This article argues that Bernard Lonergan’s cognitional theory can function as a framework for understanding the Church as grounded in tradition yet engaged in self-transcendence. Using a correlation method, this study relates three fundamental questions of the theory to the Church’s ongoing response to God’s revelation in the evolving context. First, the question, “What am I doing when I am...
This article examines the interrelation between Descartes’ Méditations métaphysiques (Meditations on First Philosophy) and Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercices, with an emphasis on the meditative dimension in the search for truth by the subject engaged in meditation or spiritual exercises. Through a simultaneous and comparative reading using the triplex via framework (via purgativa, via...