John Krambuhl
@johnkrambuhl.bsky.social
EdD🍎| Metacognition, Institutional Analysis, Spiritual Exercises | Cor ad cor loquitur
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If you want to discuss Balthasar's Theo-Drama 4 with me still, how's a January schedule look? Below, I've split it into its 4 major parts.
Let me know if you're
- interested
- would like some kind of "live" discussion (ie, Zoom)
Let's think apocalyptically about human action together! Or not!
Let me know if you're
- interested
- would like some kind of "live" discussion (ie, Zoom)
Let's think apocalyptically about human action together! Or not!
December 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
If you want to discuss Balthasar's Theo-Drama 4 with me still, how's a January schedule look? Below, I've split it into its 4 major parts.
Let me know if you're
- interested
- would like some kind of "live" discussion (ie, Zoom)
Let's think apocalyptically about human action together! Or not!
Let me know if you're
- interested
- would like some kind of "live" discussion (ie, Zoom)
Let's think apocalyptically about human action together! Or not!
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Fr Doran was right tho: there’s a psychological element that has to get integrated or the intellectual principles won’t get a chance
December 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Fr Doran was right tho: there’s a psychological element that has to get integrated or the intellectual principles won’t get a chance
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My book, The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom, and all @islandpress.bsky.social e-books, is on sale for $6.99 through 12/19.
Ostrom's groundbreaking ideas showed that the "tragedy of the commons" is not inevitable. Communities can sustain their shared resources through collective action. 1/2
Ostrom's groundbreaking ideas showed that the "tragedy of the commons" is not inevitable. Communities can sustain their shared resources through collective action. 1/2
The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom
islandpress.org
December 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
My book, The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom, and all @islandpress.bsky.social e-books, is on sale for $6.99 through 12/19.
Ostrom's groundbreaking ideas showed that the "tragedy of the commons" is not inevitable. Communities can sustain their shared resources through collective action. 1/2
Ostrom's groundbreaking ideas showed that the "tragedy of the commons" is not inevitable. Communities can sustain their shared resources through collective action. 1/2
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For example:
“God takes the stage in the same revelatory mode as any other character that steps out from behind the curtain… Consequently, God’s pure act that is triune life distills into discrete performances on the world stage and so takes on the temporality of worldliness.” (Ibid)
“God takes the stage in the same revelatory mode as any other character that steps out from behind the curtain… Consequently, God’s pure act that is triune life distills into discrete performances on the world stage and so takes on the temporality of worldliness.” (Ibid)
December 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
For example:
“God takes the stage in the same revelatory mode as any other character that steps out from behind the curtain… Consequently, God’s pure act that is triune life distills into discrete performances on the world stage and so takes on the temporality of worldliness.” (Ibid)
“God takes the stage in the same revelatory mode as any other character that steps out from behind the curtain… Consequently, God’s pure act that is triune life distills into discrete performances on the world stage and so takes on the temporality of worldliness.” (Ibid)
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“Rather than articulate a tight…solution, [for von Balthasar] drama presents an alternative framework that holds fate and freedom in the dramatic tension of providential love. The confrontation between fate and freedom happens in God’s action toward and for the world.” (133).
December 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“Rather than articulate a tight…solution, [for von Balthasar] drama presents an alternative framework that holds fate and freedom in the dramatic tension of providential love. The confrontation between fate and freedom happens in God’s action toward and for the world.” (133).
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CFP:
The West Coast Methods Institute (WCMI) Annual Meeting
Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. April 23-25, 2026
THEME:
The Idea of the University Today: Newman, Lonergan, & Higher Education
The West Coast Methods Institute (WCMI) Annual Meeting
Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. April 23-25, 2026
THEME:
The Idea of the University Today: Newman, Lonergan, & Higher Education
December 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
CFP:
The West Coast Methods Institute (WCMI) Annual Meeting
Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. April 23-25, 2026
THEME:
The Idea of the University Today: Newman, Lonergan, & Higher Education
The West Coast Methods Institute (WCMI) Annual Meeting
Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. April 23-25, 2026
THEME:
The Idea of the University Today: Newman, Lonergan, & Higher Education
"Spontaneously, naturally, your ideal of knowledge will govern your attempts at self-appropriation, and unless your ideal is perfectly correct before you start, it will prevent you from arriving. In other words, there is the need of some sort of a jump, a leap.” - Lonergan
“[I]n all one's questions, and all one's efforts to know, one is presupposing some ideal of knowledge, more or less unconsciously perhaps… our concern in *Insight* is a series of exercises in which we move towards the functionally operative tendencies that ground the ideal of knowledge." - Lonergan
December 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"Spontaneously, naturally, your ideal of knowledge will govern your attempts at self-appropriation, and unless your ideal is perfectly correct before you start, it will prevent you from arriving. In other words, there is the need of some sort of a jump, a leap.” - Lonergan
“[I]n all one's questions, and all one's efforts to know, one is presupposing some ideal of knowledge, more or less unconsciously perhaps… our concern in *Insight* is a series of exercises in which we move towards the functionally operative tendencies that ground the ideal of knowledge." - Lonergan
December 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
“[I]n all one's questions, and all one's efforts to know, one is presupposing some ideal of knowledge, more or less unconsciously perhaps… our concern in *Insight* is a series of exercises in which we move towards the functionally operative tendencies that ground the ideal of knowledge." - Lonergan
Lonerganiacs out there: After reading the 1958 essay “The Redemption” what do you recommend as helpful follow up reading to further flesh out the meaning of the redemption? By Lonergan, secondary scholarship, or other thinkers?
