Method in Theology: From [1 + 1/n]nx to {M (W3)θΦT}4

Abstract

McShane’s Essay, “Method in Theology: From [1 + 1/n]^nx to {M (W₃)^θΦT}⁴”, takes off from a puzzling piece of a 1954 letter of Lonergan to Fred Crowe, which Crowe and McShane both struggled with, and pushes forward to a more coherent perspective seeded by Lonergan in the decades that span that letter in both time-directions. The theology identified as a vague genetics in 1954 is précised as a well-defined cyclic collaborative structure to emerge in later millennia as “a resolute and effective intervention in this historical process” (Phenomenology and Logic, 306).