Crowe, innovation in theology

Crowe, "Theology and the Future: Responsible Innovation", Appropriating the Lonergan Idea (1989): headings:
The need of new categories in theology
The relation of the old categories to our new times
The foundations of the new categories
The precedent in our tradition for assigning these foundations
The subjectivity of this approach to doctrines and theology
The role of the community and of intersubjectivity in the process to counteract individualism. (266)

A neat, accessible summary / introduction to Lonergan's suggestions for a future looking theology.

Kierkegaard and objectivity

Wonderful gloss by Fred Crowe on objectivity as the fruit of authentic subjectivity: he brings in Kierkegaard.

The Concluding Unscientific Postscript has as subtitle: An existential contribution.
The two divisions of the volume are: The Objective problem concerning the Truth of Christianity" (less than 1/10 of the work), and The Subjective Problem.
The subtitle of the latter part: The Relation of the Subject to the Truth of Christianity.
Four examples of "thinking directed towards becoming objective", among which: "the problem of what it means to die." Not death as a universal topic, but an existential understanding of death.

Kierkegaard is followed up by Ignatius of Loyola and the Two Standards. And then Crowe becomes quite ill-mannered: he threatens to speak in oratione recta. Phil McShane would love this.

See Crowe, "Theology and the Future: Responsible Innovation," Appropriating the Lonergan Idea (1989) 273-4.

History and interpretation

Crowe clearly explains FS history as following the series of interpretations: you try to trace their sequence and find out what was going on. See his "Theology and the Future: Responsible Innovation," Frederick E. Crowe, Appropriating the Lonergan Idea, ed. Michael Vertin (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1989) 269.