Everything Is Interconnected: Towards a Globalization with a Human Face and an Integral Ecology

Today’s overlapping social and ecological crises portend Bernard Lonergan’s memorable remark that “the world lies in pieces before us and pleads to be put together again.” The calls of Catholic social teaching for a “humane globalization” and, more recently in Laudato si’, an “integral ecology” only heighten the urgency of this task. Inspired and aided by Lonergan’s thought, this volume presents an array of essays that collectively aspire to answer these pleas. Engaging theology, philosophy, the social sciences, and the natural sciences, the volume’s authors hope to show how in fact “everything is interconnected” in the church’s ongoing task of caring for our common, though fragmented, home. Contributing authors: Nicolas J. Baumgartner, Lucas Briola, John D. Dadosky, Edward Dunar, Benjamin J. Hohman, Thomas Hughson, SJ, Thomas C. McAuley, Joseph Ogbonnaya, Nicholas Olkovich, Jame Schaefer, Paul St. Amour, Cristina Vanin, Kate Ward, Gerard Whelan, SJ.

Joseph Ogbonnaya is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI). He coordinates the “Economics for Humane Globalization” section for the International Institute for Method in Theology. His books include African Perspectives on Culture and World Christianity (2017), African Catholicism and Hermeneutics and Culture (2014) and Lonergan, Social Transformation and Sustainable Human Development (2013).Lucas Briola is Assistant Professor of Theology at Saint Vincent College (Latrobe, PA). He coordinates the “Ecological Culture” section for the International Institute for Method in Theology. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Moral Theology, the Downside Review, and The Lonergan Review.