Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-313) and index.

Ch. 1. Introduction. 1. What is "Systematics"? 2. Bernard Lonergan. 3. Issues to be Addressed. 4. The Method of this Book -- Ch. 2. Teaching Theology - "Under Impossible Conditions" 1. Lack of Specialisation. 2. Theology's Classicist Assumptions. 3. Isolation from Modern Thought. 4. Lack of an Adequate "Scientific" Methodology -- Ch. 3. Classicism and Modernity. 1. The Aristotelian Notion of Science. 2. Modern Science and the Advent of Critical Empirical Method. 3. Modern Mathematics and Twentieth Century Physics. 4. Modern Philosophy. 5. Modern History -- Ch. 4. Theology's Needs and Lonergan's Vision for New Methodological Foundations. 1. The Needs of Theology. 2. A New Beginning. 3. Towards a New Methodological Foundation -- Ch. 5. Lonergan's Intentionality Analysis. 1. Preliminary Clarifications. 2. The Triple Cord of Human Knowing. 3. Experience. 4. The Pure Desire to Know. 5. Understanding I - Insight. 6. Understanding II - Conception.

7. Understanding II - Intellectualism and Conceptualism. 8. Judgement. 9. Influences on Lonergan's Position. 10. Consciousness and Self-Knowledge. 11. Moral Decision. 12. Being in Love. 13. Formal Dynamism and Sublation in Human Intentionality. 14. Replies to Disputes. 15. The Notion of Transcendental Method -- Ch. 6. Lonergan's Method in Theology. 1. Lonergan's Notion of Theology. 2. Lonergan's Intentions for a Theological Method. 3. Lonergan's Notion of Method. 4. The Division of Functional Specialties. 5. The Functional Specialties. 6. The Need for the Division. 7. The Grounds of the Division -- Ch. 7. The Functional Specialty, Systematics. 1. The Function of Systematics. 2. Mystery, Problem, and the Need for Systematics' Understanding. 3. Judgement and Understanding. 4. Faith, Belief and Understanding. 5. Doctrines and Understanding. 6. Does Systematics Seek Certitude? 7. Systematics as "Reason Illumined by Faith".

8. Understanding Revealed Truth and the "Downward" Mode. 9. The Primacy of Love -- Ch. 8. Understanding the Mysteries "by Analogy" 1. Aquinas' Formulations on Analogy. 2. Lonergan's Writings on Analogy. 3. Brief Examples of Analogy. 4. An Analogous Conception of the Divine Persons -- Ch. 9. Understanding the Mysteries "from Interconnections" 1. Preliminary Examples of Understanding from Interconnections. 2. Lonergan's Theory Behind Understanding the Mysteries from their "Interconnections" 3. Examples of Interconnections. 4. Interconnections with "Man's Last End -- Ch. 10. Value and Place of Systematics. 1. Personal Appropriation. 2. An Understanding for Teaching. 3. An Apologetic. 4. An Understanding for Ongoing Cultures. 5. Systematics and Communications. 6. A Scientific Understanding. 7. Cultural Intelligibility Balanced with Doctrinal Continuity. 8. Systematics and Pluralism. 9. Relevance to non-Catholic Religions. 10. How have I Understood? --

Ch. 11. Evaluations. 1. Systematics and the Norms of Modernity. 2. Coherence with Human Subjectivity. 3. Has Lonergan Overcome Classicism? 4. Development in Systematics. 5. Analogy and Official Catholic Teaching -- Ch. 12. Conclusion. 1. Systematics and Lonergan's New Beginning. 2. The Function of Systematics. 3. Usefulness of and Need for Systematics.