鈥檚 understanding of moral certitude (1997)
by Thomas P. Ferguson
Director: Dr. Lynda Robitaille, Faculty of Canon Law
Intellect, feelings and moral/ethical decision-making: a Lonerganian perspective (1996)
by Hazel J. Markwell
Director: Dr. Hubert Doucet, Faculty of Theology
Links
The Lonergan community brings together scholars and people interested in Lonergan鈥檚 legacy from around the planet. We invite you to visit these other sites dedicated to furthering Lonergan鈥檚 work:
- 聽(University of Toronto, Regis College)
- The Lonergan Website聽(Concordia University)
- 聽(Boston College)
- 聽(Pierrot Lambert)
- The Bernard J. Lonergan Institute聽(Seton Hall University)
- The Los Angeles Lonergan Center聽(Loyola Marymount University)
- The Dublin Lonergan Centre (National University of Ireland, Milltown Institute)
- , Sydney
- (St. Anselm鈥檚 Abbey, Washington)
- The Woodstock Theological Center聽(Georgetown University)
- Lonergan en Latinoam茅rica
Lonergan related journals:
- Method
Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan
- University of Toronto Press
Our partners and collaborators:
- 聽(Carleton University)
- 聽(Gonzaga University)
- Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution聽(George Mason University)
- (George Mason University)
Publications
Contact
Lonergan Centre
Saint-Paul University
223 Main Street
Ottawa (Ontario)
K1S 1C4
Canada
613 236-1393, ext. 2347
centrelonergan@ustpaul.ca