John Krambuhl
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EdD🍎| Metacognition, Spiritual Exercises, Institutional Analysis | Cor ad cor loquitur
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Tolkien gave maybe the best answer to all of this in The Silmarillion, where the Creation is a song, and where the discordant music Melkor adds to it gets woven into the music and makes it even better, the way a harsh diminished chord can lead satisfyingly to a harmonic resolution.
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Tolkien gave maybe the best answer to all of this in The Silmarillion, where the Creation is a song, and where the discordant music Melkor adds to it gets woven into the music and makes it even better, the way a harsh diminished chord can lead satisfyingly to a harmonic resolution.
Every once and awhile I take a moment to admire this Table of Contents again. It makes me so happy. I’m reading Revelation to get primed!
Theo-Drama 4 really is a lot of fun. I’d be willing to do some kind of Christmas break “course” on it if anyone wants. We can Zoom about it or something.
November 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Every once and awhile I take a moment to admire this Table of Contents again. It makes me so happy. I’m reading Revelation to get primed!
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Theo-Drama 4 really is a lot of fun. I’d be willing to do some kind of Christmas break “course” on it if anyone wants. We can Zoom about it or something.
November 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Theo-Drama 4 really is a lot of fun. I’d be willing to do some kind of Christmas break “course” on it if anyone wants. We can Zoom about it or something.
“If I have acknowledged a profound change in the structure and in the procedure of Catholic theology, I must add that the change envisaged has long been awaited, that it is carefully motivated, that it is substantially limited…
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John Henry Newman is now a Doctor of the Church – VIDEO
YouTube video by ROME REPORTS in English
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November 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
“If I have acknowledged a profound change in the structure and in the procedure of Catholic theology, I must add that the change envisaged has long been awaited, that it is carefully motivated, that it is substantially limited…
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“How you and I conceptualize our relationships with one another and to the world in which we live is, in my judgment, the foundation on which systems of order are constituted in human societies.“ - Vincent Ostrom
October 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
“How you and I conceptualize our relationships with one another and to the world in which we live is, in my judgment, the foundation on which systems of order are constituted in human societies.“ - Vincent Ostrom
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In case you wanted to watch the livestream of the Lonergan Institute's Way to Nicaea Symposium from last Thursday, you can still find a recording of it up on youtube: www.youtube.com/live/K8Jsuko...
The Way to Nicaea Symposium
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October 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
In case you wanted to watch the livestream of the Lonergan Institute's Way to Nicaea Symposium from last Thursday, you can still find a recording of it up on youtube: www.youtube.com/live/K8Jsuko...
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fyi, the “personal response to personal address” thing is Balthasar’s most typical condensation of Ignatian spirituality
“Man, to be whole, must make himself…the answering word. In order to affirm himself, in order to advance to the fullest consciousness of himself, he must express himself toward God as he whom God has created in love and addressed.”
October 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
fyi, the “personal response to personal address” thing is Balthasar’s most typical condensation of Ignatian spirituality
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In the Topics in Education lectures, Lonergan uses a calculus metaphor to articulate is theory of historical process and Pat Byrne at BC once made a graph to illustrate this idea of the "differentials of the good." I finally went and found it:
October 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
In the Topics in Education lectures, Lonergan uses a calculus metaphor to articulate is theory of historical process and Pat Byrne at BC once made a graph to illustrate this idea of the "differentials of the good." I finally went and found it:
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Amazon’s selling Ryan Hemmer’s excellent book, The Death and Life of Speculative Theology: a Lonergan Idea, for 75% off a.co/d/5xqbwTn
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October 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Amazon’s selling Ryan Hemmer’s excellent book, The Death and Life of Speculative Theology: a Lonergan Idea, for 75% off a.co/d/5xqbwTn
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New paper on the influence of cybernetics - in particular, the work of Ross Ashby - on the work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom. Now open access in the Journal of Institutional Economics. DOI: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
June 7, 2024 at 9:08 AM
New paper on the influence of cybernetics - in particular, the work of Ross Ashby - on the work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom. Now open access in the Journal of Institutional Economics. DOI: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
🔥 For sports lovers, the social institutions of sport often carry root-deep cultural and personal meaning with heavily accented vital and religious energy, e.g., the Patroclus Games in the Iliad, or the Miracle on Ice of the 1980 Winter Olympics. As Catholic missionaries long recognized,
I don’t feel strongly enough about baseball for the amount of energy people have about my one post about baseball.
