Budenholzer, Frank. "Bernard Lonergan as a Process Philosopher." (Conference Paper- International Conference on Creativity and Process: East-West Dialogue 2007).

Abstract

Bernard Lonergan, SJ (1900-1984) was a Catholic philosopher-theologian working within the tradition of Thomist philosophy,  His most important philosophical work is Insight: A study of Human undersanding (1992), first published in 1957.  In this paper I wish to consider two elements of Lonergan's thought: (1) the nature of the real as verifed intelligibility, where intelligiblity implies that the real can only be understood as relational and (2) world process as becoming, described by Longergan as emergent probabiltiy. This will be an initial exploration of Longergan's thought in relation to certain key themes in process philosophy.  I leave it to those more familiar with the thought of Whitehead and other process thinkers to determine to what extend Lonergan's thought is congruent with traditional process thought.