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Shim, Kioh. "John Wesley's Eucharist and the online Eucharist". Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2013. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4398/.
Pełny tekst źródłaPaterson, Torquil John Macleod. "The Eucharist and history". Thesis, Rhodes University, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018262.
Pełny tekst źródłaTurnbloom, David. "Celebrating the Eucharist as Subjects of Charity: Retrieving a Thomistic Grammar of the Eucharist". Thesis, Boston College, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104540.
Pełny tekst źródłaThis dissertation argues that the eucharistic theology found in Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae is not a Christocentric, static, hierarchical economy of grace production. Rather, it is a deeply Trinitarian, dynamic, communal drama of graced participation. Based on Aquinas's insistence that grace is a participation in the Divine Nature that is signified by the sacraments, I turn to the Secunda Pars in order to explicate the relationship between grace and human action that is presupposed in the sacramentology of the Tertia Pars. Insofar as the res tantum of the Eucharist is the unity of the mystical body of Christ, special attention is given to the relationship between grace, theological virtue, and moral virtue. Through close examination of the process through which charity is said to increase in the subject, the unity of the mystical body is seen, not as a mystical state, but as a graced action that is simultaneously God's action (insofar as grace formally moves us through charity) and the Church's action (insofar as the moral virtues dispose us to receive the presence of God as the extrinsic principle of our actions). The unity of the mystical body of Christ is, then, rightly called the grace of the Eucharist because the spiritual life affected by the Eucharist is the active presence of charity in the Church. The result of the Eucharist is the Church's participation in the Divine Nature. This project aims at providing a grammar that allows for fruitful dialogue in modern sacramental theology. Within Catholic Eucharistic theology, the scholastic language of metaphysics is regularly given place of privilege to such an extent as to view other grammars of the Eucharist with suspicion. This dissertation provides a Thomistic grammar of the Eucharist that largely avoids the traditional scholastic grammars. It is the hope that such retrieval is a catalyst for constructive dialogue between modern grammars (of all denominations) and traditional scholastic grammars
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2015
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Theology
Massaro, Thomas 1961. "The Eucharist and Social Justice:". The Church in the 21st Century Center at Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:103710.
Pełny tekst źródłaColloton, Paul H. "Language for leadership at the Eucharist leadership at the Eucharist in the liturgy at Rome /". Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.
Pełny tekst źródłaDisco, Bernard William. "God's Gracious and Scandalous Gift of Desire: The Liturgy of the Eucharist in Louis-Marie Chauvet's 'Symbolic Exchange' with Jean-Luc Marion's Phenomenology of Givenness and René Girard's Mimetic Theory". Thesis, Boston College, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108628.
Pełny tekst źródłaTraditionally, Church teaching has examined the Eucharist in metaphysical terms (‘what is it?’: substance, presence, and causality) and its liturgical celebration as a sacrifice (a re-presentation of Christ’s self-sacrifice on the cross). Prompted by Vatican II’s exhortation to the faithful for ‘full, conscious, active participation’ in the liturgy (cf. Sacrosanctum Concilium 14, 27, 30), this dissertation re-interprets the Eucharistic liturgy and participants’ role in it through the root metaphor of gift: a gift of desire, which impacts participants’ desires, relationships, and selfhood. It proposes a ‘relational approach’ to the Eucharist by asking: What is going on ‘relationally’ in the Eucharistic celebration? How might the Eucharist impact our desire, relations, identity? How does or ought the liturgy of the Eucharist concern relationships between the participants and others? What specifically does the Church celebrate in its liturgy of the Eucharist? Louis-Marie Chauvet’s ‘symbolic exchange’ model of the Eucharistic Prayer, when put in conversation with both Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenology of gift and René Girard’s mimetic theory, yields an understanding of the Eucharist as God’s gracious and scandalous gift of divine desire. The gift is gracious as an embodied expression of divine love, and also scandalous as it challenges recipients’ autonomy with a radical call to charity demanding an existential response. This dissertation upholds Christ’s self-gift as the ultimate decision to love in a perfect reversal of sacrificial violence, which Christians are called to imitate. It emphasizes the liturgy’s structure as a dynamic event of being encountered by God’s gift of himself and reception of this gift through particular responses. This understanding aims to re-appropriate traditional Catholic teaching on the Eucharist in more contemporary terms. It aims to explain how ‘fully conscious and active participation’ in the sacred mysteries occurs, that liturgy and life may be more richly interrelated
Thesis (STD) — Boston College, 2019
Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry
Discipline: Sacred Theology
Economidis, Michael. "The Eucharist in John of Damascus". Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1170.