October 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🔥 For sports lovers, the social institutions of sport often carry root-deep cultural and personal meaning with heavily accented vital and religious energy, e.g., the Patroclus Games in the Iliad, or the Miracle on Ice of the 1980 Winter Olympics. As Catholic missionaries long recognized,
🤔 A rhetorical appreciation: I like how Anne’s brand of earnest irony here reveals what often happens when the illative sense meets the sense of humor and fun, and then how, upon reflection, humor and fun are leveraged to return us to a more full and earnest illative. 🥋
This is canon to me now. It’s too fun.
October 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🤔 A rhetorical appreciation: I like how Anne’s brand of earnest irony here reveals what often happens when the illative sense meets the sense of humor and fun, and then how, upon reflection, humor and fun are leveraged to return us to a more full and earnest illative. 🥋
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“Human science wants to be a science of prediction… (not) a moral science that would exhibit to free people their choices… & leave them to choose. It wants to conceive people as atoms, find out the forces that move them, & predict what they will do whether they choose or not.”
Bernard Lonergan
Bernard Lonergan
October 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
“Human science wants to be a science of prediction… (not) a moral science that would exhibit to free people their choices… & leave them to choose. It wants to conceive people as atoms, find out the forces that move them, & predict what they will do whether they choose or not.”
Bernard Lonergan
Bernard Lonergan
A relatedly cool sentence which might be wrong: “I naturally believe that every genuine act of human creativity is simultaneously an innovation and a discovery, a marriage of poetic craft and contemplative vision that captures
You shoulda read all the sentences I wrote and deleted today trying to describe the objectivity of a correct judgment. Miserable. Then I thought I said a cool thing about God and I read the next paragraph in Lonergan just to be sure and that paragraph basically meant “that cool thing is wrong.”
October 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
A relatedly cool sentence which might be wrong: “I naturally believe that every genuine act of human creativity is simultaneously an innovation and a discovery, a marriage of poetic craft and contemplative vision that captures
This sentence comparing the intelligibility of mathematical limits and statistical probabilities triggers an insight in me that I needed but was woefully missing when I took calculus and statistics in undergrad.
“[J]ust as intelligence can reach a limit by grasping that there is
“[J]ust as intelligence can reach a limit by grasping that there is
October 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This sentence comparing the intelligibility of mathematical limits and statistical probabilities triggers an insight in me that I needed but was woefully missing when I took calculus and statistics in undergrad.
“[J]ust as intelligence can reach a limit by grasping that there is
“[J]ust as intelligence can reach a limit by grasping that there is
We named him Gus after St. Augustine. He’s a good boy.
October 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
We named him Gus after St. Augustine. He’s a good boy.
I find myself praying with the mediating role of institutions noted in this exhortation to help give social form and concreteness to Christ’s kenotic love by way of coordinating a bones deep reception of grace with an organized, structural mission to lift up the lowly here and now in lived history.
Before the take-having begins, I always think of my old mentor Ralph Del Colle (RIP), who would say, “I try to let the documents take root in me.” Let’s try that today.
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October 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I find myself praying with the mediating role of institutions noted in this exhortation to help give social form and concreteness to Christ’s kenotic love by way of coordinating a bones deep reception of grace with an organized, structural mission to lift up the lowly here and now in lived history.
