Questions and Answers
A series of fifty-six questions and answers that were part of a campaign to identify zones of inquiry where the next generations can focus their thinking, publishing, and professional gathering. In particular, McShane invited questions regarding the character of functional talk, a difficult and novel differentiation of expression necessary for the maturing of the functional collaboration constitutive of a future Cosmopolis.
(Please note that in some of the replies to questions in this series there are hyperlinks to works hosted on an earlier version of this website. All of those essays are now available on this website and can be easily found using the search bar.)
Question 1: Larger Context
Questions 2, 3, 4: Relieving robotics, talk in biosemiotics, “to whom are you talking?”
Question 5: Lonergan Studies as Faulty Research and Communication
Question 6: The Nut in God’s Hands
Question 7: ‘X’ Deserves Passing On
Question 8: Functional Talk in Scripture Study
Question 9: Functional Interpretation
Question 10: Lonerganism
Question 11: How Might We Proceed?
Question 12: Functional Talk and Intellectual Conversion
Question 13: Moving Into Functional Collaboration
Questions 14, 15, 16: Transposing the Ignatian Exercises, Transforming Cultural Matrices, Towards a Theology of Subjectivity
Questions 17, 18, 19: “A Basis of Moving Forward,” A New Context for ‘Obediential Potency,’ The Future Ethos of Doing Theses
Question 20: Unlimited Contemplative Ingestion
Questions 21, 22, 23, 24: The Chemistry of the Searcher, Searching With a Nine-Year Old, Craving Effective Transpositions, Who Are You Three?
Question 25: Functional Collaboration With Hermeneutic Canons
Question 26: Functional Talk in Economics
Question 27: Approaching Doran’s Trinitarian Theology
Question 28: Teaching Genetic Interpretation
Question 29: Archetypes and Semicolons
Question 30: “The Trinity in History”
Question 31: Destructive Disorientations of Lonergan Institutions
Question 32: Restructuring Conferences Towards Effective Collaboration
Question 33: Making Functional Specialization a Topic
Question 34: Some Strategies for Advancing Towards Functional Specialization
Question 35: Revolutions in Lonergan-Studies Meetings
Question 36: An Appeal to Fred Lawrence and Other Elders
Question 37: Jerusalem 2013 and Lonergan’s 1833 Overture
Question 38: Comparing Jones and Smith
Question 39: Comparing Lonergan and Jones
Question 40: Self-luminous Comparing Work
Question 41: Promoting Cyclic Comparing Work
Question 42: The Shift to Science in Scripture Studies
Question 43: The Parting of the Ways in Lonergan Studies
Question 44: An Added Context for Method Chapter One
Question 45: Difficulties of Searching for Trinitarian Meaning
Question 46: Making Operative Fruitful Ideas
Question 47: Moving to Functional History
Question 48: Beyond Crowe’s Theology of the Christian Word
Question 49: Symbolizing Lonergan’s Achievement
Question 50: Towards Global Care
Question 51: You Make My Skin Caul
Question 52: Focus on Concrete Results
Question 53: McShane’s Low-Class Functional Research: What about You?
Question 54: The Cosmic Christ in Mathew Fox and Lonergan
Question 55: Functional History: The First Sentence
Question 56: Breaking Forward to Global Care