Pełny tekst źródłaHarrington, Daniel J. "The Eucharist in the Early Church:". The Church in the 21st Century Center at Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:103712.
Pełny tekst źródłaGauthier, Patricia. "The Eucharist as Symbol and Reality". Thesis, Regent University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10932876.
Pełny tekst źródłaThis work examines the theological interpretation that the nature of the Eucharist is the actual body and blood of Christ ingested by the participants at the Lord’s Table. It proposes that the keys to unlocking the mystery of the Eucharist are reexaminations of the Old Testament typology of the “Bread of the Presence,” and the New Testament patristic understanding of symbol and reality that point to the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. These comprehensions serve renewal hermeneutics by advancing Eucharistic theology toward three goals: they provide insights that inform and facilitate our experience of Christ’s Real Presence in the assembly of the Lord’s Table, they call contemporary culture to satisfy their deep longing to experience the Presence of the Living God through Holy Communion, and they recall the hope that Jesus’ prayer in John 17: 20–23 for unity of his one body may be realized.
McPartlan, Paul Gerard. "The Eucharist makes the church : the Eucharistic ecclesiologies of Henri de Lubac and John Zizioulas compared". Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304880.
Pełny tekst źródłaGittoes, Julie Anne. "Anamnesis and the Eucharist : contemporary Anglican approaches". Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.616163.
Pełny tekst źródłaSamra, James G. "The eucharist a mosaic of theological images /". Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.
Pełny tekst źródłaGittoes, Julie. "Anamnesis and the eucharist : contemporary anglican approaches /". Aldershot : Ashgate, 2008. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb412944377.
Pełny tekst źródłaBurnett-Chetwynd, Gemma Claire. "Feminist theology and Anglican liturgy : embodiment and Eucharist". Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648155.
Pełny tekst źródłaO'Malley, Seán P. (Seán Patrick) 1944. "The Eucharist: At the Center of Catholic Life". The Church in the 21st Century Center at Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:103713.
Pełny tekst źródłaRoyer, Lorraine Bernadine. "Eucharist celebrating and living the justice of God /". Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
Pełny tekst źródłaLewis, Eric P. "Descartes and tradition : the miracle of the Eucharist /". Thesis, This resource online, 1995. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06082009-171023/.
Pełny tekst źródłaCarpenter, Van Eldon. "Wyclif's realism and his view of the eucharist". Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.
Pełny tekst źródłaGroome, Thomas H. "How is the Eucharist the Center of Catholic Life?:". The Church in the 21st Century Center at Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:103705.
Pełny tekst źródłaRalph, Margaret Nutting. "Probing the Mystery of the Eucharist: New Testament Models". The Church in the 21st Century Center at Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:103714.
Pełny tekst źródłaStohlmann, David Henry. "The eucharist center of the church's worship and life /". Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
Pełny tekst źródłaEng, Jerry Seow-Hng. "The contextualization of the eucharist in the Malaysian church". Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.
Pełny tekst źródłaO'Brien, Scott T. ""O marvelous exchange" a mystagogical catechesis of the Eucharist /". Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.
Pełny tekst źródłaGeorge, Kuruvilla. "From people's theatre to people's Eucharist : resources from popular theatre for Eucharistic reform in the Church of South India, Kerala State". Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19786.
Pełny tekst źródłaBurton, Ben. "Poetics of the Eucharist from Robert Southwell to John Milton". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.519752.
Pełny tekst źródłaSpahn, Stephen F. "Mass intentions: Memorials, money and the meaning of the Eucharist". Thesis, Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:105012.
Pełny tekst źródłaMcHardy, David. "Eucharist, ministry and authority in the ecclesiology of John Zizioulas". Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30481.
Pełny tekst źródłaCavanaugh, William T. "Torture and eucharist : theology, politics, and the Body of Christ /". Oxford (U.K.) : Blackwell, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb390106772.
Pełny tekst źródłaFahrig, Stephen David. "The Context of the Text: Reading Hebrews as a Eucharistic Homily". Thesis, Boston College, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107586.