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I *just* published the second episode of the Lonergan Institute Podcast, this time a wide-ranging conversation with Lyle Enright of Street Psalms
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Episode 2: Art and Self-Presence with Lyle Enright | The Lonergan Institute Podcast
In this episode of the Lonergan Institute Podcast, we are joined by Lyle Enright. Lyle is an author, editor, and scholar who works in the design studio at Street Psalms, "a global network committed to...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I *just* published the second episode of the Lonergan Institute Podcast, this time a wide-ranging conversation with Lyle Enright of Street Psalms
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-bjc4i...
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-bjc4i...
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I don’t mind playing the academic game but in the end I became a scholar out of love for God, and there’s just not any getting around how, for me, the whole reason for being open and irenic and careful and curious and firm is a supernatural reason.
October 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I don’t mind playing the academic game but in the end I became a scholar out of love for God, and there’s just not any getting around how, for me, the whole reason for being open and irenic and careful and curious and firm is a supernatural reason.
I’m watching the Brewers playoff game this afternoon while drinking a St Bernardus 12 and wondering about the heuristics of an embodied reception of love, faith, and hope in contemplative relationship with the Holy Trinity.
October 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I’m watching the Brewers playoff game this afternoon while drinking a St Bernardus 12 and wondering about the heuristics of an embodied reception of love, faith, and hope in contemplative relationship with the Holy Trinity.
“After spending years reaching up to the mind of Aquinas, I came to a twofold conclusion. On the one hand, that reaching had changed me profoundly. On the other hand, that change was the essential benefit. For not only did it make me capable of grasping what,
My dissertation (metaphysics and poetry in Balthasar) is essentially testimony to the radically transformed person I became through grad school, only parts of which had anything to do with my courses.
So yeah I don’t really get people who don’t think of scholarship as metanoia.
So yeah I don’t really get people who don’t think of scholarship as metanoia.
October 4, 2025 at 1:03 AM
“After spending years reaching up to the mind of Aquinas, I came to a twofold conclusion. On the one hand, that reaching had changed me profoundly. On the other hand, that change was the essential benefit. For not only did it make me capable of grasping what,
“For it is only in as much as men are willing to meet evil with good, to love their enemies, to pray for those that persecute and calumniate them, that the social surd is a potential good.“ – Lonergan, *Insight* p. 721
October 2, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“For it is only in as much as men are willing to meet evil with good, to love their enemies, to pray for those that persecute and calumniate them, that the social surd is a potential good.“ – Lonergan, *Insight* p. 721
“For among the evils that afflict man, none is greater than the erroneous beliefs which at once distort his mind and make systematic the aberrations of his conduct.“ - Lonergan, *Insight* p. 709
CFP: "Belief: Still Today's Issue"
International Institute for Method in Theology
Spring Colloquium (Philosophy Area)
March 6-7, 2026 @ Marquette University
International Institute for Method in Theology
Spring Colloquium (Philosophy Area)
March 6-7, 2026 @ Marquette University
October 2, 2025 at 1:21 AM
“For among the evils that afflict man, none is greater than the erroneous beliefs which at once distort his mind and make systematic the aberrations of his conduct.“ - Lonergan, *Insight* p. 709
I’ll die on this hill. Lonergan, in *Insight*, is funny. Probably because he’s sort of slap happy from all the intense intellectual work that went into writing it. “Let us consider a kitten” is Exhibit A.
He’s funny! Uniquely silly and deadpan simultaneously. “It follows that if an electronic computer were supplied with the premises from this chapter, it could not conclude to any specialized precepts. However, I am writing not for electronic computers but for men…“ - *Insight* p. 619
September 29, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I’ll die on this hill. Lonergan, in *Insight*, is funny. Probably because he’s sort of slap happy from all the intense intellectual work that went into writing it. “Let us consider a kitten” is Exhibit A.
This could easily be a home run dissertation topic imo
The tale told by the Mormon missionary hermit is as good as The Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov, IMO
September 29, 2025 at 12:07 AM
This could easily be a home run dissertation topic imo