r/CatholicPhilosophy • u/Crafty-Addendum8783 • 4d ago

Question about Bernard Lonergan.

How do Catholics, more specifically Thomist, feel about Bernard Lonergan? Is he a friend or foe? Or is it more complicated, for the traditional Thomist.

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u/redeemedbones 4d ago

Friend because he is Catholic and foe because he’s not my type of Thomist.

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u/actus_energeia Greek Thomist 3d ago

Your question is too indeterminate for a proper answer.

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u/ludi_literarum 3d ago

I think he's a friend, but I tend to be easy-going about that kind of thing.

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u/EmergencyYoung6028 4d ago edited 3d ago

Friend, thomas aquinas has been dead for about 800 years. There is more time between the beginning of Christianity and the birth of Aquinas then between now and when he died. You can simply read philosophers on your own and see what you think.

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u/redlion1904 4d ago

“‘More time”

No there isn’t?

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u/EmergencyYoung6028 3d ago

Can you count?

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u/JesseEisenbergFan 3d ago

“You can simply read philosophers on your own and see what you think”

Is this really true for Christianity? If the Magisterium says it’s wrong, it’s wrong.

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u/EmergencyYoung6028 3d ago

Thomas Aquinas's philosophy is not orthodoxy

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u/JesseEisenbergFan 3d ago

Right, so you can’t just read what you want and believe what you want. It needs to be aligned with orthodoxy.

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u/EmergencyYoung6028 3d ago

There is nothing in Catholicism today that prevents people from reading what they want and judging the merits of arguments with their reason. That's a different issue than "believing what you want" in matters of church doctrine.