December 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Lonerganiacs out there: After reading the 1958 essay “The Redemption” what do you recommend as helpful follow up reading to further flesh out the meaning of the redemption? By Lonergan, secondary scholarship, or other thinkers?
"Mutual self-mediation provides the inexhaustible theme of dramatists and novelists. It is also the imponderable in education that does not show up in charts and statistics, that lies in the immediate interpersonal situation
December 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"Mutual self-mediation provides the inexhaustible theme of dramatists and novelists. It is also the imponderable in education that does not show up in charts and statistics, that lies in the immediate interpersonal situation
I love the way scholarship, art, and existential concern layer in this book toward emergent answers:
“What is *reality*? So also, what is *history*? And what does it mean, if it is possible, to *speak* either of these? And then, what does it mean to *act* in them?” - @catholickungfu.bsky.social
“What is *reality*? So also, what is *history*? And what does it mean, if it is possible, to *speak* either of these? And then, what does it mean to *act* in them?” - @catholickungfu.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I love the way scholarship, art, and existential concern layer in this book toward emergent answers:
“What is *reality*? So also, what is *history*? And what does it mean, if it is possible, to *speak* either of these? And then, what does it mean to *act* in them?” - @catholickungfu.bsky.social
“What is *reality*? So also, what is *history*? And what does it mean, if it is possible, to *speak* either of these? And then, what does it mean to *act* in them?” - @catholickungfu.bsky.social
Did you guys know the BC quarterback’s name is Lonergan? and check out the headline!!
www.si.com/college/bost...
www.si.com/college/bost...
'Mentally, He's So Much Farther Ahead Than You': How QB Dylan Lonergan Can Take Boston College to New Heights
Boston College quarterback Dylan Lonergan never saw the field at his former school, Alabama. He now has the opportunity to take the Eagles to a new level.
www.si.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Did you guys know the BC quarterback’s name is Lonergan? and check out the headline!!
www.si.com/college/bost...
www.si.com/college/bost...
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One of the awesome things about Lonergan’s cognitional theory is the way it can engage, incorporate, and enhance social science. The initial audience for this is likely tiny. But if, for instance, Catholic education adapts the framework I believe its fruits will be abundant in research and practice.
November 14, 2025 at 11:11 PM
One of the awesome things about Lonergan’s cognitional theory is the way it can engage, incorporate, and enhance social science. The initial audience for this is likely tiny. But if, for instance, Catholic education adapts the framework I believe its fruits will be abundant in research and practice.
Responsibly serving the process of another’s relationship with Christ, and thereby their living and memorable discoveries of beauty, goodness, and truth, is exactly the disposition St Ignatius counsels for a giver of the Spiritual Exercises. And the giver must also always be open to being surprised.
Balthasar, Theo-Logic vol. 1.
He wants to maintain a notion of truth. He doesn’t want that notion to mean domination.
He wants to maintain a notion of truth. He doesn’t want that notion to mean domination.
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Responsibly serving the process of another’s relationship with Christ, and thereby their living and memorable discoveries of beauty, goodness, and truth, is exactly the disposition St Ignatius counsels for a giver of the Spiritual Exercises. And the giver must also always be open to being surprised.
If I ever get to spend a whole day with the Pope we’re gonna watch Field of Dreams, play catch, and then go sing some karaoke.
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
If I ever get to spend a whole day with the Pope we’re gonna watch Field of Dreams, play catch, and then go sing some karaoke.
Imo Andy Goldsworthy’s art is a memorable and prophetic expression of this wisdom. Here is a fast taste though the longer form documentaries out there on him are more true to embodying the wisdom.
youtu.be/sngXz55b4bc?...
youtu.be/sngXz55b4bc?...