Pełny tekst źródłaThe majority of exegetes agree that the so-called “Letter” to the Hebrews is actually a homily, meant to be read aloud to a Christian community gathered for worship. In The Context of the Text: Reading Hebrews as a Eucharistic Homily, I argue that the specific venue for the public reading of Hebrews was a celebration of the Eucharist. It is my contention that the author presumed and exploited this Eucharistic setting in order to bolster his claims about the superiority of Christ and his sacrifice to the sacrifices of the “first covenant”, as well as to entreat his readers to remain faithful to Christian Eucharistic worship. This dissertation begins in Chapter 1 by considering the “state of the question,” examining the positions of scholars who take – respectively – negative, agnostic and positive positions regarding Eucharistic references in Hebrews. Chapter 2 situates the question of Hebrews and the Eucharist within the broader milieu of the liturgical provenance of New Testament writings. Chapter 3 considers the issues of Hebrews’ authorship, date of composition, audience, rhetorical strategy, and literary structure as they pertain to my argument that the text was written for proclamation at the Eucharist. Chapter 4 offers an extensive study of several passages from Hebrews which appear to allude to the Eucharist without mentioning the sacrament explicitly (Hebrews 6:4; 9:20; 10:19-25; 12:22-24; 13:10; and 13:15), setting forth the claim that the allusive nature of these references is explained by the Eucharistic milieu for which the homily was written. In particular, I argue that a Eucharistic understanding of Hebrews 13:10 (“We have an altar from which those who officiate in the tent have no right to eat”) is the linchpin for understanding other Eucharistic references in Hebrews and that this verse serves as a major reinforcement of the author’s earlier claims regarding the supreme efficacy of Christ’s redemptive work. I hold that the author’s mention of an “altar” in 13:10 is meant to be understood as a reference to the Eucharistic table and that, taken as such, this statement parallels the claim in 8:1 (“We have such a high priest”) in order to demonstrate that Christians have both a superior priest (Christ) and a superior cultic act (the Eucharist). Finally, Chapter 5 considers interpretive traditions (particularly patristic and Eastern) which bolster the case for a Eucharistic interpretation of Hebrews
Thesis (STD) — Boston College, 2014
Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry
Discipline: Sacred Theology
Van, der Water Desmond. "Towards a eucharistic theology and practice for the South African context : a re-appraisal of Reformed eucharistic theology from the perspective of the Eucharist in Catholic liberation theology". Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15883.
Pełny tekst źródłaThe theology and practice of the eucharist emerged as one of the major points of contention in the 16th Century Reformation. While the Reformers themselves differed in their respective eucharistic theologies, they were nevertheless unanimous in rejecting what they perceived as heresy and abuse in the theology and practice within the Roman Catholic Church. Part One of this dissertation explores the Reformed teaching on the eucharist by surveying the eucharistic theologies of the Reformers, Huldrych Zwingli and John Calvin, and more recent theologians, Peter Forsyth and Karl Barth. The challenge of the Reformation, however timeous and valid, did not go far enough. While the Reformers went to great lengths to expose theological heresy and to condemn abuses, they gave scant attention to the contextual implications of their theology. For instance, the Reformation focussed on such theological issues as the "essence" or "substance" of Christ's presence in the eucharist, without giving attention to its missiological implications within the contextual struggles for human liberation from socio-political and economic structures of domination, oppression and exploitation. Roman Catholic theology of liberation, emerging from Latin America in the latter part of the 20th Century, presents a compelling challenge to both traditional Catholic teaching and Reformed theology and practice. While not departing from the basic tenets of Catholic teaching, liberation theology adopts a radically critical stance, whereby any orthodox theology and practice is judged in terms of its relevance to the existential situations of human oppression, poverty and suffering. Part Two of this dissertation reflects on the response of liberation theologians to a new crisis for the sacraments within the Roman Catholic Church. This is done by surveying the eucharistic theologies of Juan Luis Segundo, Rafael Avila (from Latin America) and Tissa Balasuriya (from Asia). The Churches of the Reformed tradition have not as yet adequately responded to the challenges within a country characterised by racism, state oppression, social injustices and economic exploitation. A Reformed eucharistic theology and practice should be formulated for the South African context, which takes seriously the criticisms of Catholic liberation theology, while simultaneously exploring the contextual implications of its own Reformed tradition. It is not necessary for a Reformed understanding of the eucharist to break with tradition, anymore than Catholic liberation theology does. What is required is that the tradition be retrieved in relation to the struggle for liberation within our historical context. Part Three sets out the proposal for a eucharistic theology and practice for the South African context, in terms of two major themes, namely those of protest and celebration. These themes are fundamental to both the biblical framework and the contextual application of the eucharist, are consonant with the intention of Reformed eucharistic theology. Central to the proposal will be the formulation of a theology and practice of the community-of-faith. It will become evident as to what is meant by community-of-faith as we explore the above themes.
