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Malzaire, Gabriel. "Contextual ecclesiology a study of the basic ecclesial communities as a model for Caribbean ecclesiology /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.
Full textFlegg, Columba Graham. "The Catholic Apostolic Church : its history, ecclesiology, liturgy and eschatology." Thesis, n.p, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/.
Full textBrunenghi, Paolo Marrè. "An analysis and evaluation of Severino Dianich's method in ecclesiology." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.
Full textO'Meara, Robert Thomas. "The Catholic spirit in Schleiermacher's ecclesiology, the 1830 Augsburg confession sermons." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0013/MQ36604.pdf.
Full textLee, Paul D. "Pneumatological ecclesiology in the Roman Catholic-Pentecostal dialogue : a Catholic reading of the third quinquennium (1985-1989) /." Romae : Pontificia Studiorum Universitas a S. Thoma Aq. in Urbe, 1994. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/30431.
Full textCrowley, Michael P. S. "The 'other' Latin church : biblical elements in grass-roots Christian communities' ecclesiology." Thesis, Brunel University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325465.
Full textFlynn, Gabriel P. "The Church and unbelief : a study of Yves Congar's 'total ecclesiology'." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312860.
Full textSteidl, Jason. "The Chicano Movement in the US Catholic Church| Grassroots Activism and Dialogical Ecclesiology." Thesis, Fordham University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10846575.
Full textThe Chicano Movement in the Catholic Church initiated dialogue with the Catholic hierarchy through grassroots activism that ranged from the prophetic to the quotidian. Chicano organizations were led by Catholics whose experiences of the Church gave rise to their advocacy for racial justice, equal representation, and culturally appropriate ministries. Visions for the Church originating in the fields and barrios grew into a movement that challenged racism against Mexican Americans at local, diocesan, and national levels. Many Chicanos held that there was an inseparable connection between their cultural and spiritual lives. They asserted their place within the faith community and demanded the pastoral care that Anglo Catholic leadership denied them. Chicano Catholics pressured the Church with strategies they learned from community organizing, the Chicano and Black Liberation Movements, and the Feminist Movement. They did so in a way that made Catholic doctrine, rhetoric, and rituals central to their campaign and set them apart from secular branches of movimiento activism. Chicano Catholics valued the social, economic, and spiritual power held by the Church and were determined to redistribute it among Mexican American communities.
Decades after the peak of the Chicano Movement, its history in the Church is ripe for theological reflection. As a historical study, this work augments secular histories that have neglected the religious, theological, and ecclesiological foundations of the Chicano Movement. Theologically, this dissertation will encourage existing ecclesiologies to take seriously grassroots perspectives of the Church that animate dialogue, including the unconventional, controversial, and often provocative means that the Chicano Movement used to instigate dialogue between the center and peripheries of the US Catholic Church. Lessons from the Chicano Movement are invaluable for a Church within a political, social, and ecclesial milieu that continues to exclude vulnerable communities.
Hurlbutt, Bryan F. "William Tyndale and the Epistle to the Romans his polemic against the soteriology and ecclesiology of the Roman Catholic Church /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.
Full textGallaher, Anastassy Brandon. "Catholic action ecclesiology, the Eucharist and the question of intercommunion in the ecumenism of Sergii Bulgakov /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
Full textPerry, Robert E. "Exclusivism to inclusivism the formulation of Catholic ecclesiology in the documents of Vatican II and the writings of Hans Küng /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.
Full textDeClue, Richard G. "The Petrine ministry within a eucharistic ecclesiology according to John Zizioulas and Joseph Ratzinger." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p029-0723.
Full textLe, Bruyns Clint Charles. "The Papacy as ecumenical challenge : contemporary Anglican and Protestant perspectives on the Petrine Ministry." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1374.
Full textThis dissertation explores how Anglican and Protestant church perspectives on the papacy are increasingly changing, as they identify the need for and value of a universal ministry of unity that may potentially be recognised in the future as a legitimate and propitious structure of ministry, though not without modification.
