Theologian
From 1975 to 1978 at Boston College, Helminiak served as teaching assistant to Prof. Bernard Lonergan, SJ (1904–1984), the philosopher, theologian, economist, and methodologist whom Newsweek (April 20, 1970, p. 75) styled the Thomas Aquinas of the twentieth century. Lonergan is reputed to have integrated classical philosophy with contemporary science and, in the process, to have resolved the Kantian problem of knowing any "thing in itself."
Building on the thought of giants of the Western Tradition—such as Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Kant, Hegel, Einstein, Hilbert, Gödel, Heisenberg—Lonergan portrays the human mind as a self-transcending, normatively structured, self-correcting dynamism geared to the universe of "being", all that there is to be known and loved. Lonergan refers to this dimension of the mind as intentional consciousness and frequently also as the human spirit.
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