Goodwin, Colin Robert, i res cand@acu edu au. "Praesentia Substantialis: an examination of the Thomistic metaphysics of the Eucharistic presence". Australian Catholic University. School of Philosophy, 2006. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp138.17052007.
Pełny tekst źródłaNorsworthy, C. Gray. "Coming together, multicongregational and multicultural unity and diversity through the eucharist". Chicago, Ill : McCormick Theological Seminary, 1997. http://www.tren.com.
Pełny tekst źródłaHancock, Brannon. "The scandal of sacramentality : the Eucharist in literary and theological perspectives". Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2568/.
Pełny tekst źródłaScaffidi, Christopher Robert. "Understanding the Eucharist of Ignatius of Antioch through the passover memorial". Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.
Pełny tekst źródłaAsomugha, Catherine. "Constructing an Igbo theology of the Eucharist toward a covenanted kinship /". Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.
Pełny tekst źródłaFlummerfelt, Robert John Beecher. "Baptism, chrismation, and Eucharist for infants questions of rights and rites /". Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.
Pełny tekst źródłaGalgalo, Joseph Denge. "Eucharistic sacrifice : a theological study of the sacrificial interpretation of the early Eucharist and its role in the economy of salvation (c.30-202)". Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621093.
Pełny tekst źródłaRobichaux, Robie Edward. "Canonical considerations of the Eucharist as the completion of the initiatory process". Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1990. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p029-0185.
Pełny tekst źródłaBishop, Andrew. "Eucharist shaping : church, mission and personhood in Gabriel Hebert's liturgy and society". Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2014. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/eucharist-shaping(9798bcfc-7679-4378-ae8c-238ddfedac8f).html.
Pełny tekst źródłaConnelly, Christopher D. "Pastors of souls and the diligent teaching about the most holy Eucharist". Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p029-0704.
Pełny tekst źródłaPhiri, Felix Mabvuto. "Receive your own mystery and become what you receive: the Eucharist as a source of reconciliation, justice and peace in conflicting Sub-Saharan Africa". Thesis, Boston College, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1855.
Pełny tekst źródłaTwentieth century is an epoch that has known the ravages of war, violence, oppression, exploitation and conflict. In a century marked by great human brokenness which has escalated the alienation from God, from one another and from the whole of creation; what would be the proper mission of the Church in such a context? This breakdown of the whole human family which has led to great suffering stares us in the face. It has been an epoch with two world wars, genocides, nature‘s rebellion as the weather and atmospheric conditions have been unpredictable and above all that world development has taken place on the heads of billions of people who live in abject poverty. In a world torn apart by conflicts and division, reconciliation becomes a necessary theological theme for mission, if we are to work for a better future for "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Rom. 3:23)
Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2009
Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry
Discipline: Sacred Theology
Raines, Scott Hawkley. "The Second Coming of Don Quixote: Painting and the Quixote as Eucharistic Art". BYU ScholarsArchive, 2019. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8268.
Pełny tekst źródłaArcadi, James Michael. "This bread is the body of Christ : an incarnational model of the Eucharist". Thesis, University of Bristol, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683690.
Pełny tekst źródłaBehan, Mary Kate. "Pilgrimage, Eucharist, and the Embodied Experience: Explorations Toward a Catholic Theology of Pilgrimage". University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1438088184.
Pełny tekst źródłaAmos, Charles Harry. "John Chrysostom's understanding of the Eucharist in its relation to the Christian life". Thesis, Rhodes University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001547.
Pełny tekst źródłaHewitt, Anthony R. "Liturgical adaptations in the celebrations of Baptism and Eucharist for the Hispanic community". Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p029-0715.
Pełny tekst źródłaLabuschagne, M. M. M. (Margaret Mary McDonald). "The virtual sacrament : a literature survey of the Eucharist as liturgical ritual online". Diss., University of Pretoria, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46190.
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Goosen, Johanna Maureen. "The chalice and the cup : the changing role of wine in the High Middle Ages". Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2467.
Pełny tekst źródłaMudd, Joseph C. "Eucharist and Critical Metaphysics: A Response to Louis-Marie Chauvet's Symbol and Sacrament Drawing on the Works of Bernard Lonergan". Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1743.
