This study attempts to analyze the Eucharist in the Synoptic Gospels including their co-texts (Matt 26:14–35; Mark 14:10–31; Luke 22:3–23, 31–34), via a Mode Register Analysis based on Systemic Functional Linguistics. The purpose of this study is threefold: (1) to model a linguistic methodology and to apply it to each text of the Eucharist and its co-texts in the Synoptic Gospels, (2) to find meaningful linguistic characteristics of each designated text via a comparative analysis based on the preceding study, and finally (3) to suggest a balanced and plausible hypothesis which may offer convincing explanations of the Synoptic Gospels' construction process. The thesis of this study is as follows: in the Synoptic Gospels' construction process, each constructor reflected the oral Gospel tradition(s) significantly, as the one who had formed/contributed the tradition (probably Matthew), or the one who delivered it (probably Mark), or the one who preserved it (probably Luke), though there is also the possibility that each of them made use of written sources including the other Gospel(s).

The aims of this thesis are to illuminate the meaning of being cared for and treated by nurses and physicians, as narrated by psychiatric suicidal in-patients; the meaning of taking care of and treating patient at risk of committing suicide, as narrated by nurses and physicians; and the meaning of being met and having one’s suicidal relative taken care of by health personnel, as narrated by relatives. Narrative interviews were conducted with 42 adult patients at risk of committing suicide in an in-patient psychiatric unit, 19 RNs, 19 physicians, and 15 relatives at a hospital in Norway. The tape-recorded and transcribed interviews were interpreted using a phenomenological hermeneutic method. Nurses’ relations to patients at risk of committing suicide were illuminated via the dimension ‘Distance- Closeness’ (I). The relation of the suicidal patient to the nurses was illuminated via the dimension ‘Confirming- Lack of confirming’ (II). The relation of physicians to patients was illuminated via the dimension ‘Power to - Power over’. (III). The relation of suicidal patients to physicians was illuminated via the dimension ‘Participating approach-Observing approach’ (TV). Results from the relatives’ experiences of being met by health personnel of suicidal patients reveal that the context of being met was characterized by ‘being helpless-powerless’, and that the meaning of the experiences of ‘being met’ was reflected in six themes: ‘Being seen as a human being’; ‘Participating in an I-Thou relationship with personnel’; ‘Trusting personnel, treatment and care’; ‘Being trusted by personnel’; ‘Being consoled’; and ‘Entering into hope’ (V). The interpreted meanings of the experience of being cared for as a person at risk of committing suicide were illuminated as confirmation, communion, consolation and hope. Threaded through these meanings is the relation with self and others. Thus, the essence of the results that emerged from this study indicates the presence of a relational view of the care received by people at risk of committing suicide. / <p>Diss. (sammanfattning) Umeå : Umeå universitet, 2001, härtill 5 uppsatser</p> / digitalisering@umu

This study explores two ancient approaches to spirituality, together with the cultural contexts in which they developed. Spirituality is a popular concept today among people of widely differing religious traditions, and among those who espouse no religious tradition. Spirituality defines the way in which people relate to what concerns them ultimately, and ways in which this concern is manifested in their daily lives. This popular interest has resulted in the rise of spirituality as an academic discipline. An in-depth study of Celtic and African Spirituality is presented in this study. Celtic Spirituality dates from the fifth century CE onwards, whereas African Spirituality predates written history. Few examples of African Spirituality are recorded in writing before the twentieth century, although some have existed for centuries in oral form. Many Celtic poems, and other examples of traditional oral literature were collected and recorded in writing by medieval monks, and thus preserved for later generations in writing. Both Celtic and African Spiritualities have a healthy, integrated approach to the material world and to the spiritual world. They acknowledge a constant interaction between the two realms, and do not dismiss or devalue either the physical or the spiritual. Art and oral literature also play an important role in enabling communication and expression of ideas. Power and powerlessness emerges as a dominant theme in African thought and spirituality, especially where African peoples perceive themselves to be powerless politically or economically. Areas of relevance of Celtic and African Spiritualities to the life of the church today are identified and discussed, such as ecological spirituality; oral and symbolic communication; the role of women in church and society; and the theme of power. These are areas from which the world-wide church has much to learn from both Celtic and African Spiritualities. The findings of this study are then discussed in terms of their relevance and helpfulness to church and society. Insights from Celtic and African spiritualities should be used in the future to deepen devotional life of individual Christians and of congregations, and ideas such as ecological responsibility and recognition of the value and gifts of women should permeate the teaching and practice of the church in the future. / Religious Studies & Arabic Studies / D. Th.(Religious Studies & Arabic Studies)

