text: Finally, I resonate with the notion that our past value-realizations shouldn't lead to pie in the sky & that the value-frustrations of both the secular order - scientific, cultural, philosophic, economic, social & political, as well as the sacred - eschatological, soteriological, sacramental, ecclesiological & sophiological (dimensions of all religions), shouldn't lead to doom & gloom. Humility offers the golden mean. The Spirit offers consolations, a seal, an earnest, a down payment, a guarantee, first fruits to bolster our outlooks!
  
  Lonergan's secular conversions - intellectual, affective, moral & social - gift an essential authenticity, a shared soteriological trajectory of the great traditions, which then offer diverse sophiological trajectories that gift sustained authenticity via different ways of being in love with God, others, cosmos & even self (polydoxy)! The Gospel, in my view, best reveals the desiring, behaving, belonging & beatitude that I could ever hope to believe in!