He actually didn't write 'to prove the existence of god;' a phrase I never
heard him utter or write. In his early days of teaching, he was sent to
Rome to teach young seminarians a course on the Trinitarian notion of god.
In the classic medieval texts, the primary metaphor for "one god, 3 persons"
is a tripartite, hegelian-like notion of the experience of knowing. To his
dismay, none of his students had any familiarity with their own experience
of knowing, so he originally wrote Insight as a primer, carrying the reader
through various experiences of questioning and finding possible answers‹in
math, experimental physics, statistical inference, psychoanalysis,
economics, history. And an analysis of the kinds of experience that block
the desire to know. It is a very embodied map of how we come to question and
follow those questions to their various levels of resolution.
He was actually on the fringes of orthodoxy. In our seminary, we were
originally forbidden to read Insight. Older Jesuits were very critical of
his work, calling it subjectivistic. He ended his life at Harvard following
his interest in economics.
Don Hanlon Johnson
www.donhanlonjohnson.com
On 7/27/11 8:44 AM, "ellie epp" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> can any theologian who writes to prove the existence of god be
> relevant to embodiment studies?
>
> On 7/27/11, Adrian Harris <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Have any of you explored the work of Bernard Lonergan, notably/Insight:
>> A Study of Human Understanding/? I'm asking as part of my response to an
>> enquiry posted to my blog - see below. Bill is clearly very excited by
>> Lonergan's work but I'm after a broader set of opinions.
>>
>>> I have recently become interested in embodiment of "mind" so-called thru
>>> reading Lakoff and Johnson (1999). I will spare you my meanderings across
>>> the internet both prior and subsequent to L and J, by saying that my
>>> starting point was Bernard Lonergan's seminal work "Insight" (Toronto: U
>>> of Tronto Press, 1957 et seq.) Lonergan (1904-1984) was so good that
>>> like Heideggar he has left a circle of disciples, both across Europe and
>>> North America (B.L. was a lifelong Canadian). Have you heard of
>>> Lonergan? Do you have colleagues or contacts in the Conitive Embodiment
>>> movement in any way who have studied Lonergan and see the connections
>>> between him and it? No kidding, they are there--ripe fruit for the
>>> picking...
>>> My best wishes to you,
>>> Bill Bendzick
>>
>> http://www.adrianharris.org/blog/2011/06/the-cognitive-iceberg/#comment-319
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Adrian
>>
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