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[...]... diligently, piously, soberly and with God’s help, to attain a fruitful understanding of the mysteries of faith, both from the analogy of what human reason naturally knows and from the interconnections of the mysteries with each other and with humanity’s ultimate 14 Matthew C Ogilvie: Faith Seeking Understanding end Because it seeks understanding, systematics is not an effort to add more proof of the... Aquinas, understanding and judgement are sharply distinguished, the first seeking what an object is, the second determining whether one’s understanding of that object is correct (Lonergan 1994, 335) To explain systematics’ function, Lonergan (1994, 336) refers to the First Vatican Council’s retrieval of “the notion of understanding. ” The Council (DS 3016/TCF 132) taught that human reason, illumined by faith, ... encouraged Lonergan to confront difficulties sincerely, and provided, in the “illative sense” the model for Lonergan’s later reflective act of understanding He further developed his cognitional theory, reading more of Plato 16 Matthew C Ogilvie: Faith Seeking Understanding and the early dialogues of Augustine, noting in particular how Augustine was “unmindful of universal concepts.” Another key influence... for his theological method His Roman lectures show interest in the development of doctrine, as the ongoing, ever-deeper understanding of revealed mysteries During this period, he also grappled with the challenges of new hermeneutics and critical his- 18 Matthew C Ogilvie: Faith Seeking Understanding tory and the need to integrate modern achievements in these fields with the teachings of Catholicism This... irrelevant material, avoids repetitions and provides an account ordered to the subject matter of a 20 Matthew C Ogilvie: Faith Seeking Understanding book (Lonergan 1994, 345-346; 1988, 121; Summa Theologiae, Prologue) This book will pursue the ordo doctrinae, with the aim of communicating an understanding of systematics, as our subject matter However, we do not mean that because this book is not a chronological... science Moreover, Aristotelianism was incapable of understanding modern human and natural sciences and philosophy, and their relationship to theology While Catholic theology adhered to this outmoded and impotent Aristotelianism, Catholic theologians had attempted to supplement their theology with the results of modern philo- 26 Matthew C Ogilvie: Faith Seeking Understanding sophic thought However, where they... theology’s problems, specifically its lack of an adequate methodology, meant that with the rejection of the scholastic foundation 28 Matthew C Ogilvie: Faith Seeking Understanding of theology, people simultaneously rejected the more authentic tenets of the Catholic faith Moreover, with Catholic theology’s lack of a firm methodological foundation, Lonergan (1988, 245) foresaw the formation of one party in Catholicism... model of human knowing with its focus upon understanding, against the conceptualist legacy, which focuses on concepts Understanding Lonergan’s cognitional theory is crucial, for without doing so, we can understand neither Lonergan’s theological method, nor any part of the method, such as systematics Most importantly, we need to grasp what Lonergan means by understanding, as this is systematics’ main... make intelligible systematics’ distinction from, and relation to, belief, doctrines and faith Importantly, we shall have to distinguish systematics as an operation yielding understanding, from doctrines as a function yielding religious certitude We shall also have to ask what Lonergan could have meant by taking up understanding from analogy and interconnections In the final part of this book, we shall...10 Matthew C Ogilvie: Faith Seeking Understanding fluences upon Lonergan, if we understand the value and place of systematics and if we evaluate Lonergan's presentation of this functional specialty Therefore, in addition to fulfilling . for Systematics’ Understanding 139 Contents 5 3. Judgement and Understanding 142 4. Faith, Belief and Understanding 143 5. Doctrines and Understanding 154 6 61 4. The Pure Desire to Know 62 5. Understanding I—Insight 64 5.1 Examples of Insight 64 4Matthew C. Ogilvie: Faith Seeking Understanding 5.2 The Act of Insight