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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Sacramentality."”.
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"The Best Soil of Their Hearts": Protestant Explorations of Catholic Spirituality in Cooper, Longfellow, and Hawthorne
… these authors engaged deeply with Catholic sacramentality, discovering an appeal in the Catholic faith tradition that provided possible answers to questions about spirituality in an increasingly pluralistic democratic society. The first chapter explores the aesthetic appeal of Roman Catholic …
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'A Deep and Imperturbable Joy': Saving Christianity from Postmodern Evangelical Heresy
… of God but the rejection of the 'ontological sacramentality' of the life of man. The concluding argument posits that evangelicals could arguably reinvigorate their worship by looking to reclaim a central place for sacrament.</p>
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Sacramental Theology of Elochukwu Uzukwu in Light of Vatican II and Its Application in African Contexts
… which can submerge local voices and separate sacramentality from symbols and values that resonate differently with various peoples and cultures. This dissertation shows how Elochukwu Uzukwu utilizes the provisions of Vatican II, in conjunction with resources from African traditional wisdom and …
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Beauty as transcendent in Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, and Rumer Godden.
Sacramentality—the close interrelation between the spiritual and the physical—plays an important role in the Catholic Church. To most Catholics, almost any object can be a means of receiving the grace of God and entering further into the divine life. This perspective has significant implications …
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The Future of the Sacrament of Penance: An African Reconciliatory Paradigm in the Light of Karl Rahner's Theology of Penance
… culture and Karl Rahner’s theology of the sacramentality of the Church, this doctoral thesis opens a debate about the kind of renewal required to revitalise the dwindling practice of sacramental confession. The Second Vatican Council, in which the German Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner played …
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Homosexuality and the Formation of Conscience: An Examination of Traditional Catholic Anthropological, Theological, and Ethical Evaluations in Light of Contemporary Moral Markers
The question of homosexuality remains a daunting task to be addressed by the Church as well as theological ethicists. Lively, and often biased opinions have been presented in the last two centuries; however, use of traditional sources, such a Scripture, Natural Law, empirical data, and Tradition …
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Evelyn Waugh and la nouvelle théologie.
This dissertation seeks to provide a more profound study of Evelyn Waugh's relation to twentieth-century Catholic theology than has yet been attempted. In doing so, it offers a radical revision of our understanding of Waugh's relation to the Second Vatican Coucil. Waugh's famous contempt for the …