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Augustinian themes in Lumen Gentium, 8

dc.contributor.advisorReese, Alanen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLiptay, Johnen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberDeutscher, Thomas B.en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberStill, Carlen_US
dc.creatorRobertson, Charles Douglasen_US
dc.date.accessioned2008-10-11T11:51:05Zen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-04T05:00:56Z
dc.date.available2009-10-23T08:00:00Zen_US
dc.date.available2013-01-04T05:00:56Z
dc.date.created2008en_US
dc.date.issued2008en_US
dc.date.submitted2008en_US
dc.description.abstractPope Benedict XVI, since his election to the papacy, has urged Catholic clergy and theologians to interpret the documents of the second Vatican Council using a "hermeneutic of continuity." This thesis seeks to answer whether such a hermeneutic is possible by focusing on one aspect of the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium. The methodology here employed is a critical analysis of one of the major patristic sources of Lumen Gentium’s teaching, St. Augustine of Hippo. In claiming St. Augustine’s support for its doctrine, Lumen Gentium also offers an interpretation of his thought. For Lumen Gentium’s teaching to be plausible, we must be able to conclude that Augustine’s teaching is essentially identical to it. In that connection, Lumen Gentium’s claim that the Church is both a spiritual and visible reality forces us to consider a controverted topic in Augustinian studies: can Augustine’s “city of God” be identified with the hierarchical Church? In order to resolve that question, we will examine both the historical and eschatological aspects of the Church in Augustine’s thought, with some reference (treated in an appendix) to the compatibility between his theory of predestination and his ecclesiology. Further, what the Council meant when it said that the Church of Christ “subsists in” the Catholic Church, and whether this change in terminology, along with its implications in the field of ecumenism, can be reconciled with St. Augustine’s ecclesiology must be determined with a view to establishing the continuity between pre and post conciliar Catholic ecclesiology. St. Augustine developed his understanding of the nature of the Church in the early years of his ecclesiastical career through his polemical battles with the Donatist schismatics, and so the history of that schism is related in an appendix.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-10112008-115105en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectAugustine of Hippoen_US
dc.subjectCatholic Churchen_US
dc.subjectDonatistsen_US
dc.subjectecumenismen_US
dc.subjectecclesiologyen_US
dc.subjecthermeneutic of continuityen_US
dc.subjectLumen Gentiumen_US
dc.subjectpredestinationen_US
dc.subjectsubsistit inen_US
dc.subjectVatican IIen_US
dc.titleAugustinian themes in Lumen Gentium, 8en_US
dc.type.genreThesisen_US
dc.type.materialtexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentHistoryen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Saskatchewanen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US

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