Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Here are the readings for my course: "After Notre Dame: The Responsibilities of a Lay Theologian." The course is for seniors who have double-majored in Theology and something else and are very likely to take a job in the other field. What happens when they are outside of the Notre Dame bubble? 010
Reposted by Joshua McManawayJonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 19/08/2025ANNOUNCEMENT: In honor of the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, the Lonergan Institute will host two panels discussing the “Prolegomena” of Lonergan’s 1960s work, The Triune God: Doctrines, since published as *The Way to Nicea*. events.shu.edu/event/42170-...events.shu.eduThe Way to Nicaea SymposiumThe Bernard J. Lonergan Institute is hosting an afternoon symposium on Lonergan’s account of Nicene doctrine’s intellectual development through... 123
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 12/08/2025I was talking with a friend who's an actual Lonerganian and put forward the idea that so many people are so mean and frustrated because the human mind is driven by a desire to know the truth and yet we give people so little training in how one discovers that. So, in a world where people are asked 140
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Notre Dame is hiring in New Testament: apply.interfolio.com/170876 If you are interested and want to talk to someone who's at ND, please reach out to me!apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 044
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Just submitted a paper proposal for PMR titled, "It Takes Two to Make a Thing Go Right: The Pedagogical and Polemical Strategies of John of Damascus’ Contra Nestorianos and De Fide Contra Nestorianos" 020
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 13/05/2025I hate to do the Lonergan thing, but it really seems to me that universities are rolling over on AI so quickly because few academics have given much thought to their own cognition and to what learning and knowing actually are. 041
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 24/04/2025I teach History of the Papacy here at @notredame.bsky.social and there's one thing I know for sure: nobody knows who the next Pope will be. The history of conclaves is a history of surprises and unintended consequences. 010
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 26/02/2025"If a teacher settles a question simply by an appeal to authorities, the students will have their certitude that the facts are indeed as stated; but they will acquire no knowledge or understanding, and they will go away empty." Aquinas, Quaestiones Quodlibetales 4, q. 9, a. 3. 010
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 23/02/2025The 2024 movie “Conclave” dares to ask the bold question: what if we made cardinals out of people who failed their 6th grade religion class? 000
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 22/02/2025On Nazi salutes, I'll quote Aquinas: It belongs to the virtue of truth to show oneself outwardly by outward signs to be such as one is. Now outward signs are not only words, but also deeds....it is contrary to truth to employ signs of deeds or things to signify the contrary of what is in oneself. 093
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Thinking about Augustine and Mary a little more after a convo on X - there's a necessary generosity in reading Augustine's Christology because he uses phrases that, after Neo-Chalcedonianism or Scholasticism, are infelicitous. "Homo Assumptus" caused no small problem among Carolingian authors. 100
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 18/02/2025"...plurality without epistemological foundations nearly inevitably produces relativism in the untrained mind." This remains one of my favorite CLJ essays to date. churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/tea...churchlifejournal.nd.eduTeaching for Intellectual Conversion: Introductory Theology at the Level of Our TimesRoberto De La Noval on students. 070
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Another Take a Second Look class sponsored by the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame taught by William Mattison on CS Lewis and the problem of evil. This is 7pm on a Monday night and the room is full to bursting. 110
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 10/02/2025I take it to be a mark of a learned person that they can entertain ideas with which they disagree, even presenting the very best arguments on the other side. How do we cultivate that in people? 030
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 10/02/2025My institute at Notre Dame is hosting a homiletic competition, focused on preaching about Mary. Check it out here: mcgrath.nd.edu/about/center...mcgrath.nd.eduPreaching Mary // McGrath Institute for Church Life // University of Notre DameTap into Notre Dame's intellectual resources and join other Catholic leaders in addressing today's pastoral challenges. 031
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 10/02/2025"But the errors of heretics and blasphemers force us to deal with unlawful matters, to scale perilous heights, to speak unutterable words, to trespass on forbidden ground. Faith ought in silence to fulfil the commandments..." Hilary, De Trinitate, 2.2 110
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 08/02/2025The more relevant Latin theological phrase is not ordo amoris, but libido dominandi - the lust for domination, a favorite phrase of St. Augustine's. Political spite, glee over the despair of others, "owning" others, trolling others, etc, are all born out of this impulse. 19028
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 05/02/2025As an educator, I have been thinking a lot about how little prepared for moral reasoning a lot of folks are. I am not sure what there is to do about it, especially because one of the major solvents of that has been pushing a STEM only model of education. 130
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Did everyone else already know that Jerry Orbach was the voice of Lumiere in the 91 Beauty and the Beast?! 000
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 17/12/2024This book is so good so far. A Lonerganian NT book is right up my alley. 010
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 17/12/2024I do not think of fundamentalism as someone believing something too much, but rather as a misappropriation of the faith in an ahistorical mode. The solution to this is not less doctrine, but doctrine understood and appropriated well. 060
Reposted by Joshua McManawayJonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 11/12/2024ANNOUNCEMENT: In cooperation with Paul Axton's Forging Ploughshares, I'm offering an 8-week online Lonergan course this Spring. "Lonergan & the Problem of Theological Method" From the week of February 16 to April 6 Cost: $150 Enrollment now live: pbi.forgingploughshares.org/offeringspbi.forgingploughshares.orgModule Offerings · PBI 175
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 11/12/2024I'm in a season of life where I'm thinking more and more about the spaces where I spend my time. The university spent millions of dollars renovating spaces in our library to look like sterile, modern, fluorescent, We Work, Apple store sorts of places. 141
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 11/12/2024This is an incredible opportunity and you should take advantage of it. 050
Reposted by Joshua McManawayJonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 10/12/2024PREVIEW: In cooperation with Paul Axton's Forging Ploughshares, I'm offering an 8-week online Lonergan course this Spring. It will meet by video once a week. "Lonergan & the Problem of Theological Method" From the week of February 16 to April 6 Cost: $150 Short description below 275
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 10/12/2024A video of my talk on Augustine and Graham Greene is finally up on Youtube. Go check it out! youtu.be/fftiog9iHCg?...youtu.beFC24: A Hint of an Explanation – Graham GreeneYouTube video by de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture 020
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 10/12/2024My paper proposal for the North American Patristics Society's meeting in 2025 was accepted! Looking forward to hanging out in Chicago with everyone and talking to some folks about Nestorius! 060
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Laughing at the idea of an Israelite walking around the desert, reading Deuteronomy 12 and thinking, "What temple?!" 020
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Something I tell my students when I'm grading their writing is that you should basically never call something "interesting." If it's interesting, I will be interested. If it's not, no amount of you telling me it is will change my mind. 010
Reposted by Joshua McManawayJoseph (Joe) K. Gordon @josephkgordon.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Attention, folks with significant interest in the work of Bernard Lonergan, many of his Collected Works volumes (and some other important works by his students) are available for 75% off in the Univ. Toronto Press sale. Use the code WINTERSALE75 here: utppublishing.com/topic/featur...utppublishing.com 164
Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway.bsky.social · 20/11/2024If Jerome got to be a saint because he translated so much, shouldn't Fr. Paul Bedjan be up for canonization?! 010