MacMillan, Elaine Catherine. "Conciliarity in an ecclesiology of communion, the contributions of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission's Final report." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ54047.pdf.
Full textBadini-Confalonieri, Luca. "The relevance of democratic thought and practice to Roman Catholic ecclesiology : an historical, theological, and philosophical case." Thesis, Durham University, 2011. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/882/.
Full textSchmidt, Katherine G. "Virtual Communion: Theology of the Internet and the Catholic Imagination." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton148120259104122.
Full textLape, Antanas. "The ecclesiology of communion in the encyclicals and post-synodal apostolic exhortations of John Paul II." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.
Full textBrodrick, Robert J. "Ecclesiology in a Secular Age: Ecclesiological Implications of the Work of Charles Taylor and Bernard Lonergan." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1294869122.
Full textRichman, Katherine. "Salvation in "Catholic Boston": Father Leonard Feeney and Saint Benedict Center, 1941-1949." Thesis, Boston College, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:103746.
Full textThe story of the transformation of St. Benedict Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, originally a small Catholic student center, into a controversial and socially disruptive religious community is little known today even by most Bostonians. Some sixty-five years ago, however, the Center's public activities under the leadership of its chaplain, Leonard Feeney, S.J., were the focus of intense controversy and publicity, nationally and internationally as well as locally. In the 1940s, there was no clear theological consensus on the possibility of salvation for non-Catholics. Although there seems to have been a notable hesitation on the part of theologians and hierarchy alike in Boston to issue an official pronouncement on the Church's theology of salvation, there was at the same time an unhesitating consensus among them that Fr. Feeney's rigorist interpretation of the Catholic doctrine extra ecclesiam nulla salus ("no salvation outside the Church") was not that of the Church in the modern age. Complex social and cultural factors were at play in the controversy. Ultimately, though, any historian attempting to make sense of the ideas and actions of Fr. Feeney and the members of the Center is confronted with the fact that they took theology seriously, and so also must the historian who hopes to understand them. My thesis in this dissertation is that a uniquely explosive combination of theological developments, social flux, and intersecting personalities led to the eruptions at St. Benedict Center
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2014
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Theology
Muyebe, Stanslaus C. "The canon law framework for arbitration of delictual disputes in the Roman Catholic Church of South Africa : a critical and comparative study." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50469.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: In his analysis of conflict resolution in the church sector, Professor Coertzsen (1998:69) points out that disputes occur also within the churches. While some of the disputes are purely doctrinal, others fall into the category of civil disputes. Professor Rik Torfs in an article (1998:27) observes that the Catholic Church is increasingly becoming a site of civil dispute. These include delict claims. Examples of these are: financial loss as a result of unfair suspension or dismissal from a clerical position; financial loss or loss of reputation resulting from unfair dismissal from a religious congregation; damage to a child or adult arising from being sexually abused by a priest or religious or lay person. When delictual disputes occur, state courts have civil jurisdiction over them. At the same time, the South African Arbitration Act 42 of 1965 allows the parties to a delictual dispute to arbitrate their case as an alternative to civil litigation. This trend is gaining currency in the post-apartheid South Africa. In principle, therefore, church members may refer their delictual disputes for arbitration, instead of entering into civil litigation. Church members, thus, have the choice to have their case arbitrated, and church leaders need to make it clear to members that they also have the right to bring their case to the state courts. This study highlights the need for the churches