Pełny tekst źródłaThis dissertation offers a critical response to the fundamental sacramental theology of Louis-Marie Chauvet drawing on the works of Bernard Lonergan. Chauvet has articulated a significant critique of the western theological tradition's use of metaphysics, especially in interpreting doctrines relating to the presence of Christ in the Eucharist, liturgical sacrifice, and sacramental causality. Chauvet's criticisms raise questions about what philosophical tools allow theologians to develop a fruitful analogical understanding of the mysteries communicated in the sacraments. This dissertation responds to Chauvet's challenge to theology to adopt a new foundation in the symbolic by turning to the derived, critical metaphysics of Bernard Lonergan. The dissertation argues that Lonergan's critical metaphysics can help theologians to develop fruitful understandings of doctrines relating to Eucharistic presence, liturgical sacrifice, and sacramental causality. In addition Lonergan's categories of meaning offer resources for interpreting sacramental doctrines on the level of the time, while maintaining the genuine achievements of the past. Chapter one presents a survey of some recent Catholic Eucharistic theologies in order to provide a context for our investigation. Here we identify existentialist-phenomenological, postmodern, and neo-traditionalist approaches to Eucharistic doctrines. Chapters two, three, and four present a dialectical comparison of Chauvet and Lonergan on metaphysics as it pertains to Eucharistic theology specifically. Chapter two examines Chauvet's postmodern critique of metaphysical foundations of scholastic Eucharistic theology. Our particular concern will be with Chauvet's methods, especially whether his appropriation of the Heideggerian critique of scholastic theology offers an accurate account of Thomas Aquinas, and whether it offers a fruitful way forward in Eucharistic theology. Chapter three explores Lonergan's foundations for metaphysics in cognitional theory and epistemology. Lonergan's critical groundwork in cognitional theory attends to the problems of bias and the polymorphism of human consciousness that lead to a heuristic metaphysics rather than a tidy conceptual system. Chapter four explicates Lonergan's heuristic metaphysics and articulates the elements of metaphysics that enable an understanding of the general category of causality in critical realist metaphysics. Chapter five explores Lonergan's foundations for theological reflection paying particular attention to the importance of intellectual conversion before going on to survey Lonergan's categories of meaning. Chapter six engages the task of systematic theology and proposes an understanding of Eucharistic doctrines grounded in Lonergan's critical realist philosophy and transposed into categories of meaning
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2010
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Theology
Phiri, Mabvuto J. "Scandal Must Come: Reconciliation as a Divine-Human Kenotic Event in World Immersed in an Culture of Violence and Death". Thesis, Boston College, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3154.
Pełny tekst źródłaAbstract This dissertation grows from our experience of the perennial problem of violence and conflict witnessed at a great scale in Sub-Saharan Africa. In many parts of Africa, especially south of the Sahara, now even worse in the north, there are recurrent bloody conflicts, violence and wars. Ordinarily, one would be lured to argue that what Heraclitus said is the real experience of Africa: where it seems "war is father and king of all things."1 In this trend of thought war, bloody conflicts and violence are mere symptoms of the underlying belligerent nature of the universe. In Heraclitus' philosophical view any change (physical, social, political, economic) can only arise out of war or violent conflict. On the other hand, in reading and hearing stories from all over the world it reveals to us that violence, conflict and the difficulty of establishing lasting peace is a universal problem, not only African. This realization triggered this study to see if we could establish common roots to the problem of violence in the world and at the same time to seek ways of reconciling people in the aftermath or even during the conflict. Therefore although the African situation provoked the thought, our research covers the anthropological roots to the universal problem of recurrent violence that has immersed our world into a culture of death. However in the last chapter we will specifically draw our attention to the nature and mission of the Church of Africa in its social context in order to ascertain the foundational causes of the persistent violence and so seek ways to reconciliation. Employing René Girard's mimetic anthropology and trinitarian/eucharistic theology we argue that reconciliation is a Divine-Human self-emptying event because the one who initiates reconciliation must be ready to surrender to the offending other and become the price of that reconciliation. The Trinity and the gift of the Eucharist just before the paschal mystery presents to us that God, the offended other but loving other, in Jesus became the price of our reconciliation. Therefore every work of reconciliation is an imitation of a self-emptying God in Christ Jesus
Thesis (STD) — Boston College, 2013
Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry
Discipline: Sacred Theology