This document discusses Bernard Lonergan's notion of "systematics" as a functional specialty within theology. Lonergan proposed a scientific method for theology that divides it into distinct but interrelated specialties. Systematics aims to provide a coherent understanding of theological doctrines through a process of reasoning illuminated by faith. It seeks to understand revealed truths, not prove them with certainty. Systematics understands mysteries analogically rather than univocally, using analogy to relate what is known to what is unknown. The document examines key aspects of Lonergan's method and intentionality analysis that inform his vision of systematics as seeking to understand through judgments guided by religious conversion and love of God.

Matthew C. Ogilvie - Faith Seeking Understanding - The Functional Specialty 'Systematics' in Bernard Lonergan's 'Method in Theology' (Marquette Studies in Theology, #26.) - Marquette Univ PR (2001)

Matthew C. Ogilvie - Faith Seeking Understanding - The Functional Specialty 'Systematics' in Bernard Lonergan's 'Method in Theology' (Marquette Studies in Theology, #26.) - Marquette Univ PR (2001) PDF

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