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Wow. It's been a while and I don't suggest anything but a superficial appreciation for Lonergan. However appreciation is to put it mildly. In a real sense, Lonergan is the antidote to the so-called "teaching Pope" - Ratzinger/Benedict and what he represents: platonism - myth elevated to ideology as real. While beautiful in concept and long-standing as the basis of theological, moral and patriarchal absolutism is disastrous and utterly fallible- in a post Galalleo world. Ratzinger did his Phd on Max Scheler and was deeply influenced. Scheler, curiously and ironically, as I "understood" him was at once the founder of "phenomenology" and a platonist. Lonergan, who in some ways is the epitome of phenomenology, respectfully shows how one can (and must) begin with a profound respect for how we know towards what we know; how the person relates to reality (sensing in questioning) towards affirming/confirming/judging that what is perceived is real.