Influences
Lonergan names Augustine and John Henry Newman as major influences upon his early thinking. J.A. Stewart's study of Plato's doctrine of ideas was also influential.
In the epilogue to Insight, Lonergan mentions the important personal transformation wrought in him by a decade's apprenticeship to the thought of Thomas Aquinas. He produced two major exegetical studies of Thomas Aquinas: Grace and Freedom, and Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas.
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