History / M.A. (History)

This thesis submits Luigi Giussani’s theological writings to philosophical analysis. Giussani (born in Desio, 1922; died in Milan, 2005) was a prominent Italian author, public intellectual, university lecturer, and founder of the international Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation (CL). My enquiry is motivated by the experience of readers who find Giussani’s texts marked by vagueness and seeming inconsistencies despite his attempt to respond decisively and sensitively to real human problems. It also presents ideas from those works available only in Italian to an English-language readership for the first time. Rather than criticize the author’s style of exposition, or restate his arguments in a manner more suited to my audience, I treat the texts’ burdens as symptomatic of the author’s deeper, unarticulated concerns. I reconstruct Giussani’s implicit concerns using history, intellectual biography, sources, and the logic of enquiry itself. I then re-read his texts in the light of the explicit rendering of those concerns and, where the texts’ burdens still persist, I suggest repairs corresponding to those concerns and to the errant behaviours his writings were generated to correct. Three themes are examined: judgement, freedom, and beauty. These were prominent in Giussani’s dialogue with students from the 1950s onward and integral to his idea of the religious education of youth. My analysis is conceived as a contribution to philosophical theology, rather than to the philosophy of education. The areas flagged for repair, however, may nonetheless serve educators. I conclude that Giussani’s account is indeed shaped by his implicit concerns; that their nature provokes the essentialist arguments he mounts; and that his attempt to expound intrinsic, universal, and timeless claims runs against the pragmatic thrust of his writing. My repairs call for a better account of 1) practical deliberation, 2) discursive reason, 3) obedience in relation to autonomy, and 4) habits related to the formation of virtues. I argue that the practical grounds of his project are best anchored in robust solutions to the problems of ordinary life formulated from the deepest sources of repair from Giussani’s tradition (sacred scripture and sacred tradition, including the liturgy) rather than what he calls the “needs and exigencies of the heart,” which address a different problem (namely Enlightenment rationality or Neo-Thomism).

