Il contributo di Bernard Lonergan a una teologia dell’esperienza religiosa

Abstract

On the 50th anniversary since the publication of Method in Theology, this study examines Bernard Lonergan’s contribution to a theology of religious experience. Our study focuses mainly on his late writings, in which Lonergan describes religious experience as a dynamic and conscious state of unrestricted and unconditioned being in love, the result of the pouring of God’s love into the human heart (Rom. 5,5). Lonergan’s proposal constitutes an important light for understanding the theological core of those religious experiences that can be said to be “authentic” in a strong sense of the term, that is, in which God, in his universal salvific will, really communicates himself to man in an immediate and interior way.