to have an office of contlict resolution. The office may then advise church members who have a delictual dispute on the options available to them. The office may have a list of lawyers (Christian lawyers) who are willing and able to arbitrate on matters referred to them by other Christians. When the parties decide to have their delictual case arbitrated by lawyers, the determination as to whether a person is legally liable for damage repair requires a legal framework. Unlike the situation in civil litigation, the parties who opt for arbitration have the freedom to decide on the legal framework that the arbitrator should use in determining liability. Catholic Church members who are parties to a dispute may, for example, jointly agree that the arbitrator employ the internal law of the Catholic Church, namely the canon law framework. This study envisages a situation where the parties have jointly agreed to the employment of canon law for the arbitration of their case. When the disputants and the arbitrators engage in discussion and decide on whether to use canon law, they need to ask themselves the following questions: (I) What principles and rules of law has canon law established for the determination of the issue at dispute? (2) How do the standards of justice in canon law differ from those in secular law? What provisions invoked by the arbitrators would result in gross injustice to the claimant? (3) If the provisions of canon law would result in gross injustice to the claimant, the church members who are parties to a dispute may choose to rectify and supersede the limitation inherent in canon law. The question arises: to what provisions in secular law are the arbitrators and Church members able to resort to compensate for the limitations of canon law? (4) How do the standards of justice in canon law differ from Biblical standards? To what biblical messages might the arbitrators and the church members resort to overcome the limitations in canon law? While recognising the value of the fourth question, this study limits itself to the first three. It is hoped that future studies will address the fourth question. The present study attempts to answer the first three questions by means of a critical comparative analysis of the framework that canon law has established for determining the various possible issues at dispute. In the study it is argued that the employment by an arbitrator of some of the provisions in canon law would result in gross injustice. The disputants need to take note of these before they mandate the arbitrator to apply canon law in their case.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In sy analise van kontlikoplossing in die kerk, wys professor Coertzen (1998:69) daarop dat geskilpunte ook binne kerke plaasvind. Terwyl sommige hiervan suiwer leerstellig is, ressorteer ander onder die kategorie van siviele dispute. In 'n artikel verwys Professor Rik Torfs (1998:27) daarna dat die Katolieke Kerk toenemend 'n plek van siviele dispuut word. Hieronder word onregmatige eise ingesluit . Voorbeelde hiervan sluit in: finansiele verlies as gevolg van onregverdige skorsing of afdanking van 'n geestelike pos; finansiele verlies of verlies aan reputasie wat spruit uit onregverdige ontslag van 'n godsdienstige gemeente; skade aan 'n kind of volwassene wat spruit uit seksuele mishandeling deur 'n priester, 'n godsdienstige of leke persoon. Wanneer onregmatige dispute plaasvind, het staatshowe siviele jurisdiksie daaroor. Terselfdertyd laat die Suid-Afrikaanse Arbitrasie Wet 42 van 1965 toe dat partye tot 'n onregmatige dispuut hul saak kan laat arbitreer as 'n alternatief tot siviele litigasie. In Suid- Afrika het hierdie neiging toegeneem in die postapartheid era. Ous, in prinsiep, mag kerklidmate hul onregmatige dispute verwys vir arbitrasie, in plaas daarvan om hul te wend tot siviele litigasie. Ous het kerklidmate die keuse om hul sake te laat arbitreer, en kerk leiers moet dit aan lidmate duidelik stel dat hulle ook die reg het om hul sake na die staaathowe te neern. Hierdie studie bring die noodsaaklikheid na yore die vir kerke om 'n kantoor te he vir kontlikbeslegting. Die kantoor mag dan kerklidmate wat 'n onregmatige dispuut het adviseer aangaande die alternatiewe wat vir hulle beskikbaar is. Die kantoor mag 'n lys hou van Christel ike prokureurs wat gewillig en bevoeg is om te arbitreer 001' sake wat deur ander Christene na hulle verwys word. Wanneer die partye besluit om hul onregmatige saak deur prokureurs te laat arbitreer, het die vasstelling of 'n persoon wetlik aanspreeklik is vir reparasie van skade 'n wetlike