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Article: The Divine Initiative: Grace, World-Order, and Human Freedom in the Early Writings of Bernard Lonergan.
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- Theological Studies
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- September 1, 1996
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By J. Michael Stebbins, Toronto: University of Toronto, 1995. Pp. xxii + 399. $65 (Can.).
Stebbins provides a synthetic interpretation of Lonergan's writings on the doctrine of grace from the late 1930s until about 1950. His chief focus is on the unpublished De ente supernaturali: Supplementum schematicum (1946) and on other writings insofar as they illuminate or enlarge the meaning of that central text.
S. generally follows Lonergan's development of theses in De ente supernatural), though with two principal exceptions. Chapter 1 focuses on Lonergan's cognitional theory; this tack is strategically important because Lonergan understands internal actual ...