Thesis (J.C.L.)--Catholic University of America, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-52).

Thesis (J.C.L.)--Catholic University of America, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 69-71).

Thesis (J.C.L.)--Catholic University of America, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 69-71).

Universidade Católica de Pernambuco / Nosso estudo pretende mostrar como as Missões Populares, surgidas na idade moderna e adaptadas às circunstâncias atuais, valendo-se inclusive, das novas tecnologias de comunicação, vêm sendo novamente incentivada pela Igreja Católica como alternativa no resgate de costumes e valores sociais e religiosos perdidos nas últimas décadas, visando principalmente evitar a migração de fiéis para outras Igrejas e para os chamados novos movimentos religiosos. Para isso, analisaremos a documentação produzida pelas igrejas do Regional, em busca das justificativas usadas para sua retomada, e de seus reais interesses, ligados, segundo supomos, à busca da reconquista/manutenção da hegemonia religiosa católica na sociedade do Nordeste Oriental do Brasil. Hegemonia esta solapada, nos decênios sucessivos ao aggiornamento católico implantado após o Concílio Vaticano II (1962-1965), por processos tanto ad intra, tais como desnorteamento e perda de referências em função das mudanças no imaginário católico, quanto ad extra, resultantes da secularização, das migrações, da urbanização no interior dos estados e da penetração, cada vez mais agressiva, de igrejas e movimentos religiosos concorrentes com a proposta católica. / Our study aims to show how such a method, which emerged in the modern age, once adapted to current circumstances and making use of new communication technologies, is being encouraged again by the Catholic Church as an alternative in the recovery of traditions and social and religious values lost in the last decades, mainly aiming to prevent the migration of believers to other churches and to the so-called new religious movements. For this, we will analyze the documentation produced by the Regional churches in search of the justifications used for their recovery, and their real interests, linked, as we assume, the pursuit of conquest / maintenance of Catholic religious hegemony in the society of Eastern Northeast Brazil. Hegemony is undermined in successive decades of the Catholic aggiornamento implemented after the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), both for ad intra processes such as disorientation and loss of landmarks due to changes in the Catholic imagination, and for ad extra, as a result of secularization, migration, urbanization within states and penetration, more aggressive, churches and religious movements competing with the proposed Catholic.

In 896 Pope Stephen VI put the corpse of his predecessor, Pope Formosus, on trial in a Church synod in Rome, known since as the Cadaver Synod. The pontificate and the ordinations of Formosus were annulled and he was reburied in a pilgrims' cemetery from which his body was quickly removed and thrown into the Tiber. It still is generally assumed that Formosus was tried as revenge for his having betrayed Lambert of Spoleto by inviting Arnulf of Carinthia to become emperor, and that Pope Stephen VI was carrying out the wishes of Lambert and his mother. This dissertation, by examining the entire career of Formosus as well as the manuscript evidence for the Cadaver Synod and the 898 Synod of Ravenna, which overturned it, will present a new view of what happened in this neglected period of European history. In so doing, it has reached very different conclusions about the trial and its purpose.

Summaries in German and English. / Gegenstand der vorliegenden Forschungsarbeit ist die Dokumantarische Evaluation der missional ausgerichteten Gemeindeberatung des Gemeindeberatungsinstituts Trafo. Dabei soll die transformatorische Wirkung der Kombination von Gemeindeberatung und dem aus der Gemeinwesenarbeit adaptierten und für Gemeindearbeit modifizierten Transformationszyklus auf der Basis von dokumentarischer Sozialforschung und dem Empirisch Theologischen Praxiszyklus intradisziplinär erforscht werden. Die Dokumentarische, qualitative Forschungsmethode generiert ihre Ergebnisse nicht in den Aussagen des Common Sense, sondern durch das atheoretische konjunktive Wissen der Beteiligten. Zugang zu diesem impliziten Wissen verschafft sich die Forschung durch Rekonstruktion kollektiver Handlungslogiken, die auf der Ebene des „modus operandi“ angesiedelt sind. Diese Herangehensweise ermöglicht es der Forschung unbewusste Alltagserfahrungen, wie in diesem Fall die Teilnahme an einem Trafo-Gemeindeberatungsprozess und damit einhergehenden transformatorischen Veränderungen prozesshaft zu reproduzieren und die unbewussten Handlungsmuster für die Auswertung fruchtbar werden zu lassen. Die aus dieser Vorgehensweise gewonnenen Ergebnisse speisen die Erkenntnisfunktionen von Evaluationen, die in Erkenntnis-, Kontroll-, Dialog- und Lernfunktion (Stockmann 2007:25) zu unterteilen sind, und die vor allem zur Verbesserung der Beratungsqualität dient und damit gleichzeitig eine Auswirkung auf die Gemeindetransformation an sich hat. / Subject-matter of the following MTh dissertation is a documentary evaluation of missional church-counsel in the setting of Trafo-Church-Counsel Institute. Aim of this research is to evaluate the impact of transformation within the Trafo-Church-Counsel Program which is conducted of a combination of church-counsel and a transformation cycle of community organizing adapted for churches. Based on documentary social science and the empirical-theological praxis cycle this study will be performed in an intradisciplinary manner. Documentary research doesn’t generate its results based on common sense but on collective tacid knowledge of the participants. Further access will be gained through reconstructing collective implicit logic of action. This specific methodical approach provides insights on missional transformation in general and in the specific case of Trafo-Church-Counsel Institute. The results of this study will provide on one hand answers for the quest of evaluations which include learn functions as: awareness, control, increased insights for dialogue with stakeholders and learn function for quality improvement (Stockmann 2007:25) and will enhance on the other hand church counsel and church transformation. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M. Th. (Missiology)