raamwerk. Anders as in die geval van siviele litigasie, het die partye wat besluit op arbitrasie die keuse om te besluit watter wetlike raamwerk die arbiter rnoet gebruik om aanspreeklikheid vas te stel. Lidmate van die Katolieke Kerk, wat partye tot 'n dispuut is, mag, by voorbeeld, gesamentlik besluit dat die arbiter die interne reg van die Katolieke Kerk gebruik, naamlik die kanonieke regsraamwerk. Hierdie studie beoog 'n situasie waar die partye gesamentlik besluit het om die kanonieke reg vir die arbitrasie van hul saak te gebruik. Wanneer die disputante en die arbiters in gesprek tree en besluit of die kanonieke reg gebruik sal word, moet hulle hulself die volgende vrae afvra: (I) Watter prinsiepe en reels van die reg het die kanonieke reg ingestel om die saak van dispuut wat ter sprake is, te bepaal? (2) Hoe verskil die standaarde van die reg in kanonieke reg van die in burgeri ike reg? Watter voorsienings ingestel deur die arbiters sou uitvloei in erge onreg aan die eiser? (3) As die voorsienings van die kanonieke reg sou lei tot erge onreg aan die eiser, mag die kerklidmate, wat partye tot die dispuut is, kies om in die kanonieke reg die beperkings reg te stel en te vervang. Die vraag ontstaan: na watter voorsienings in die kerklike reg kan die arbiters en kerklidmate verwys om te vergoed vir die beperkinge van die kanonieke reg? (4) Hoe verskil die standaarde van die reg in kanonieke reg van die bybelse standaarde? Na watter bybelse boodskappe mag die arbiters en die kerklidmate verwys om die beperkinge in die kanonieke reg te oorkom? Terwyl die waarde van die vierde vraag erken word, word hierdie studie beperk tot die eerste drie. Daar word gehoop dat toekomstige studies die vierde vraag sal aanspreek. Die huidige studie poog om die eerste drie vrae te beantwoord deur middel van 'n krities-vergelykende analise van die raamwerk wat die kanonieke reg ingestel het 0111 verskeie rnoontlike sake van dispuut vas te stel. In hierdie studie word aangevoer dat die indiensneming deur 'n arbiter van sommige van die voorsienings van kanonieke reg sou kon lei tot erge onreg. Die disputante moet kennis neem hiervan voordat hulle die arbiter die mandaat gee om die kanonieke reg in hul geval toe te pas.
Steele, Mareque Yvonne. "The implications of Trinitarian ecclesiology in Vatican II for lay-ordained relationships, with specific reference to the French Catholic charismatic renewal." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621951.
Full textHahn, O. S. B. Michael L. "From Communion Toward Synodality: The Ecclesial Vision of Pope Francis and Its Implications for Catholic Higher Education in the United States." Thesis, Boston College, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108477.
Full textAt the intersection of theology and education, this dissertation investigates the distinctive character of the participation of Catholic colleges and universities in the mission of the Catholic Church. In 1967, less than two years after the final session of the Second Vatican Council, Catholic educators assembled in Land O’Lakes, Wisconsin to discuss the nature and role of Catholic universities in the modern era. While representing a necessary and natural stage of development for Catholic higher education, the Land O’Lakes statement—and, particularly its assertion of “true autonomy”—lacked sufficient theological foundation. In response to perceived abuses stemming from an undue emphasis on institutional autonomy, Pope John Paul II published the apostolic constitution on Catholic universities, Ex corde Ecclesiae (1990). This document proposed an ecclesiology of communion as a more adequate theological foundation. Although communion ecclesiology represented a real advance on several fronts, ultimately, the inability of this theological foundation to resolve challenging issues regarding the distinctive mission of Catholic institutions became evident. Consequently, a more adequate ecclesiological foundation is required. This dissertation proposes that ecclesial synodality, as it has emerged in the papacy of Francis, provides a more constructive ecclesiological foundation for considering the relationship between Catholic higher education and the church. I propose that Catholic colleges and universities can serve as institutions to foster the practice of synodality in the church
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2019
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry
Peterson, Brian R. E. "Ancient Voices: The Church Fathers in Ecumenical Conversations." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1335375539.
