The Church as a Theophanic Community

The Vatican II document, Lumen Gentium, holds multiple images of the Church in tension and was greatly informed by two ecclesiological models: The Church as Sacrament and eucharistic ecclesiology. This thesis explores the Church as a community of theophany as a model that is not only in harmony with Lumen Gentium, but finds a helpful cohesion of its images. An early New Testament and patristic christology understood Jesus to be the ultimate theophany of God. The Church, as the body of Christ shares and perpetuates this embodied theophany into the world. Luke's Pentecost narrative has been read as the descent of the eschatological Temple in which the theophanic Spirit dwells. The Church is thus constituted by the theophany of the Holy Spirit. It is suggested, therefore, that the Church as a theophanic community is a synthesis of the Church's christological and pneumatological constitution.

Name thesis:degree_name

MA

Level thesis:degree_level

Immediate Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Theology

Year dc:date.available

2015

Author dc:creator

• Levis, Daniel

Contributors dc:contributor

• Sebastian Madathummuriyil
• Radu Bordeianu

• Body of Christ
• Church
• Ecclesiology
• Lumen Gentium
• Temple of the Holy Spirit
• Theophany

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/821

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-1837