biography
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Lonergan, Bernard (Joseph Francis)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1904–85)
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| biography:
| Jesuit theologian and philosopher, born in Buckingham, Quebec, SE Canada. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1922, and was appointed professor of systematic theology at the Gregorian University, Rome (1954–65). The findings of his massive and seminal studies are summarized in Philosophy of God, and Theology (1973) and Understanding and Being (1980). His other interests in theology and the history of ideas were explored in occasional papers, assembled in his Collections (1967, 1974, 1985). |
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