Abstract
The Canadian philosopher and Jesuit priest Bernard Lonergan (1904–1984) played a key role in twentieth‐century Catholic theology. A professor at Boston College and at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome during crucial times of change for the historical awareness of Catholicism as well as the author of fundamental works for the methodology of theological work, Lonergan prepared Catholic theology for an encounter with modern science (Insight: A Study of Human Understanding [1957]) and with modern social sciences (Method in Theology [1972]). In order to understand Lonergan it is important to analyze his view of history, as we now can do with this book on Lonergan as a philosopher of history, or better, a philosopher of historiography. Thomas J. McPartland introduces us to the key concepts of Lonergan's view of historiography. First, McPartland discusses the “horizon of the questioner”: Lonergan defines this horizon as a “concrete synthesis of concrete...
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