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La thèse porte sur la réflexion de Ratzinger sur la "raison". La critique de la raison moderne, ainsi que l'éléboration d'un modèle alternatif de raison, permet de cerner les enjeux de la théologie de Ratzinger et de saisir le fil conducteur de ses nombreuses batailles. / Doctorat en Philosophie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

My thesis examines relations among practitioners of various religions, especially Christians and Jews, during the era when Jesus’ project went from being a Galilean sect, to a persecuted minority, to religio licita status, and eventually to imperial favor, all happening between the first century resurrection of Jesus and the fourth century rise of Constantine. There is an abiding image of the Church in wider public consciousness that it is unwittingly and in some cases antagonistically exclusionist. This is not a late-developing image. I trace it to the period that the church developed into a formal organization with the establishment of canons and creeds defined by Church councils. This notion is so pervasive that an historical retrospective of Christianity of any period, from the sect that became a movement, to the Reformation, to the present day’s multiple Christian iterations, is framed by the late Patristic era. The conflicts and solutions reached in that period provided enduring definition to the Church while silencing dissent. I refer here to such actions as the destruction of books and letters and the banishment of bishops. Before there emerged the urgent perceived need for doctrinal uniformity, the presence of Christianity provided a resilient non-militant opponent to and an increasing intellectual critique of all religious traditions, including that of the official gods that were seen to hold the empire together. When glaringly manifest cleavages in the empire persisted, the Emperor Constantine sought to use the church to help bring political unity. He called for church councils, starting with Nicaea in 325 CE that took no account for churches outside the Roman Empire, and many within, even though councils were called “Ecumenical.” The presumption that the church was fully representative without asking for permission from a broader field of constituents is just that: a presumption. This thesis studies the ancient world of Christianity’s growth to explore whether, in that age of new and untested toleration, there was a more advisable way of responding to the invitation to the political table. The answer to this can help us formulate, and perhaps revise, some of our conduct today, especially for Christians who obtain a voice in powerful places. / Christian Spirituality, Church History & Missiology / D. Th. (Church History)

My thesis examines relations among practitioners of various religions, especially Christians and Jews, during the era when Jesus’ project went from being a Galilean sect, to a persecuted minority, to religio licita status, and eventually to imperial favor, all happening between the first century resurrection of Jesus and the fourth century rise of Constantine. There is an abiding image of the Church in wider public consciousness that it is unwittingly and in some cases antagonistically exclusionist. This is not a late-developing image. I trace it to the period that the church developed into a formal organization with the establishment of canons and creeds defined by Church councils. This notion is so pervasive that an historical retrospective of Christianity of any period, from the sect that became a movement, to the Reformation, to the present day’s multiple Christian iterations, is framed by the late Patristic era. The conflicts and solutions reached in that period provided enduring definition to the Church while silencing dissent. I refer here to such actions as the destruction of books and letters and the banishment of bishops. Before there emerged the urgent perceived need for doctrinal uniformity, the presence of Christianity provided a resilient non-militant opponent to and an increasing intellectual critique of all religious traditions, including that of the official gods that were seen to hold the empire together. When glaringly manifest cleavages in the empire persisted, the Emperor Constantine sought to use the church to help bring political unity. He called for church councils, starting with Nicaea in 325 CE that took no account for churches outside the Roman Empire, and many within, even though councils were called “Ecumenical.” The presumption that the church was fully representative without asking for permission from a broader field of constituents is just that: a presumption. This thesis studies the ancient world of Christianity’s growth to explore whether, in that age of new and untested toleration, there was a more advisable way of responding to the invitation to the political table. The answer to this can help us formulate, and perhaps revise, some of our conduct today, especially for Christians who obtain a voice in powerful places. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / D. Th. (Church History)