Prof. Fred Lawrence and Sue Lawrence
2007 Lonergan Workshop

The ‘Not Numerous Center’: For Insight’s 50th Anniversaryand Method in Theology’s 35th Anniversary34nd Annual Lonergan WorkshopJune 17-22, 2007, Boston College
Classical culture cannot be jettisoned without being replaced; and what replaces it, cannot but run counter to classical expectations. There is bound to be formed a solid right that is determined to live in a world that no longer exists. There is bound to be formed a scattered left, captivated by now this, now that new development, exploring now this, now that new possibility. But what will count is a perhaps not numerous center, big enough to be at home in both the old and the new, painstaking enough to work out one by one the transitions to be made, strong enough to refuse half-measures and insist on complete solutions even though it has to wait. [B. Lonergan, "Dimensions of Meaning," Collection, Collected Works 4, 244-5]