The chapter on religion in Bernard Lonergan’s Method in Theology is a rich compilation of many ideas that were important to his thought throughout his career. It is at once a theory of ‘genuine’ religion, a theory of the distortions of such religion, and an expansion of his theology of grace into a wider ecumenical multi-religious or universalist context, to name a few. This essay draws upon that chapter to investigate a further development of Lonergan’s thought of a fourth stage of meaning to be added to his three stages of meaning. Among other things, the fourth stage of meaning anticipates a global age of inter-religious and social cooperation. It also enables one to avoid the danger of the third stage with an overemphasis on interiority by bringing emphases upon vertical and horizontal alterity. Moreover, in the context of Method in Theology as a whole, this theory also raises questions about the future of systematic theology in view of the emerging fourth stage as a distinct differentiated realm.

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进一步沿着意义的第四阶段：Lonergan、Alterity 和“真正的”宗教

伯纳德·罗纳根 (Bernard Lonergan) 的《神学方法论》中关于宗教的章节是对他整个职业生涯中的思想很重要的许多思想的丰富汇编。它既是“真正”宗教的理论，又是此类宗教扭曲的理论，也是他将恩典神学扩展到更广泛的普世多宗教或普世主义背景中的理论，仅举几例。本文借鉴这一章来探讨罗纳根关于将第四阶段意义添加到他的三个阶段意义的思想的进一步发展。除其他外，意义的第四阶段预示着宗教间和社会合作的全球时代。它还使人们能够通过强调纵向和横向的异质性来避免第三阶段过分强调内部性的危险。而且，