Disciplines, whether or not overtly spiritual, have their place. But we follow them healthily only if we can move beyond them, only if we are captivated by the promise of new possibilities which they enable, only if they open us to the freedom of God. It is this complex interplay between commitment and freedom that we are exploring and celebrating as we present the special number of The Way for 2004 which focuses particularly on three theologians all born exactly 100 years ago: Bernard Lonergan, John Courtney Murray and Karl Rahner. All three were Jesuits, formed within a distinctive set of spiritual and intellectual structures; all three passionately pursued the knowledge of God in which, as Cranmer puts it, ‘stands our eternal life’; all three strove to widen the Church’s vision, and to pioneer theologies ever more sensitive to the divine expansiveness. Their contributions to the Second Vatican Council were significant. They modelled a life of the mind that nourished, rather than constricted, the life of the Spirit. They taught us that healthy commitment is constantly expanding us, opening us up to new confrontations with the God who speaks in the otherness of our experience.
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