History 573
Sku: 57300D0E060
Archival Number: A573
Author: Lonergan, B.
Language(s): Latin
Decade: 1960
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17 handwritten pp. Dated May 28. Headings: Narrative and history, Mediatio, Mediation of the New Man in Christ Jesus, What Is a Dogma?, Distinction of Positive and Dogmatic Theology, Overlapping A, Need Not Fight, Dogmatic Theology, Overlapping B, Illustrations, Systematic Theology, Methodical Functions. From spring 1963 course De Methodo Theologiae.
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57300D0L060 May 28
Part 1 of transcription (not all of the transcription could fit, but since the document is in English it can be read from the .pdf file.)
History: Gnoseology à criterion of history
Metaphysics à reality of history
as reality: it is what man does, makes;
what man undoes, replaces
homo ||se[cun]dum evolutionem: Destiny
|se[cun]dum conversion: Decision
||Highest level of reflection on human action
|concrete context of existential decision
Past: ||sets the stage: situationem
|provides the needs, exigences, opportunities
|provides collaboration & opponents
Decision, [labor] -----------, meets the occasion
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Nature & History
not Hegelian – Hegel [contrasts] ||derivation of Nature
|account of Nature /
Spirit transcendental (missed) & transcendent (misconceived)
Nature in scales of Spirit
1) Polus originarius
2) but must add polus exsistentialis
not per se which just limits polus exsistentialis
3) Intellect & will Intellectuallism vs Voluntarism
a) highest level of consciousness is not speculative
not practical (classical dire[m]ptio[n])
but rational self-consciousness
disposing of self
both spec[ulative]
and prac[tical]
b) in highest level intellect can & should lead
reflective understanding à judg[ment] of Value ® Will
Hist[orical] consciousness
||Speculative (systematic) on action: tool of practical man
on man: illumination of existential decision
Catholic: faith that operates through charity
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Mediatio
relation || of the parts with one another
|between the parts and the whole
-mechanical: deest pars ||inutile |periculosa
- organic: mediates itself ||develops & maintains parts by which it functions;
|is a mediation of the species
- human: ||psychological ||immediate operations;
|mediated operations;
|operations on the mediators: (language, math[ematics], logic); technically organized universe
(nat[ural] |hum[ane] |theo[logical] sciences)— |subiect (critical methodical exsistential destiny)
|social: whole constituted by ||common apprehension
|common consent
|cultural: the character of apprehension
|the [interaction] of the assent
- Catholic: Non est Iudaeus neque Graecus / a new principle transformation:
||Jew & Greek subsidiary particularly
|catholic, universal perpetual
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Mediation of the New Man in Christ Jesus Neither Jew nor Greek Gal 3,28
Undiff[erentiated] consciousness:
-Non technical mode of understanding in commonsense development
immediate communication
example, preaching, summaries (creeds, catechism), liturgy, church discipline}
mediated communication: letters, documents, books
V[etus] T[estamentum], N[ovum] T[estamentum], written official decisions, X[ris]tian litterature (sources, present kerygm[a])
Classical consciousness:
-Technical: mode of understanding that defines terms & deduces conclusions
mode of communication proper to a universal, perpetual curch: neither Jew nor Greek
dogmatic moment: transposition from the non‑technical to the technical
same truth, same sense but different categories & context –DB 1792, 1800, 2714
transition from biblical to catholic categories & context
systematic moment: rounds out the field of technical statement Intelligentia myst[eriorurm]: Analogia [cum iis quae naturaliter cognoscimus], Nexus [mysteriorum inter se]
Historical consciousness:
-Methodical: reflects on process ||positive, |dogmatic, |systematic, |kerygmatic
distinguishes parts, assigns limits, determines functions of each
relates each to the others, works out foundations, excludes radical errors
prevents confusions, mutilations, distortions
Subiect, interiority, polus orig[inarius]
exsist[entialis], as foundation of all that can be ||said |known.
N[on]–t[echnical]: Aut Judaeus aut Graecus;
Tech[nical] Cath[olic]: Neque Judaeus neque Graec[us];
Meth[odical]: et Judaeus et Graecus et Cath[olicus]
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1) Technical expression —homoousios, duo physeis duo thelêmata physika—
||a creed,
|a solemn declaration,
|an anathema
Non-technical understanding: ousia, physis are not given a scientific explanation
2) idem verum 1792 eodem sensu 1800 2314
aliae categoriae et contextus —“implicit”
3) What takes place – transition from biblical to Catholic categories context
biblical: mentality of a given author, given milieu, treating issues for particular p[urposses]
catholic: universal & perpetual church stating its doctrine for everyone, everywhere
They can know what is meant without a doctorate in Scripture
4) Not romantic hermeneutics – thinking oneself into the mind of Paul, John.
Winckelmann, Schleiermacher, Dilthey.
Not a deduction per se ‑ some dogmas are, Ephesus (?) ‑ but a transposition
5) How is it implicit – possibility:
transc[endental] always implicit;
less determinate implicit
Transcendental categories are implicit in every mind —esse, non esse, nature, [part]. Dogmatic schemata less determinate than biblical —infinite, finite;absolute, relative.
6) Process: Is Christ the Son of God? Is it true that Christ is a) man; b) not merely a man; c) not a creature; d) not the Father; e) from the Father; f) given divine predicates; g) Son in a singular meaning? Did Paul, John, think of that? ||theologically infused (?) knowledge |what can be proved is 1 to 7.
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Distinction of Positive & Dogmatic Theology
1) Olier, Congar DTC 29 ||scholastic vs positive
|dogmatic vs moral º parts of Scholastic —as arising from subsequent development, literary‑histor[ical] studies
2) Development º process of differentiation & integration.
Differentiation occurs, is clarified, is understood & formulated
integration: distinct & complementary functions.
3) Total Method: ||description
|explanation —comp[arative]
organic
genetic
dialectical.
Horizon ||se[cun]dum evol[ution]:
se[cun]dum con[version].
Includes ||genesis of all dogmas & all systems
|refutation of all heresies & all errors.
4) Involves two types of operation
intelligence ||developing in c[ommon]-s[ense]
|developing in sc[ience’s]
C[ommon] S[ense]: Transcendental implicit.
Understands things as related to us; implies relations to one anoth[er].
Understands things as related to Isaias, M[ar]k, Paul, John, Athan[asius], &c.
Does not attempt moving over to things as related to one another;
patterns independent of standpoint of Jew & Greek
Syst[em]: a) transcendental becomes explicit;
b) dichotomy: genera entis, divisio entis, &c;
c) understanding of relations to one another.
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Dogmatic & Positive
1) Differ in mode of Expression.
D[ogmatic]: oratio recta: God the Son became Man;
P[ositive]: oratio obliqua: John said Verbum caro…; meant ---- ---- ----
2) Differ in object.
D[ogmatic]: God & all things in relation to God;
P[ositive]: What X said, meant, re God &c.
3) Differ in formal object: D[ogmatic]: its own problematik questions, terms, answers, systematization;
P[ositive] a) an author’s concerns, language, horizon, synthesis Di[rect], Obl[ique];
b) especially with regard to God.
4) Differ in mode of understanding:
D[ogmatic] moves to technical & expounds theor[y];
P[ositive] stays with particular works, authors, cultures, even technical writing studied by non‑technical type of understanding: —understanding Aquinas is not a theory about Aquinas