Full textGrass, Timothy George. "The Church's ruin and restoration : the development of ecclesiology in the Plymouth Brethren and the Catholic Apostolic Church c.1825-c.1866." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1997. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-churchs-ruin-and-restoration--the-development-of-ecclesiology-in-the-plymouth-brethren-and-the-catholic-apostolic-church-c-1825c1866(0f55ad2b-a3a6-4edb-bb8f-b0a9430fe986).html.
Full textSmall, Andrew. "The contribution to ecclesiology of the teaching on the role of the religious priest in the life of the Church, in the documents of the Holy See from Mutuae relationes to Vita consecrata." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.
Full textHill, Rowena Jane. "A liturgical people, the role of common worship in the ecclesiology of Michael Ramsey as seen in The gospel and the Catholic Church." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq25200.pdf.
Full textRaby, Elyse J. "Toward an Intercorporeal Body of Christ: A Study in Ecclesial Body Images." Thesis, Boston College, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:109196.
Full textThis dissertation analyzes the various images of the body in the metaphor of the church as a body, or the body of Christ, in modern Catholic ecclesiology in order to reimagine the corporeal metaphor for postconciliar ecclesiology. The metaphor of the church as a body has a vertical dimension expressing the relationship between Christ and the church and a horizontal dimension expressing the relationships among Christians. In its vertical dimension, “body” has been understood as ‘self’ and/or as ‘spouse.’ In its horizontal dimension, the body has been understood as a living organism and/or as an ordered society. In the magisterial tradition especially, the body is described as a well-bounded and hierarchically ordered organism, in which members are united under a head and share in one common life, and which manifests the person to the world. The metaphor of the church as a body, then, has most often been used to express and justify papal authority and primacy and the exclusion of non-Catholics from the body of Christ, and to posit the Catholic Church as the ongoing manifestation of Christ’s presence and authority. This dissertation utilizes the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to challenge these notions of the body, showing instead that the body is ‘intercorporeal’—interwoven with other bodies, united by meaningful action, and having flexible boundaries. The body is the necessary foundation of existence in the world, but can also inhibit personal presence as well. In light of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, this dissertation argues for a vision of the church as an intercorporeal body—a missionary, dialogical, and decentralized body that is capable of mediating, but also inhibiting, the presence of Christ to the world
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2021
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Theology
Glenane, Amy S. "One Mission, Many Ministries." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2015. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/179.
Full textWillis, Sean. "In what sense is Mary a type of the Church? : using two models to illuminate some developments in twentieth century Roman Catholic Mario-ecclesiology." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/14431.
Full textCoulter, Paul B. "Church and mission in four aspects : church planting within a missionary ecclesiology for the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church in contemporary Northern Ireland." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2016. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=231074.
Full textStringer, Bridie. "What is the ecclesial understanding of the role of the Permanent Diaconate in the contemporary Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, with specific reference to Southwark Province?" Thesis, St Mary's University, Twickenham, 2010. http://research.stmarys.ac.uk/259/.
Full textBrodrick, Robert J. "Charismatic and Pastoral Power: A Foucauldian Analysis of the CDF Investigation of Leonardo Boff." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107996.
Full textThe following dissertation argues that the relations of power operative in the investigation and silencing of Fr. Leonardo Boff, O.F.M. by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) can be adequately understood through the application of a model derived from the works of Michel Foucault. Drawing on the affirmation of the Second Vatican Council that the Catholic Church receives both charismatic and hierarchical gifts, the basis of this model is two elementary forms of power: charismatic power and pastoral power. The category of pastoral power includes, but goes beyond, the traditional ecclesiological concepts of office, law, hierarchy, or institution and includes all forms of ministries and modes of service set over the good of each and all members of the faithful. In order to accomplish this broader task, Foucault’s distinction between sovereignty, discipline, and governmentality are employed as three strategic logics of the Christian pastorate. Charismatic power is then understood as the free gifts of the Holy Spirit that uplift and perfect the talents of each member of the faithful in order to participate in the loving service of the church’s mission in dialogical relation to each respective strategy of pastoral power. In order to defend the claim that each of these strategic relations of power can be observed in the Boff case, this dissertation offers a historical review of the theological concepts entailed therein, genealogical analyses of the discursive and non-discursive practices carried out by both Boff and the CDF, and an explication of Foucault’s thought on power relations. This dissertation concludes with an interpretation of the Boff case that shows how the fundamental arguments of both parties are theologically sound, although with respect to different strategic logics. The conclusion also offers a preliminary outline for a generalized theology of power in the Catholic Church based on the lessons learned from this particular case study
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2018
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Theology
Baccuet, Christian. "Le ministère, nœud gordien de l'œcuménisme ? : la question des ministères dans les dialogues théologiques internationaux entre les Églises luthériennes et réformées et l'Église catholique." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017STRAK006.
