{"id":284,"date":"2025-02-24T18:39:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/lonergan-sproul-bahnsen\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T18:39:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:39:30","slug":"lonergan-sproul-bahnsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/lonergan-sproul-bahnsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonergan, Sproul, Bahnsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">A tip of the hat to <a href=\"https:\/\/anthonygflood.com\/\">Tony Flood<\/a> for supplying me with the following important documents:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Bernard Lonergan, <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/archive\/6877142\/religion-the-answer-is-the-question\/\">Religion: The Answer is the Question<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thecslewis-studygroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Sproul-Bahnsen-Debate-Transcript.pdf\">R. C. Sproul and Greg Bahnsen Debate<\/a> (full transcript)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I had asked Tony whether he had a copy of Lonergan&#39;s <em>Method in Theology<\/em> he was willing to part with.&#0160; Here is his reply:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">I don&#39;t think you asked, Bill,&#0160;but the answer is yes. Since, however, he signed it when I visited him at a Jesuit infirmary in 1983 (you might enjoy my account of that meeting&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/anthonygflood.com\/2018\/11\/bernard-lonergans-insight-on-becoming-an-intellectually-fulfilled-theist\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>), it is priceless. (You are free to test that claim. (:^D)) Should I sense that the end&#0160;is near, I&#39;ll donate it to the Lonergan Institute as I did so much Lonergania a couple of&#0160;years ago. The April 20, 1970 issue of&#0160;<em>Time&#0160;<\/em>covered what he was up to in theology; here&#39;s a&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/archive\/6877142\/religion-the-answer-is-the-question\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>link to the text<\/strong><\/a>. It will help contextualize him. (<a href=\"https:\/\/anthonygflood.com\/2024\/04\/is-green-the-new-red-why-on-earth-does-earth-day-fall-on-lenins-birthday\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>I know where I was<\/strong><\/a> that&#0160;month.)&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tip of the hat to Tony Flood for supplying me with the following important documents: Bernard Lonergan, Religion: The Answer is the Question R. C. Sproul and Greg Bahnsen Debate (full transcript) I had asked Tony whether he had a copy of Lonergan&#39;s Method in Theology he was willing to part with.&#0160; Here is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/lonergan-sproul-bahnsen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lonergan, Sproul, Bahnsen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252,192,253,63,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lonergan-bernard","category-presuppositionalism","category-sproul-r-c","category-theology","category-van-til-and-presuppositionalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}