The Genius of Bernard Lonergan – Wednesday, November 28 at 7:30pm

The Adult Faith Formation Commission presents a talk by Professor Fred Lawrence, Boston College Theology Department and founder/director of the Lonergan Workshop, on Wednesday November 28 at 7:30pm in the Social Hall.  Born in 1904 in Canada, Bernard Lonergan, S.J. was a twenty-four year old student of philosophy in England when he discovered John Henry Newman’s Grammar of Assent. He reportedly read it six times, thus setting out on a lifetime journey to show how we justify judgments of truth in areas that are not just empirical, such as faith. Often referred to as the most significant philosophical thinker of the twentieth century, he finished his intellectual apostolate as Distinguished Professor of Theology at Boston College. Today, decades later, Lonergan studies continue to flourish, as the Boston College Lonergan Institute fosters the ever-growing interest in this remarkable scholar and his seminal works.