Full textEcumenical relations tend to crystallize around the question of ministry, a subject on which current dialogue seems to be blocked. For fifty years, the Lutheran and Reformed Churches have been engaged in dialogue at the international level with the Roman Catholic Church on this question. Numerous reports have been produced. This study analyzes the strong convergences, the legitimate differences and the divergences which appear in these dialogues on the apostolicity of the Church, the importance of the common priesthood of the baptized, the necessity of a special ministry conferred by ordination for the service of preaching and administration of the sacraments and the essential importance for the Church of a ministry of episkopè to protect the integrity of the faith and preserve the unity of the church. The study demonstrates that ministry is not the ultimate question, but one that reveals fundamental ecclesiological issues which appear in the connection between eucharistic and ecclesial communion, the structuring of the Church on a universal level and its relationship with local Churches, the presence in fullness of the Church of Jesus Christ in one or several particular Churches. The study offers a reflexion which prepares the ground for moving forward to a mutual recognition of ministries which, although not currently on the agenda, nevertheless still remains possible
Racu, Alexandru. "Modernity and the Theologico-Political Problem in the Thought of Joseph de Maistre and Fyodor Dostoyevsky: A Comprehensive Comparison." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/24358.
Full textChua, Celia. "Mary, the Communion of Saints and the Chinese Veneration of Ancestors." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1267545196.
Full textZeitzmann, Robert Mark. "The Trinitarian Form of the Church: Church as Christ’s Sacrament and the Spirit’s Liturgy of Communion." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1626715544014305.
Full textBlaj, Daniel. "Le principe ecclésiologique de l'oecuménisme chez Yves Congar : élaboration, réception et perspectives ecclésiales." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012STRAK005.
Full textThe assertion of the Church as “One” present throughout history is part of the Roman Catholic tradition. After the appearance of the ecumenical movement, Yves Congar (1904-1995) introduces the ecclesiological principle of ecumenism in catholic theology. The idea is to think of the Christian life of the other baptized based on their Communion. To emphasize this hermeneutics’ principle, this thesis studies its theological impact on the congarian work (1931-1954) and ponders over its reception within the decree on ecumenism Unitatis Redintegratio (1964), within the encyclical Ut Unum Sint (1995) as well as in recent documents. It will also lead on to suggesting its recording in one theology of the Church structured by the institutionalization of grace in an eschatological perspective
Hunsinger, Tiffany Alice. "The Silos of American Catholicism and Their Connections to Cultural and National Identities: An Examination of Contemporary Catholicism with Fr. James Martin, SJ and R.R. Reno." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1596812097965317.
Full textDeLong, Tyler Benjamin. "Eucharistic Unity, Fragmented Body: Christian Social Practice and the Market Economy." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1427404705.
Full textSundkvist, Annica. "När får jag kyssa din hand? : Några röster om att vara Kaldeisk-katolsk och Syrisk-ortodox utlandskyrka i Södertälje 2019." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-399922.