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Imo Andy Goldsworthy’s art is a memorable and prophetic expression of this wisdom. Here is a fast taste though the longer form documentaries out there on him are more true to embodying the wisdom.
youtu.be/sngXz55b4bc?...
youtu.be/sngXz55b4bc?...
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As the deadline approaches, do please share this around. If you'd prefer a .pdf, DM me a good email and I can provide that too.
CFP: "Belief: Still Today's Issue," The International Institute for Method in Theology's Spring Colloquium. March 6-7, 2026 at Marquette University.
Submissions due Dec. 1
Submissions due Dec. 1
November 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
As the deadline approaches, do please share this around. If you'd prefer a .pdf, DM me a good email and I can provide that too.
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All @islandpress.bsky.social books are HALF PRICE through Sunday, 11/16 including my book, The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom. Ostrom's ideas are about more than just environmental commons. They are about the heart of democracy and self-governance - ideas that are incredibly relevant today.
November 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
All @islandpress.bsky.social books are HALF PRICE through Sunday, 11/16 including my book, The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom. Ostrom's ideas are about more than just environmental commons. They are about the heart of democracy and self-governance - ideas that are incredibly relevant today.
“To what other aspect of ourselves and of our world is the memory of Jesus *dangerous* except to that dimension that has given rise to the longer cycle of decline?” - Fr Doran
“Against such reorganization of the patterns of the subject, there come into play all of the conservative forces that give our lives their continuity and their coherence. The subject's fundamental anxiety, his deepest dread, is the collapse of himself and his world.” - Fr Lonergan
November 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
“To what other aspect of ourselves and of our world is the memory of Jesus *dangerous* except to that dimension that has given rise to the longer cycle of decline?” - Fr Doran
More wisdom from this chapter: “[W]ith regard to the philosophy of education itself, the fundamental problem is the horizon of the educationalist - of the person or group that has the power and the money, that runs the bureaucracy, that makes the decisions - and the horizon of the teacher.
"In the flow of consciousness there is not only the subjective side, what concerns me, but also its correlative, one's world. But what is one's world? It is the organized whole of intelligibly varying objects in which I happen to have any interest, for which I have any concern."
Bernard Lonergan
Bernard Lonergan
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
More wisdom from this chapter: “[W]ith regard to the philosophy of education itself, the fundamental problem is the horizon of the educationalist - of the person or group that has the power and the money, that runs the bureaucracy, that makes the decisions - and the horizon of the teacher.
“[I]ngratitude is the most abominable of sins… for it is a forgetting of the graces, benefits, and blessings received.“ - St. Ignatius Loyola
“If our heart could truly grasps what God is doing for us, how could we sin? We would be too grateful to sin.” - David Fleming, S.J.
“If our heart could truly grasps what God is doing for us, how could we sin? We would be too grateful to sin.” - David Fleming, S.J.
November 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
“[I]ngratitude is the most abominable of sins… for it is a forgetting of the graces, benefits, and blessings received.“ - St. Ignatius Loyola
“If our heart could truly grasps what God is doing for us, how could we sin? We would be too grateful to sin.” - David Fleming, S.J.
“If our heart could truly grasps what God is doing for us, how could we sin? We would be too grateful to sin.” - David Fleming, S.J.
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“How you and I conceptualize our relationships with one another and to the world in which we live is, in my judgment, the foundation on which systems of order are constituted in human societies.“ - Vincent Ostrom
October 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
“How you and I conceptualize our relationships with one another and to the world in which we live is, in my judgment, the foundation on which systems of order are constituted in human societies.“ - Vincent Ostrom
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Tolkien gave maybe the best answer to all of this in The Silmarillion, where the Creation is a song, and where the discordant music Melkor adds to it gets woven into the music and makes it even better, the way a harsh diminished chord can lead satisfyingly to a harmonic resolution.
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Tolkien gave maybe the best answer to all of this in The Silmarillion, where the Creation is a song, and where the discordant music Melkor adds to it gets woven into the music and makes it even better, the way a harsh diminished chord can lead satisfyingly to a harmonic resolution.
Every once and awhile I take a moment to admire this Table of Contents again. It makes me so happy. I’m reading Revelation to get primed!
Theo-Drama 4 really is a lot of fun. I’d be willing to do some kind of Christmas break “course” on it if anyone wants. We can Zoom about it or something.
November 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Every once and awhile I take a moment to admire this Table of Contents again. It makes me so happy. I’m reading Revelation to get primed!