Lonergan Centre

We pursue our activities in partnership with a number of people and agencies. Currently, we are working in the following areas:

Economics, Business Ethics and Community Economic Development:

• Kenneth R. Melchin, Ph. D. (Université Saint-Paul)
• Morag McAleese (Université Saint-Paul)
• Charles Tackney, Ph. D. (Copenhagen Business School)
• Francis McLaughlin, Ph. D.
• David Coghlan, Ph. D. (Trinity College Dublin)
• John Little, Ph. D. (Lonergan Centre, Sydney, Australia)
• Jamie Price, Ph. D. (Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution et Sargent Shriver Peace Institute, George Mason University)
• J. Michael Stebbins, Ph. D. (Avera Health)

Insight, Peace and Conflict:

• Kenneth R. Melchin, Ph. D. (Université Saint-Paul)
• Cheryl A. Picard, Ph. D. (Centre for Conflict Education and Research, Carleton University)
• Andrea Bartoli, Ph.D. (Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University et Center for International Conflict Resolution, Columbia University)
• Jamie Price, Ph. D. (Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution et Sargent Shriver Peace Institute, George Mason University)
• Neil C. Sargent (Centre for Conflict Education and Research, Carleton University)

Other areas of application of Lonergan:

• Dr. Catherine E. Clifford (Saint Paul University): Ecclesiology and Ecumenism
• Dr. Margaret Myrtle Power (Saint Paul University): Religious Education and Learning Theory

The research and activities of the Centre have been made possible due to financial support from Saint Paul University.

Doctoral theses

Profit and the Common Good: The Relevance of Bernard Lonergan’s Work to Discussions in Catholic Social Ethics on Ethics and Economics (2007)
by Dr. Darlene O’Leary
Director: Dr. Kenneth R. Melchin, Faculty of Theology

The Role of Feelings in Informed Consent: An Application of Bernard Lonergan’s Work on Affect and Cognition (2001)
by Dr. Hazel Joyce Markwell
Director: Dr. Hubert Doucet, Faculty of Theology

Pluralism and the structure of ethical discourse: insights from Lonergan, MacIntyre, and conflict resolution (1999)
by Dr. Peter L. Monette
Director: Dr. Kenneth R. Melchin, Faculty of Theology

Ethics and Sustainable Development: An Application of Bernard Lonergan’s Genetic Method (1998)
by Dr. Paul David Lewis
Director: Dr. Kenneth R. Melchin, Faculty of Theology

Extending Bernard Lonergan’s Ethics: Parallels Between the Structures of Cognition and Evaluation (1995)
by Dr. Joseph P. Cassidy
Director: Dr. James R. Pambrun, Faculty of Theology

Ethics and imagination : contributions from the work of Paul Ricœur to Bernard Lonergan’s intentionality analysis (1994)
by Dr. Michael Bruce Patrick George
Director: Dr. Kenneth R. Melchin, Faculty of Theology

The teachability of the heart: theological ethics in the work of John Calvin (1509-1564) (1992)
by Dr. James B. Sauer
Director: Dr. Kenneth R. Melchin, Faculty of Theology

Graduate Seminar Papers

Philosophical perspectives on corporate social responsibility : theory and practice (2010)
by Jessie C. MacNeil
Director: Dr. Kenneth R. Melchin, Faculty of Theology

An exploration and development of the significance of satire and humour in Bernard Lonergan’s ethical framework (2010)
by Amy Pauley
Directeur : Kenneth R. Melchin, Ph.D., Faculté de théologie

From abstract Catholic social thought principles to the concrete in the common good model of business: insights from the work of Bernard Lonergan (2008)
by Morag McConville
Director: Dr. Kenneth R. Melchin, Faculty of Theology

Theoretical differentiation and the development of doctrine: elements for an approach to doctrinal pluralism based on the work of Bernard Lonergan (2005)
by Derek Bianchi Melchin
Director: Dr. James R. Pambrun, Faculty of Theology

The contribution of Bernard Lonergan’s cognitional theory to a canonist’s understanding of moral certitude (1997)
by Thomas P. Ferguson
Director: Dr. Lynda Robitaille, Faculty of Canon Law

Intellect, feelings and moral/ethical decision-making: a Lonerganian perspective (1996)
by Hazel J. Markwell
Director: Dr. Hubert Doucet, Faculty of Theology

The Lonergan community brings together scholars and people interested in Lonergan’s legacy from around the planet. We invite you to visit these other sites dedicated to furthering Lonergan’s work:

• The Lonergan Research Institute (University of Toronto, Regis College)
• The Lonergan Website (Concordia University)
• The Lonergan Institute (Boston College)
• Bernard Lonergan en français (Pierrot Lambert)
• The Bernard J. Lonergan Institute (Seton Hall University)
• The Los Angeles Lonergan Center (Loyola Marymount University)
• The Dublin Lonergan Centre (National University of Ireland, Milltown Institute)
• The Lonergan Centre, Sydney
• The Lonergan Institute: for the Good Under Construction (St. Anselm’s Abbey, Washington)
• The Woodstock Theological Center (Georgetown University)
• Lonergan en Latinoamérica

Lonergan related journals:

• Method
• Lonergan Workshop
• The Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis

Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan

• University of Toronto Press

Our partners and collaborators:

• Centre for Conflict Education and Research (Carleton University)
• Peace Corps Master’s International Curriculum (Gonzaga University)
• Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (George Mason University)
• Sargent Shriver Peace Institute (George Mason University)