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Acknowledgments Early outlines for several of these papers were presented in a seminar organized by the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at the College of the Holy Cross. The seminar, and thus much of this research, was made possible by funding from The May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust. I offer the stewards of that trust my heartfelt thanks. I am also grateful to William M. Shea, Director of the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture, for providing a quiet and comfortable environment for serious reflection on important things, and to many friends at the College of the Holy Cross for indispensable moral and intellectual support during the planning and occurrence of the seminar. I also wish to thank my colleague Frederick Lawrence for responding, and in abundance, to my late call for an expression of the Lonerganian perspective that this volume would otherwise have all too evidently lacked. Finally, though surely not least, I am of course grateful to the University of Notre Dame Press, especially Charles Van Hof, who welcomed this volume for publication. vii ...

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