The Quest for God and the Good Life

Acknowledgments

Ac k n o w l e d g m e n ts Like all good things for which one person takes credit, this book has been a team effort. When I reflect on the many people without whom I could not have completed this work, I am tempted to thank the communion of saints, living and dead, united with God. Due to our interconnectedness, only gratitude so expansive would do justice to the great breadth of assistance I have received. Still, there are those whose depth of help and influence merits at least a special mention: Rev. Raymond Kemp, Otto Hentz, SJ, James Walsh, SJ, Fred and Sue Lawrence, M. Shawn Copeland, Charles Hefling, Stephen Brown, Louis Roy, OP, Patrick Byrne, Joseph Flanagan, SJ, Sr. Lorraine Forster, Gasper LoBiondo, SJ, Grant Kaplan, Jeremy Wilkins, Rene Sanchez, Christian Krokus, Joseph Mudd, Chris Jacobs-Vandergeer, Kevin Vander Schel, Suzanne Hevelone , Chris Lee, Kerry Cronin, Bob Doran, SJ, Gilles Mongeau, SJ, Peter Bisson, SJ, Robin Koning, SJ, Rev. John Foster, Joseph Everson, MM, Msgr. Richard Liddy, Monica Olsson, the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, the Woodstock fellows, my friends and colleagues at the University of San Francisco (particularly my colleagues in the department and the students in two Lonergan seminars who commented on a draft of this work), the Bradley Foundation and the Fund for Theological Education (for funded fellowships), the University of Toronto Press (for allowing the reproduction of a chart in chapter 4), CUA Press editors James Kruggel, Theresa Walker, and Aldene Fredenburg, my siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, my wise, loving parents, and my patient, dedicated wife, Eveline. vii ...