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Doctrinal Pluralism Pere Marquette Lecture in Theology ; 1971
author
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Lonergan, Bernard J. F.
publisher
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Marquette University Press
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0874625033
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9780874625035
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9780585306551
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English
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Theology, Doctrinal, Pluralism--Christianity.
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1971
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BT75.2.L58 1971eb
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201
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Theology, Doctrinal, Pluralism--Christianity.
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The 1971 Pere Marquette Theology Lecture
Doctrinal Pluralism
by Bernard Lonergan, S.J.
Marquette University Press Milwaukee 1971
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Library of Congress Catalog Number 70-155364 ISBN 0-87462-503-3
Second Printing, 1972 Third Printing, 1978
Copyright 1971 By Bernard Lonergan
PRINTED IN U.S.A.
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PREFATORY
In conjunction with the Tercentenary celebration of the missions and explorations of Jacques Marquette, S.J., the university's namesake, the Marquette University Theology Department launched a series of annual public lectures by distinguished theologians under the title of "The Pere Marquette Theology Lectures."
The 1971 lecture was delivered in Uihlein Hall of Milwaukee's new Performing Arts Center on the afternoon of Saturday, April 3rd, by the Rev. Bernard Lonergan, S.J., S.T.D., professor of dogmatic theology at Regis College, Toronto.
Bernard Lonergan was born in Buckingham, Quebec, on December 17, 1904. He earned the B.A. at the University of London in 1930, the S.T.D. at the Gregorian University, Rome, in 1940. He has taught theology at L'Immacule Conception (Montreal), at the Jesuit Seminary (Toronto), and at the Gregorian University. Next year he will be at Harvard.
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In 1947 Father Lonergan received the Cardinal Spellman Award for outstanding theological scholarship. In 1970 his work was the subject of "The First International Lonergan Congress." In the same year the Canadian government paid him its highest honor, naming him a Companion of the Order of Canada.
His published writings include: Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (London, New York, Longmans, Green, 1957); Collection (New York, Herder and Herder, 1967); Verbum, Word and Idea in Aquinas (Notre Dame, Notre Dame University Press, 1967); The Subject (Marquette University Press, 1968); and articles in many philosophical and theological journals.
Father Lonergan has appeared at Marquette many times in recent years. He delivered "Dimensions of Meaning" here in 1965 and "The Subject" in 1968. In 1970 Marquette awarded him the degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa.
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DOCTRINAL PLURALISM
A discussion of a pluralism in church doctrines needs a rather broad context. Accordingly my remarks will come under the following series of headings:
1. Pluralism and Communications
2. Pluralism and Classicist Culture
3. Pluralism and Relativism
4. Undifferentiated and Differentiated Consciousness
5. Pluralism and Theological Doctrines
6. Pluralism and Conversion
7. Pluralism and Church Doctrines: The First Vatican Council
8. Pluralism and Church Doctrines: The Ongoing Context
9. The Permanence and Historicity of Dogma
10. Pluralism and the Unity of Faith
11. The Permanence of Dogma and Demythologization
1. Pluralism and Communications
In the final paragraph of the gospel according to Matthew, our Lord bid the
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Eleven to go forth and make all nations his disciples. This command has always stood at the basis of the church's mission, but in our age it has taken on a special significance. On the one hand, anthropological and historical research has made us aware of the enormous variety of human mentalities, cultures, and social arrangements. On the other hand, even a brief experience of historical investigation makes one aware how diligently yet how circumspectly one must proceed if one is to hope to reconstruct the meanings and intentions of another people, another time, another place. So it is that now we can know so much more about all nations and about the differences among them. So too it is that now we can understand the vastness and the complexity of the task of preaching the gospel to all nations.
This fact of diversity entails a pluralism, not yet of doctrines, but at least of communications. If one doctrine is to be preached to all, still it is not to be preached in the same manner to all.1 If one is to communicate with those of another cul-
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ture, one must employ the resources of their culture. To employ simply the resource's of one's own culture is not to communicate with the other but to remain locked up in one's own. On the other hand, it is not enough simply to employ the resources of the other culture; one must do so creatively. Merely to employ the resources of the other culture would be to fail to communicate the Christian message. But creative employment of those resources makes it possible to say in that culture what as yet had not been said.
There is a further point. Once Christian doctrine has been introduced successfully within a culture, it will proceed to develop along the lines of that culture. So it was that the gospel first preached in Palestine developed into a Judaic Christianity that employed the thought-forms and stylistic genera of Sptjudentum in its apprehension of the Christian mysteries.2 So too down the ages there have developed the idiosyncrasies of many local or national churches. Nor do these ongoing differences, once they are understood and
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