Empowering Climate-Change Strategies with Bernard Lonergan's Method

by John Raymaker, Ijaz Durrani (With)

Overview

This book addresses the climate change crisis through scientific, historical, and spiritual lenses. Using Bernard Lonergan’s functional specialization method, developed to facilitate collaboration among specialists, Raymaker and Durrani not only analyze data and rebut the claims of climate change deniers, but also look for inspiration to motivate and coordinate needed action by persons, groups, and nations. The book is wide-ranging in its historical examination of leaders who have shown us ways to work together constructively in finding solutions to problems. Lonergan’s method helps us study the past with a view to change the future. To do so, we must first reform ourselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761865131
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	12/26/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	178
File size:	803 KB

About the Author

John Raymaker holds a PhD in interdisciplinary social ethics. He has spent many years in Japan, working at the Oriens Institute for Religious Research and studying Buddhism. He has published on social ethics, Christian-Buddhist relations, and world spiritualties.

Ijaz Durrani is a scholar of Plasma Physics with more than four decades of teaching and research experience. He has published a number of books on physics both internationally and within Pakistan.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Putting Climate Change Issues and Lonergan’s Method in Perspective
Bernard Lonergan’s Approach to Collaborative Networking: Universal Values in the Face of Our Environmental and Other Crises; Toward Possible Solutions
Historical Background to Insight’s Cognitional Theory: Its Originality and Importance
Method in Theology’s Eight Functional Specialties (FS) and Its Two Phases
How MiT’s Diphase Eight FS Can Open Up New Horizons in Climate Studies
Rationale behind Method in Theology’s Eight FS Being Treated within the Two Phases
Part II: Analyzing Our Present Climate Crises with a View to Sketch a Remedy
First Functional Specialty: Research and Gathering Relevant Data on Climate Change
Second Functional Specialty: Analyzing and Interpreting the Data on Climate Changes
Third Functional Specialty: Historical Perspectives on Climate Changes: Some Implications
Fourth Functional Specialty: Dealing with the Implications of Climate Changes: The Strategic Roles of Operators, Dialectic, Wisdom, and Ethics
The Pivotal Notion of “Complementarity” in Lonergan: Transition to Part III
Part III: Seeking Effective Ways to Remedy Impending Disasters Caused by Climate Changes (By Way of the Mediated Phase’s Last Four Functional Specialties)
Monstrous Storms and a Need for Far-Reaching Remedies: A GEM-FS Key
Fifth Functional Specialty: Reinstating the Foundations Neglected by Many
Sixth Functional Specialty: Policies for Implementing Universal Values Today
Seventh Functional Specialty: Dealing with Systemic Shortcomings in Caring for Our Climates
Climate Changes and Conflicts If the Changes Become Too Great to Reverse—Some Proposals
Eighth Functional Specialty: Sharing Human Universal Values across the Divides
Postscript
Appendix I: GEM Conjugates: How They Rethink Galileo
Appendix II: GEM Conjugates: How They Rethink Aristotle
Appendix III: The Notion of Judgment in Newman and Lonergan
Appendix IV: How Monsanto Is Planning to Profit from Climate Changes
Appendix V: Summarizing Notions of the Cosmic Common Good in Aquinas and Scheid
Appendix VI: Multinational Corporations (MNC’s)
Appendix VII: Monsanto and Reaching Climate Danger Threshold by 2036
Bibliography