Grace and Friendship : Theological Essays in Honor of Fred Lawrence, from his grateful students

This collection of essays celebrates Frederick Goddard Lawrence, a member of the faculty of theology of Boston College for more than forty years, for not only his original theological and philosophical work as a formidable philosopher of hermeneutics, a leading interpreter of the thought of Bernard Lonergan, and an inspiring teacher but also the authenticity and integrity of his scholarship, his teaching, and his life.

The essays comprising this volume explore and develop themes resonant in the work of both Lawrence and Lonergan including interiority analysis and self-appropriation, political theology and hope, grace and conversion, love and friendship.With contributions from the following: Steven D.

Cone, Frederick E. Crowe, Charles C. Hefling, Christian S. Krokus, Paul Joseph LaChance, Mark T. Miller, Joseph C. Mudd, L. Matthew Petillo, Randall S. Rosenberg, J. Michael Stebbins, Ryoko Tamura, Kevin M. Vander Schel, Michael Vertin, Kathleen M. Williams.