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The Fragility of Consciousness is the first published collection of Frederick G. Lawrence’s essays and contains several of his best known writings as well as unpublished work.
List of contents
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Foreword by Frederick G. Lawrence
Editor’s Introduction
Part One: The Hermeneutic Revolution and the Crisis of Culture
1. Martin Heidegger and the Hermeneutic Revolution
2. Hans-Georg Gadamer and the Hermeneutic Revolution
3. Gadamer and Lonergan on Augustine’s
Verbum Cordis - the Heart of Postmodern Hermeneutics
4. A Jewish and a Christian Approach to the Problematic of Jerusalem and Athens: Leo Strauss and Bernard Lonergan
5. Voegelin and Gadamer: Continental Philosophers Inspired by Plato and Aristotle
6. Transcendence from Within: Benedict XVI and Jürgen Habermas on the Dialogue between Secular Reason and Religious Faith
Part Two: Theology and the Human Good
7. The Fragility of Consciousness: Lonergan and the Postmodern Concern for the Other
8. The Recovery of Theology in a Political Mode: The Example of Ernest L. Fortin, AA
9. The Economic Good of Order and Culture in Relation to Solidarity, Subsidiarity, and Responsibility
10. The Human Good and Christian Conversation
11. Grace and Friendship: Postmodern Political Theology and God as Conversation
12. Growing in Faith as the Eyes of Being-in-Love with God
The Writings of Frederick G. Lawrence
Index
About the author
By Frederick G. Lawrence
Edited by Randall S. Rosenberg and Kevin M. Vander Schel
Summary
The Fragility of Consciousness is the first published collection of Frederick G. Lawrence’s essays and contains several of his best known writings as well as unpublished work.
