The Challenge of Lonergan’s Thought

The Reach of Critical Realism

Dr. Andrew Beards (Allen Hall Seminary)

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Bloomsbury Academic
11 December 2025

Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Theology

In challenging us to be conscious of our own subjectivity, Bernard Lonergan set out an updated mode of Aristotelian epistemology that took insights from every major philosophical tradition of the modern era. This book explains how that unique positioning makes his ideas perfectly placed to bridge the divide between analytic and continental philosophy.

Andrew Beards uses Lonergan’s approach not only to understand the many connections between analytic and continental traditions, but to engage with them in new and creative ways. Throughout, he puts Lonergan into conversation with other leading thinkers like St John Henry Newman, G. E. Moore, Friedrich Nietszche and L. M. Chauvet, drawing on Lonergan’s own direct engagement with their philosophies to underscore the wide-ranging significance of his transcendental method.

By: Dr. Andrew Beards (Allen Hall Seminary)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350459243
ISBN 10: 1350459240
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 11 December 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Andrew Beards is lecturer and tutor at Allen Hall Seminary, where he teaches on the Pontifical degree course offered with St Mary's University, Twickenham. He is the author of Objectivity and Historical Understanding (1997), Method in Metaphysics: Lonergan and the Future of Analytical Philosophy (2008), Insight and Analysis (2010), Philosophy the Quest for Truth and Meaning (2010), and Lonergan, Meaning and Method (2018).

Reviews for The Challenge of Lonergan’s Thought: The Reach of Critical Realism

The breadth of Beards' engagement with 19th century and contemporary philosophers – from Newman to Heidegger, from Nietzsche to G. E. Moore and Gila Sher — demonstrates the depth of Bernard Lonergan's epistemic foundations. Aware of these depths, Beards is also aware of the heights to which Lonergan aspired and attained in connecting St. Thomas's explicit appreciation of theology as a science with the foundations he excavated and made explicit in the Verbum articles and Insight. Beards continues to be a trustworthy contemporary custodian of Lonergan's legacy. * Father Guy Mansini, Professor of Systematic Theology, Ave Maria University, US *