However, in the spirit of giving credit where credit is due, I would give Pope Francis credit for well-imagined and well-argued 2015 eco-encyclical. Granted, it is admittedly only one significant document. Nevertheless, it is the kind of well-imagined and well-argued document that the world needs now.
I understand why Goldberg refers to "political and scientific leaps that are needed" and in principle, I agree with her that political and scientific advances are needed to address "our civilizational predicament" at the present time. But it strikes me that certain other kinds of advances cognitive and affective may be needed as well. For example, I have long thought that the contemporary world might be a better place if more people understood Ong's thought. That's why I wrote my book Walter Ong's Contributions to Cultural Studies: The Phenomenology of the Word and I-Thou Communication, 2nd ed. (New York: Hampton Press, 2015; 1st ed., 2000).
For a bibliography of Ong's 400 or so publications, including bibliographic information about translations and reprintings, see Thomas M. Walsh's "Walter J. Ong, S.J.: A Bibliography 1929-2006" in the book Language, Culture, and Identity: The Legacy of Walter J. Ong, S.J., edited by Sara van den Berg and Thomas M. Walsh (New York: Hampton Press, 2011, pages 185-245).
Now, in Ong's 1986 book Hopkins, the Self, and God (University of Toronto Press), the published version of Ong's 1981 Alexander Lectures at the University of Toronto, he discusses Jesuit training and Ignatian spirituality in connection with discernment of spirits and decision making in Greenblatt's terminology, with self-fashioning.
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