My old acquaintance (45 years) & fellow yat (New Orleanian), the late Jesuit, Don Gelpi, articulated a normative theology of conversion.
His account integrated
- Edwards’ aesthetic object (i.e. Christology),
- Royce’s ethical dynamism &
- Peirce’s logical semiotic, while reframing
- Lonergan’s conversions in terms of experience.
Palamas’ energies, Stăniloae’s affirmation of direct contemplative experience & Bulgakov’s created Sophia seemed to me to fit just such a view & so did von Balthasar’s outlook.
This all squares with an account of faith that’s neither arational nor rationalistic, but defensibly & coherently trans-rational.
Many others are running with Gelpi’s account in other fruitful directions. For example, see Mark Grave’s “Gracing Neuroscientific Tendencies of the Embodied Soul,”
__Philosophy and Theology 26 (1):97-129 (2014) __, wherein he models the brain’s biology using the dispositional tendencies of nature—characterized by Jonathan Edwards, C. S. Peirce & the Jesuit philosophical theologian Donald Gelpi.
Also, see my own project, a tehomic pan-semio-entheism, which affirms a creatio ex profundis within mostly classical theistic contours:
https://paxamoretbonum.wordpress.com/2018/11/29/my-mon-arche-i-tectonic-shift/
Wow. Never heard of Gelpi. Sounds wonderful!
But…I’ll take that Mark Grave article if you’ve got a copy!
Tom
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Here’s a pdf review of his book:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262891147_Mind_Brain_and_the_Elusive_Soul_Human_Systems_of_Cognitive_Science_and_Religion_By_Mark_Graves
If one searches Mark Graves at https://books.google.com/
then one can search inside the electronic edition.
That’s my only access due to … well … financial constraints. 😉
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I first met Gelpi at LoyolaNO at prayer meetings during the dawn of the Charismatic Renewal, circa 1969-70. Amazing homilist. It’s thru him I met Amos Yong. Mark Graves had some relationship with the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, where Gelpi taught. I donated my Gelpi library of almost 20 books to Friends of LSU Library with the rest of my books. My home was overtaken by my library. It’s just me and my phone. Don’t own a computer either. Everything I compose is done with my right thumb 🙂
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