Full textI Södertälje finns ett stort antal kyrkliga samfund representerade, flertalet med rötter i Mellanöstern. Det kyrkliga landskapet medför att det för den kyrkobesökare som rör sig i flera olika kyrkorum, är lätt att upptäcka många likheter mellan de olika kyrkliga samfunden, men också flera skillnader. En påtaglig skillnad är synen på prästämbetet. I Svenska kyrkan kan kvinnor vara präster, medan detta inte är möjligt i Kaldeisk-katolska kyrkan eller i Syrisk-ortodoxa kyrkan. Den här uppsatsen handlar om hur några vanliga gudstjänstdeltagare, medlemmar i Kaldeisk-katolska kyrkan eller Syrisk-ortodoxa kyrkan, ser på de egna kyrkotraditionerna och -praktikerna i ljuset av att vara minoritetskyrkor i ett sekulärt samhälle där Svenska kyrkan är majoritetskyrka. Uppsatsen har ett teologiskt såväl som ett samhällsorienterat perspektiv. Anledningen till det är att dessa två perspektiv har en ömsesidig påverkan på varandra beträffande informanternas - och kyrkornas - identitetsskapande. En viktig ansats i uppsatsen är vilken syn på relationen prästämbete och kön informanterna ger uttryck för. Uppsatsen visar att informanternas uppfattning om vem som kan vigas till präst är mer beroende av personlig lämplighet än av kön, oaktat att de kyrkotraditioner de tillhör säger något annat. Trots att kvinnor inte vigs till präster i någon av de kyrkor som uppsatsen belyser, menar informanterna att det på sikt inte alls skulle vara en omöjlighet. Det är istället en i raden av anpassningar som de menar att deras kyrkor bör göra, för att fortsätta att leva och verka i Södertälje och för att tillväxten av medlemmar ska vara god. Dock visar det sig att frågan om prästämbete och kön inte är okomplicerad. Det beror dels på traditioner från hemländerna, men också på att mannens och kvinnans kropp betraktas på olika sätt i ortodox teologi, inte minst jämfört med Svenska kyrkans teologi. I uppsatsen ger informanterna också uttryck för frågor som har väckts genom mötet mellan deras respektive hemländer och Sverige. Främst handlar detta om vad som kan hända när kyrkliga traditioner möter sekulära värderingar. Detta påverkar deras syn på såväl kultur och nationalitet som vad det innebär att vara individ i en grupp, som starkt präglas av kyrkliga traditioner, i ett samhälle som är så individcentrerat som Sverige.
Malonga, Diawara-Doré Charlemagne Didace. "Canonicité de la Conférence des évêques." Thesis, Paris 11, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA111006.
Full textAs it is suggested within the title, the present thesis focuses on the canonicity of the Conference of bishops. It aims to reflect the degree ofauthority of this new specifically Latin Institution. The bishops Conference has become a permanent body, while the Synod of bishops whichwas born in 1965, under Pope Paul VI did not receive this feature. Is the Conference of bishops an expression of episcopal collegiality? TheSecond Vatican Council (1962-1965) was admitted as a component of this collegiality. Vatican II was consecrated and institutionalized(Constitution Lumen Gentium and Decree Christus Dominus), but failed to raise any issue relating to its authority and jurisdiction. The 1969Synod of bishops, whose theme was announced, more precisely lived collegiality, also addressed the question of episcopal conferences. Atthe Synod Assembly, the debate has mainly concerned the means to implement in order to achieve a real and effective cooperation betweenRome and the bishops' conferences, and to ensure greater autonomy to these conferences, without impeding the freedom of the Pope, orundermining the authority of the diocesan bishop. There ensued a greater commitment to the principles which govern, on the one hand, therelationship between the Episcopal Conferences and the Apostolic See, and on the other hand, the links between the different episcopalConferences.But that debate has still not been completely invalidated, especially as it refers to the teaching authority of the Conference of bishops. Thejuridical qualification, in 1983, through the efforts of the latin codification seems to have been insufficient.The Synod of Bishops, in 1985, demonstrates this persistent discomfort. It has formally requested a reassessment of the institution of theConference of bishops: « Since the Episcopal Conferences are particularly useful, even necessary in the current pastoral work of theChurch, we want to study their theological " status " so that in particular the issue of their doctrinal authority would be more clearly anddeeply explained, taking into account what is written in the conciliar Decree Christus Dominus, item N° 38 and in the Code of Canon Law,can. 447 and 753 ». This situation derived to two institutional efforts: an advisory one (The Instrumentum laboris of 1987 of theCongregation for bishops), then another one, a decision (the Motu proprio Apostolos suos 1998). In this last theological standard and juridicalrequalification, Pope John Paul II reaffirms, more decisively, the specificity of the Conference of bishops. This extensive file may seem to beredundant and haunting. Researchers can notice that the problem of authority of the Conference of bishops remains difficult to determine. Infact, are the main parameters of the ecclesial structure not deeply questioned ?
