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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Lonergan"”.
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Ethics and sustainable development: An application of Bernard Lonergan's genetic method
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Insights and disclosures: a study of the philosophical theology of Bernard Lonergan and Ian Ramsey
… theology of Canadian Jesuit Bernard Lonergan (1904 - 1984) and Anglican Bishop Ian Ramsey (1915 - 1972). We ask whether the views of two theologians from very different backgrounds can be compatible. Lonergan and Ramsey both thought that modern science was a key resource for examining …
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Towards a Synthetic Account of Sin that Merges Magisterial Teaching and Theological Reflection on Sin with the Philosophical Insights of Bernard J.F. Lonergan
… the Canadian philosopher and theologian Bernard Lonergan (1904-84). In his works, especially Insight (1957), Lonergan provides solid foundations for the possibility of sin, ethical knowledge, and human freedom.
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'Exorcising the curse of Sisyphus': English Catholic education and the possibiity of authenticity. A philosophical study after Heidegger, Derrida, Lonergan and Boeve
… mid twentieth century Jesuit theologian, Bernard Lonergan and the contemporary Belgium Catholic philosopher-theologian, Lieven Boeve. In Lonergan, informed by his reading of Heidegger, we see an attempt to focus not merely on education-as-(utilitarian)-knowledge-acquisition, but rather education …
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Three windows on mathematics: the axiomatic method, Lenat's Program AM, and Lonergan's cognitional analysis
… one such study, taken from the work of Bernard Lonergan. Lonergan develops a structure of the cognitional processes that is applicable to all disciplines. This structure, with its levels of experience, understanding, reflection, and decision, is found in mathematics, the scientific method, and …
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Human Rights and Moral Reasoning: A comparative investigation by way of three theorists and their respective traditions of enquiry: John Finnis, Ronald Dworkin and Jürgen Habermas
… by the methodological categories of Bernard Lonergan). The first part, titled «History», maps the central impulses, texts and values that help shape each tradition of enquiry. The second part, «Interpretation», provides a detailed exposition of each of the central theorists. The third part, …
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The Application of Bernard Lonergan's Theory of Conversion to the Three Main Characters in Susan Howatch's Novels of the Starbridge Series
… this dissertation is to demonstrate that Bernard Lonergan's theory of conversion can be applied to the fictional lives of the three main characters in Susan Howatch's novels of the Starbridge series. This will validate Lonergan's theory and provide a comprehensible demonstration of it as well. The …
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Storytelling and conversion in children
… and its use in conversion in children. Bernard Lonergan identifies a three-fold conversion: intellectual, religious and moral. Intellectual conversion allows us to distinguish between the world of immediacy and the world mediated by meaning. Religious conversion points us towards God, and moral …
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The Bride as Symbol: Mechthild von Magdeburg and the Logic of Mysticism
… by Rahner, Tillich, Ricoeur, Eliade, and Lonergan, and explores the connection between the "logic of symbols" and the dynamics of desire, which govern Mechthild's understanding of the soul's essence and ability to return to her divine origin. The logic of symbols opens a new perspective on …
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The extent and relevance of instrumentalism, constructivism and critical realism in high school physical science textbooks : a critical study
… critical realism, and especially that of Bernard Lonergan, can meet this requirement. Reality is more than what is given in sensory experience. Therefore, in order to help solve the problem of relativism and subjectivity inherent in constructivism, we need to revise our notion of reality and …
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An exploration of the lived experience of bulimia nervosa, family-based treatment for anorexia nervosa, and the process of externalisation
… using language and metaphor. Previous research (Lonergan et al., 2022) highlighted some potential barriers of implementing FBT, so this study explores the experience of FBT with YP themselves. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with adolescents attending FBT for AN enquiring about their …
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Becoming the Parent of a School Child: A Psychosocial Approach to Understanding the Transition Process for Parents of Children with SEN
Transitions to educational institutions have received growing attention in recent years, with research directed towards supporting effective transition policies, practices and programmes. In UK based research, minimal attention has been paid to what a parent may experience as their child with SEN …
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Regulation of the Photosynthetic Circadian Rhythm in Euglena Gracilis
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Characterizing the cargo binding and regulatory function of the tail domain in Ncd motor protein
Non-claret disjunctional (Ncd) is a kinesin-14 microtubule motor protein involved in the assembly and stability of meiotic and mitotic spindles in Drosophila oocytes and early embryos, respectively. Ncd functions by cross-linking microtubules through the tail and motor domains. It was originally …
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Envisaging Community in Twenty-First Century US Film and Television: Neoliberalism, Relationality, Ecologies
… the work of three American filmmakers — Kenneth Lonergan, Mike White, and Paul Schrader — whose works, I suggest, can be characterised as narratives of responsibility in their foregrounding of moral questions concerning community in a contemporary neoliberal American context. Yet the depiction of …
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The robotic fac̦ade : a design solution for energy conservation in the CityHome of the future
This project outlines a design for a fac̦ade product that can potentially be used to simplify both the construction and operation of an apartment in an urban setting. Additionally, this fagade module has been conceptualized as a way to improve energy performance, making it the energy hub of the …
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Power operations and central maps in representation theory
The theme of this thesis is the novel application of techniques of algebraic topology (specifically, Steenrod's operations and Smith's localization theory) to representation theory (especially in the context of the geometric Satake equivalence). In Chapter 2, we use Steenrod's construction to prove …
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Religious Pluralism and the Catholic Church: Lonergan's Method and the Jacques Dupuis Controversy
<p>This project applies Lonergan's method to the controversy that resulted from the censure of Jacques Dupuis by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith over his book, Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism. The application of Lonergan's method reveals the potential for the …