Empowering Climate-Change Strategies with Bernard Lonergan's Method

By (author) John Raymaker With Ijaz Durrani

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Publication date:

26 December 2014

Length of book:

178 pages

Publisher

UPA

ISBN-13: 9780761865131

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

This book addresses the climate change crisis through scientific, historical, and spiritual lenses. Using Bernard Lonergan’s functional specialization method, developed to facilitate collaboration among specialists, Raymaker and Durrani not only analyze data and rebut the claims of climate change deniers, but also look for inspiration to motivate and coordinate needed action by persons, groups, and nations. The book is wide-ranging in its historical examination of leaders who have shown us ways to work together constructively in finding solutions to problems. Lonergan’s method helps us study the past with a view to change the future. To do so, we must first reform ourselves.

Introduction
Part I: Putting Climate Change Issues and Lonergan’s Method in Perspective
Historical Background to Insight’s Cognitional Theory: Its Originality and Importance
Method in Theology’s Eight Functional Specialties (FS) and Its Two Phases
MiT’s Diphase Eight FS Can Open Up New Horizons in Climate Studies
Method in Theology’s Eight FS Being Treated within the Two Phases
Part II: Analyzing Our Present Climate Crises with a View to Sketch a Remedy
Part III: Seeking Effective Ways to Remedy Impending Disasters Caused by Climate Changes (By Way of the Mediated Phase’s Last Four Functional Specialties)
Eighth Functional Specialty: Sharing Human Universal Values across the Divides
Postscript
Appendix I: GEM Conjugates: How They Rethink Galileo
Appendix II: GEM Conjugates: How They Rethink Aristotle
Appendix III: The Notion of Judgment in Newman and Lonergan
Appendix IV: How Monsanto Is Planning to Profit from Climate Changes
Appendix V: Summarizing Notions of the Cosmic Common Good in Aquinas and Scheid
Appendix VI: Multinational Corporations (MNC’s)
Appendix VII: Monsanto and Reaching Climate Danger Threshold by 2036
Bibliography