Jesson, Nicholas Ayres. "Towards an ecumenical ecclesiology : the Roman Catholic Church in dialogue." 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/18860.
Full textImperatori-Lee, Natalia M. "The use of Marian imagery in Catholic ecclesiology since Vatican II." 2007. http://etd.nd.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-07122007-103119/.
Full textBronkhurst, Willem J. "A critical comparison of the Ecclesiologies of the catechism of the Catholic Church and the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/2873.
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Basera, Michael. "The mission of the church as family: implementing the ecclesiology of the African Synod (1994) in the Catholic Diocese of Masvingo." Thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27721.
Full textThe purpose of this thesis is to examine the mission of the ‘Church as family’ and to explore its implications in terms of levels of inclusion and participation of church members in the Catholic Diocese of Masvingo. The background of the study is the 1994 African Synod that suggests the ecclesiology of the mission of the ‘Church as family.’ The study helps the Catholic Diocese of Masvingo to evaluate the implementation of the ideal of the mission of the ‘Church as family’ and draw implications for nuclear, single parent, child-headed, reconstituted and extended families within the church. The study explores Shorter’s culture model to examine how cultural practices, symbols, values and belief systems can be used as an analytic framework for the human dimension of the church. A qualitative research methodology that involves 36 participants in semi-structured interviews, three focus group discussions in urban, semi-urban and rural parishes and participant observation was used to collect data from parishioners, priests and religious of the Catholic Diocese of Masvingo. The study reveals that each family type contributes to Evangelisation as proclamation of the Good News and inculturation differently thereby enriching the ideal of the mission of the ‘Church as family.’ Furthermore, the study shows that guilds, associations and commissions help to strengthen families through spiritual, psychological, social and economic support. Findings also indicate that the Trinity is the theological foundation of the family and it finds acceptance in African communal setup. Family types in Masvingo Diocese are analysed using the notion of the Trinity to show that dignity, equality and respect among family types can be used to strengthen the ideal of the mission of the ‘Church as family.’ At pastoral level, economic, social and cultural obstacles to family ministry stand as a challenge to the full implementation and realisation of the ideal of the mission of the ‘Church as family’. In the light of the research, recommendations for mission strategies were suggested at different levels that involve Diocesan administration, priests, religious, catechists and parish leaders. Recommendations for further researches were also suggested for areas that seem to be important yet outside the scope of this study. The theological, pastoral, and cultural issues raised in this study combine to help the Catholic Diocese of Masvingo to become an authentic expression of the mission of the ‘Church as family’ of God.
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Mendy, Gabriel. "Augustine's analogy between the Spirit in the Church and the soul in the body and it's implications for communion ecclesiology." 2009. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/etd,116694.
Full textHavrlant, Jaroslav. "Ekleziologie Tomáše Bavorovského (1562)." Doctoral thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-328160.
Full textZeman, Jiří. "Církev, jak ji žil a myslel Oto Mádr." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-351787.
Full textNosek, Lukáš. "Eklesiologie Antonína Salajky (1901-1975)." Doctoral thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-299610.
Full textJanovský, Marek. "Význam a vliv konceptů dospělého člověka a nenáboženské interpretace Dietricha Bonhoeffera na českou poválečnou křesťanskou teologii, eklesiologii a křesťanské zvěstování." Master's thesis, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-447440.
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