Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one : studies. A theology of our time -- Some background notes to Lonergan's Insight -- Doctrines and historicity in the context of Lonergan's Method in Theology -- Lonergan's early use of analogy -- Transcendental deduction : a Lonerganian meaning and use -- For a phenomenology of rational consciousness -- Objectivity versus projection in Lonergan -- Analogy of proportion : a favorite Lonergan thought-pattern -- How to get insight, and how not to -- Lonergan at the edges of understanding -- The puzzle of the subject as subject in Lonergan -- Potentiality and the real under construction -- Policy : note on a neglected concept -- Part two : essays. Development of doctrine : aid or barrier to Christian unity? -- Development of doctrine -- Salvation as wholeness : theological background for an ecumenical program -- Dogma versus the self-correcting process of learning -- The power of the scriptures : an attempt at analysis -- Some thoughts on dreams and the Ignatian preludes to prayer -- Rethinking the religious state -- Rethinking moral judgments -- Rethinking God-with-us -- Rethinking eternal life : philosophical notions -- Rethinking eternal life : theological notions -- Rethinking the trinity : taking seriously the Homoousios -- The 'world' from Anthony of Egypt to Vatican II -- The dynamics of spirit-body communication -- Is God free to create or not create? -- The writings of Frederick E. Crowe.