Joshua McManaway
@jrmcmanaway.bsky.social
Asst Prof of the Practice, MICL @ University of Notre Dame. Academic Director, "Take a Second Look." Researches intersection of Syriac and Latin Christianity.
Here 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?
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Here 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?
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ANNOUNCEMENT: 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-...
The Way to Nicaea Symposium
The Bernard J. Lonergan Institute is hosting an afternoon symposium on Lonergan’s account of Nicene doctrine’s intellectual development through...
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August 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT: 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-...
I 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
August 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I 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
Notre 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!
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July 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Notre 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!
If you are interested and want to talk to someone who's at ND, please reach out to me!
Just 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"
June 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Just 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"
I 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.
May 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I 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.
I 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.
@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.
April 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I 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.
@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.
"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.
February 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
"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.
The 2024 movie “Conclave” dares to ask the bold question: what if we made cardinals out of people who failed their 6th grade religion class?
February 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The 2024 movie “Conclave” dares to ask the bold question: what if we made cardinals out of people who failed their 6th grade religion class?
On 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.
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.
February 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
On 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.
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.
Thinking 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.
February 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Thinking 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.
"...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...
This remains one of my favorite CLJ essays to date.
churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/tea...
Teaching for Intellectual Conversion: Introductory Theology at the Level of Our Times
Roberto De La Noval on students.
churchlifejournal.nd.edu
February 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"...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...
This remains one of my favorite CLJ essays to date.
churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/tea...
Another 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.
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.
February 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Another 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.
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.
I 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?
February 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I 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?
My 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.edu/about/center...
Preaching Mary // McGrath Institute for Church Life // University of Notre Dame
Tap into Notre Dame's intellectual resources and join other Catholic leaders in addressing today's pastoral challenges.
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February 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
My 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.edu/about/center...
"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
Hilary, De Trinitate, 2.2
February 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
"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
Hilary, De Trinitate, 2.2
The 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.
February 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The 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.
As 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.
February 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
As 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.
Did everyone else already know that Jerry Orbach was the voice of Lumiere in the 91 Beauty and the Beast?!
December 30, 2024 at 1:01 PM
Did everyone else already know that Jerry Orbach was the voice of Lumiere in the 91 Beauty and the Beast?!
This book is so good so far. A Lonerganian NT book is right up my alley.
December 17, 2024 at 11:57 PM
This book is so good so far. A Lonerganian NT book is right up my alley.
I 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.
December 17, 2024 at 12:58 AM
I 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.
Reposted by Joshua McManaway
ANNOUNCEMENT:
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/offerings
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/offerings
Module Offerings · PBI
pbi.forgingploughshares.org
December 11, 2024 at 8:07 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT:
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/offerings
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/offerings
I'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.
December 11, 2024 at 6:45 PM
I'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.
This is an incredible opportunity and you should take advantage of it.
If you know Syriac & want to read w/ comrades in a chill setting, my reading group meets Wed, 10am EST (Zoom). Suitable for beginning/intermediate readers. Now in Evagrius, Letter to "Melania".
*free*
*funded by the Ptarmigan Fund (Rel. St., Stanford)*
Message me for the link, if interested ✌️
*free*
*funded by the Ptarmigan Fund (Rel. St., Stanford)*
Message me for the link, if interested ✌️
December 11, 2024 at 1:02 AM
This is an incredible opportunity and you should take advantage of it.
Reposted by Joshua McManaway
PREVIEW: 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
"Lonergan & the Problem of Theological Method"
From the week of February 16 to April 6
Cost: $150
Short description below
December 10, 2024 at 9:50 PM
PREVIEW: 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
"Lonergan & the Problem of Theological Method"
From the week of February 16 to April 6
Cost: $150
Short description below