{"product_id":"the-ambiguity-of-being-lonergan-and-the-problems-of-the-supernatural","title":"The Ambiguity of Being: Lonergan and the Problems of the Supernatural","description":"The debate in Catholic theology over the relationship between the natural and the supernatural has only occasionally engaged with Bernard Lonergan's philosophical and theological contributions on the topic. \u003ci\u003eThe Ambiguity of Being\u003c\/i\u003e argues that more detailed engagement with Lonergan's work implies an oversight in both the 20th- and 21st-century debates. \u003ci\u003eAmbiguity\u003c\/i\u003e argues the controversy has failed to notice how the problem of the natural and the supernatural is, in fact,\u003ci\u003e two\u003c\/i\u003e problems. \u003ci\u003eAmbiguity\u003c\/i\u003e takes both problems in their widest sense to be about action?both divine and human. The first problem asks \u003ci\u003ehow \u003c\/i\u003eGod can act in human action. A question for Christians at least since St. Augustine faced the Pelagian controversy, Lonergan retrieved what he understood to be St. Thomas Aquinas' mature solution. It is a solution gathering together a whole series of theological and philosophical developments into a subtle metaphysical theory of divine and human cooperation. But the recent debates have resituated this problem (and various interpretations of St. Thomas's solution to it) in a modern world with modern concerns about culture and politics for the sake of answering a second, intrinsically related, but really distinct question: \u003ci\u003ewhat \u003c\/i\u003eis God doing in human action? \u003ci\u003eAmbiguity \u003c\/i\u003efinds that the recent controversy almost always finds participants attempting to deduce an answer to the second, modern problem from the medieval, metaphysical Thomist solution to the first. By contrast,\u003ci\u003e Ambiguity\u003c\/i\u003e argues at length the modern problem cannot be reduced to, nor an answer deduced from its medieval, metaphysical partner because the modern problem of the supernatural?what is God doing in human action??is a \u003ci\u003ehermeneutical \u003c\/i\u003eproblem that calls out for a \u003ci\u003ehermeneutical \u003c\/i\u003eanswer. \u003ci\u003eAmbiguity\u003c\/i\u003e sketches a heuristic for what a fully adequate answer to this question would require, suggesting a radical re-conception of modern theology's scope.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Couverture rigide","offer_id":47187918487762,"sku":"9780813238043","price":110.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/indigo-pre-prod.myshopify.com\/fr\/products\/the-ambiguity-of-being-lonergan-and-the-problems-of-the-supernatural","provider":"Indigo Pre-Prod","version":"1.0","type":"link"}