Held every second year, the Lonergan Workshop brings together international and Australian scholars to explore challenges our world now faces and how each of us can play a role in transforming cultures that underpin these crises. 

Keynote Speaker, Dr Johnathon Heaps will speak on "The Springboard to the Future: How to Create a Modern Culture of Credibility and Cooperation."

Theme in 2023: An Organon for Our Time: Connecting Theory and Practice 

Friday 28 April to Sunday 30 April 2023 

The University of Melbourne, Parkville

Bernard Lonergan was a Canadian Jesuit, a theologian, philosopher and economist. He is author of Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1957), Method in Theology (1972) and For a New Political Economy (1944).

Lonergan argued that empirical view of culture transformed the modern person’s relationship to the past. It is now “the springboard to the future.” Lonergan surmised that this situation calls Christians to an age-old responsibility: “disengagement from a culture that no longer exists involvement in a distinct culture that has replaced it.” Frederick Crowe characterised Lonergan’s Method in Theology as a “new organon” unleashing the potential of the past and effecting a new culture of mutual credibility and cooperation. It is a task which requires the collective weight of the whole human community.

To register and for further information, please go to: www.Lonergan.org.au.