En s’appuyant sur l’analyse des textes produits par J.-M. Tillard à l’occasion de sa participation aux commissions de dialogue œcuménique (ARCIC 1, Foi et Constitution), la thèse montre comment J.-M. Tillard, en militant de l’œcuménisme, avait recours à la notion de communion pour élaborer une « ecclésiologie œcuménique de communion ». Le relevé des occurrences des termes avec lesquels il désigne l’unité de communion, en particulier dans ses articles, permet d’abord de démonter l’idée d’un concept systématique qui organiserait son ecclésiologie. L’analyse de son recours à la notion de communion dans son raisonnement, montre qu’elle fonctionne comme un concept opérationnel avec lequel il cherche à corriger les insuffisances théologiques qu’il constate dans la théologie des manuels d’abord, puis dans la réception œcuménique de Lumen Gentium et, enfin, dans la recherche d’une nouvelle méthode de dialogue oecuménique. Sa présence dans les textes signale que J.-M. Tillard apporte une pierre à sa construction ecclésiologique dans les champs théologiques où il intervient. En s’appuyant sur les premiers résultats obtenus grâce à la méthode utilisée à l’ARCIC 1 et à Foi et Constitution, il exploite la polysémie de la notion de « communion » grâce à laquelle, il envisage les divisions confessionnelles à partir d’une idée théologale de l’unité ecclésiale comme toujours déjà donnée. Avec elle, il renforce les éléments sacramentels et pneumatologiques de son approche ecclésiologique et promeut une conception proprement théologique du dialogue œcuménique. Mais faute d’avoir contextualisé ses sources, son ecclésiologie se révèle finalement déconnectée des aspérités de la vie ecclésiale dont il prétend s’inspirer. La notion de « communion » ne lui permet pas de penser de façon convaincante les formes institutionnelles de son ecclésiologie de communion. L’ampleur de sa culture théologique et la générosité de son engagement ont néammoins permis d’aborder à nouveaux frais les impasses théologiques dans lesquelles le dialogue œcuménique était bloqué et contribué au renouvellement de l’ecclésiologie post conciliaire.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Tufts University, 1999. / Adviser: Sheila Emerson. Submitted to the Dept. of English. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 177-184). Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;

Thesis (MA(N.T.))--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 206-217) Available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

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Synge's plays contain some of the most arresting figures in modern drama, his characterization second only to his unique language, the most striking feature of his writing. Of the men, only Christy Mahon and Martin Doul stand out but the women form a brilliant company usually overshadowing the other characters. Chapter 1, p. 1.

This thesis attempts to develop a concept of 'ecological misapprehension' by means of an object-oriented ecocritical analysis of several works by J. M. Coetzee. Noting Coetzee's profound, often overlooked interest in nonhuman, nonanimal ecological existents (on the one hand), and his neomodernist propensity to interrogate the viability of signification (on the other), I argue that his works repeatedly gesture towards an ontological reality of ecological objects that is necessarily extratextual. I further argue that if human ‘readers’—both of and within Coetzee’s fiction—are inextricably entangled within modes of discourse by which meaning is made of those objects, the encounter between human subject and ecological object always takes place across a discursive threshold best understood in terms of the ‘irreducible gap’ that object-oriented ontology identifies between an object’s being and its perception. This gap problematises our apprehension of the ecological object as such, thus rendering ecological misapprehension inevitable—and, by extension, demanding that we remain attuned to the character, density, or degree of our propensity to misapprehend. Variants of this dynamic—and its troubling ramifications—are illuminated by means of close readings of a range of Coetzee’s texts, with particular attention paid to Disgrace, Life & Times of Michael K, and the short story ‘Nietverloren’, and are subsequently compared with examples of misapprehension in the world beyond the page. By developing this concept and identifying examples of it both within and without Coetzee’s works, the thesis aims to illuminate a fundamental obstacle to productive modes of environmental thinking in the Anthropocene, to suggest the activist potential of metafiction and the postmodernist reading practices it encourages, and to reaffirm the potential social utility of literary scholarship when it is conducted with an awareness of its own tendency to misapprehend.

Terror in the African Anglophone novels of Chinua Achebe, Doris Lessing, J.M. Coetzee and Laila Lalami originated as a consequence of a breakdown in the family structure. Traditionally, conventional patriarchy, in addition to securing the psychological and material needs of the family, has served as one of the building blocks of tribes and nations. Since the father figure within narrative is allegorized as a metonym of the state, the absence of patriarchal authority represents the disintegration of the link between individuals and national institutions. Consequently, characters may also turn to committing acts of terror as a rejection of the dominant national ideology. This dissertation aims to demonstrate how the breakdown of the family and the conventional gendering of roles may give rise to terrorist violence in the African setting. To recontextualize the persistence of the Conradian definition of terror as an Anglo-European phenomenon brought to Africa, I contrast the ways in which the breakdown of the family affects both indigenous and Anglo-European households in Africa across generations. I suggest that, under the reinvention of older gender norms, the unfulfilling Anglo-European patriarchy exposes Anglo-European women to indigenous violence. Moreover, I theorize that the absence of patriarchal authority leads indigenous families to seek substitutions in the form of alternative family institutions, such as religious and political organizations, that conflict with the national ideology. Furthermore, against the backdrop of globalized capitalism, commodity fetishism emerges as a substitute to compensate for the absent father figure. Therefore, this project demonstrates the indisputable relationship between the breakdown of the family structure and individual acts of terror that aim at the fulfillment of capitalist fetish or individual desire, and at the expense of national security. Finally, the rhetorical dimension of terror against family and women in Africa will be proven to be the allegorized norm of globalized terror in the twenty-first century.