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Showcasing Copleston and Lonergan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Gerald O'Collins SJ*
Affiliation:
Gregorian University (Rome), Parkville, Australia

Abstract

For twelve of the years during which he spent a semester lecturing as a visiting professor at the Gregorian University (Rome), Frederick Copleston enjoyed close contacts with Bernard Lonergan. He was one of the two ‘house’ censors of Insight. He also wrote a very positive review of the book for the Oxford-based Journal of Theological Studies, which was then co-edited by Henry Chadwick. The personal and professional contacts between Copleston and Lonergan have been widely neglected; they call for further study and evaluation.

Type
Original Article
Copyright
Copyright © 2021 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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References

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2 Copleston, F., A History of Philosophy, vol. 9 (London: Search Press, 1975), p. 268Google Scholar, n. 1.

3 Lonergan, B. F., Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, vol. 3, Insight: A Study of Human Understanding, Crowe, F. E. and Doran, R. M. (eds) (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992), p. 9Google Scholar.

4 See Shea, Henry, ‘Copleston, Frederick, SJ’, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Jesuits (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 203–04Google Scholar; Jacques Monet and Frederick Crowe, ‘Bernard J. Lonergan’, ibid., pp. 475–76.