‘Materializing’ Self-Transcendence
Religious Studies and Theology March 19, 2026 Reid B. Locklin
“Religious experience” and “religious self-transcendence” are key concepts in the philosophical theology of Bernard Lonergan, SJ (1904–1984). In the last 30 years, however, both the empirical sources of Lonergan’s universalist view of religion and the category of “religion” itself have been subjected to searching postcolonial critiques. As a partial response to such critiques, I offer in this...