Lonergan and a Proof for God’s Existence

By

Anthony J. Fejfar, B.A., J.D., Esq., Coif

© Copyright 2009 by Anthony J. Fejfar

Bernard Lonergan trashed St. Anselm’s Proof for God’s Existence. St. Anselm

argued that God that which nothing greater than which can be imagined. Anselm argued

that since he had this idea, God then really existed. Lonergan, on the other had argued

that St. Anselm’s proof was faulty because the proof only applied on the level of ideal

logic not the real. Using Thomas Aquainas, I have a new proof for God’s Existence

which meets the requirements of Lonergan’s critique. The Proof is as follows:

1. I experience the Universe as Caused by the First Cause.

2. I understand the Universe as Caused by the First Cause.

3. I Judge that the Universe is Caused by the First Cause.

4. The foregoing operations use human reason.

5. Human reason must have an Origin and an End.

6. Reason or Logos is the Origin and End of human reason.

7. I experience the Universe as reasonable.

8. Reason is both the Origin and End of the Universe as well as the Origin and

end of human reason.

9. God is defined as that Reason of which there is no greater Reason.

10. I experience God as Reason.

11. I understand God as Reason.

12. I judge that God Exists as Reason.