(4 of 4)
Some of his critics object that such earnest expressions of Christian love are all too rare in Lonergan's work—that he is too rational, that the dimensions of feeling are absent. Lonergan replies simply that love is already at the heart of the matter. "Being-in-love is a fact. It's a first principle. Being-in-love doesn't need any justification, just as you don't explain God, God is the ultimate explanation. Love is something that proves itself."
Lonergan does not pretend to comprehend everything, but only to offer a dynamic viewpoint in which everything may be seen to be part of an interrelated whole. It is at heart a simple method but, like Jesus' great commandment of love, it is not easy. Critics who say that it offers too many answers do not grasp the essential Lonergan. What he may offer, for many people, is too many challenges. Despite the promise of an ultimate horizon, there is in that offer no solid assurance of an answer that can be grasped in mortal life. There is only the tantalizing guarantee of a continuing question.