Empowering Bernard Lonergan's Legacy

John Raymaker has lived and worked in the United States, Japan, Belgium, and Germany. He earned his Ph.D. in interdisciplinary social ethics at Marquette University in 1977. He has studied Buddhism for over twenty-five years and has published multiple articles and books on encounters between the major world religions.

Raymaker’s command of the Lonergan corpus is clear. . . .It is definitely a rewarding read.

• List of IllustrationsForeword By Philip McShaneIntroduction xvPart I Historical And Intercultural BackgroundsLonergan’s Notions of “Matrix” and “Feedback”Chapter 1 Generalized Empirical Method (GEM) as Possible “Feedback Matrices”First Historical Feedback Matrix: Situating GEM’s Mediating, Transformative RolesChapter 2 Two Further Feedback Matrices: Historical ImplicationsMetaphysical Equivalence and the Limitations of Various AnalysesA Second Historical Feedback Matrix: How Lonergan (GEM) Goes Beyond AquinasThird Historical Feedback Matrix: How Lonergan (GEM) Reconciles Galileo, Pascal, and EinsteinPart II An Ethically Empowering Foreground Coordinating Lonergan’s LegacyChapter 3 Transitional Issues in Evaluating Holistic-GEM-FS CollaborationChapter 4 Implementing the Functional Specialties in Two PhasesFourth GEM-Fs Feedback Matrix: Functional Collaboration And Grounding EthicsA First Complementarity-Dialectical Phase: Grounding GEM OperationsTransition to Fig. 3b’s Second Cooperative Dialectical PhaseChapter 5 Fifth Feedback Matrix: A Structured IGEMAOperating as a Collaborative FS Feedback Matrix to Implement the Human GoodConclusionAppendix I: GEM-Buddhist Dialectical FoundationsAppendix II: GEM EconomicsAppendix III: Feedback Matrices’ Transformative Roles and Mathematical AnalogiesIndex