Résumé : L’expression de comportements sexuels et intimes sont directement reliés à la santé et à la qualité de vie au cours de la vie (Waite & Das, 2010). Pourtant, la sexualité et l’intimité des personnes âgées sont rarement abordées dans les écrits scientifiques ou dans la pratique professionnelle (Syme, 2014). Cette étude comble certaines lacunes de la recherche en approfondissant la compréhension des concepts de sexualité et bien-être sexuel des personnes âgées à partir de 15 entrevues qualitatives et d’une analyse thématique rigoureuse (Braun & Clarke, 2006). Chez les ainés à la retraite, vivant en couple hétérosexuel, en bonne santé générale et âgés de 65 ans et plus, cette recherche a permis d’explorer et de décrire 1) le sens donné à la sexualité, 2) le sens donné au bien-être sexuel, 3) les conditions et 4) les stratégies jugées favorables à leur bien-être sexuel. L’analyse thématique a conduit à l’élaboration de définitions de la sexualité et du bien-être sexuel chez les ainés répondant aux critères mentionnés ci-haut. Chez ces ainés, la sexualité se définit comme un processus dynamique en évolution constante orienté vers le bien-être sexuel et dépendant de la valeur, de la place et du sens qui sont attribués à quatre sources potentielles de sens : le répertoire génital, l’intimité affective, la communion/connexion sexuelle et les pertes sexuelles. Le bien-être sexuel est une composante de la sexualité, son sens fondamental et son but. Il comprend des sentiments de satisfaction physique et psychologique en lien avec la vie sexuelle, ainsi que des sentiments de bonheur avec soi-même et avec l’autre en général ?. La satisfaction sexuelle, enfin, comprend la satisfaction physique, c’est-à-dire le plaisir physique, la satisfaction de la fréquence des rapports sexuels, et la satisfaction psychologique, c’est-à-dire le plaisir de faire plaisir à l’autre et l’intimité affective du couple pendant et en dehors des relations sexuelles. Ces définitions inclusives de la sexualité et du bien-être sexuel des ainés ont été possibles grâce à un canevas de questions basé sur une théorie de l’actualisation du potentiel pendant le vieillissement en lien avec le sens à la vie de Leclerc (2007). C’est ainsi que ces définitions rejoignent des disciplines aussi diverses que la médecine, la psychologie humaniste, la gérontologie ou la sociologie. La présente recherche a permis de mettre en évidence et de décrire deux catégories de conditions favorables au bien-être sexuel des ainés : les conditions antérieures et les conditions actuelles. La compréhension de ces conditions pourra permettre aux professionnels de la santé de mieux orienter les ainés vers les conditions les plus propices à servir de point d’ancrage à leur actualisation sexuelle. Le thème des conditions antérieures est composé de l’éducation familiale, l’éducation religieuse et les relations précédentes. Le thème des conditions actuelles, quant à lui, regroupe les valeurs fondamentales, la retraite, le rapport au corps et la santé. Enfin, l’analyse des résultats a mis en évidence plusieurs stratégies relationnelles et sexuelles qui pourront être utilisées dans les plans d’intervention des professionnels de la santé ou les cours destinés aux retraités. Les stratégies relationnelles comprennent la création d’un climat positif, la gestion des activités et du temps et la gestion des conflits. Les stratégies sexuelles se composent de la gestion des relations sexuelles et de la gestion des problèmes sexuels. // Abstract : Sexuality, sexual well - being, and sexual actualization of healthy retired elderly the objective of this qualitative study was to explore: 1) the meaning given to sexuality and 2) sexual well - being, and 3) the conditions and 4) strategies fostering the elderly’s sexual well - being. The sample consisted of 15 healthy, retired individuals in heterosexual and committed relationships, aged between 65 and 7 8 from the province of Quebec, Canada. A thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006) revealed definitions of sexuality and sexual well - being. Sexuality in aging is a dynamic and evolving process leading to sexual well - being based on the value and place assigned to four sources of potential meaning: genital repertoire, emotional intimacy, communion /connection, and sexual losses. Sexual well - being includes feelings of physical and psychological sexual satisfaction and feelings of well - being and happiness with oneself, with others, and in general. Finally, results showed a series of previous and current conditions as well as relationship and sexual strategies fostering the elderly’s sexual well - being.

Although by 1900, over 60% of the British missionary workforce in South Asia was female, women’s role in mission has often been overlooked. This thesis focuses upon women of the two leading Anglican societies – the high-Church Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) and the evangelical Church Missionary Society (CMS) – during a particularly underexplored and eventful period in mission history. It uses primary material from the archives of SPG at Rhodes House, Oxford, CMS at the University of Birmingham, St Stephen’s Community, Delhi, and the United Theological College, Bangalore, to extend previous research on the beginnings of women’s service in the late-nineteenth century, exploring the ways in which women missionaries responded to unprecedented upheaval in Britain, India, and the worldwide Anglican Communion in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. In so doing, it contributes to multiple overlapping historiographies: not simply to the history of Church and mission, but also to that of gender, the British Empire, Indian nationalism, and decolonisation. Women missionaries were products of the expansion of female education, professional opportunities, and philanthropic activity in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Britain. Their vocation was tested by living conditions in India, as well as by contradictory calls to marriage, career advancement, familial duties, or the Religious Life. Their educational, medical, and evangelistic work altered considerably between 1917 and 1950 owing to ‘Indianisation’ and ‘Diocesanisation,’ which sought to establish a self-governing ‘native’ Church. Women’s absorption in local affairs meant they were usually uninterested in imperial, nationalist, and Anglican politics, and sometimes became estranged from the home Church. Their service was far more than an attempt to ‘colonise’ Indian hearts and minds and propagate Western ideology. In reality, women missionaries’ engagement with India and Indians had a far more profound impact upon them than upon the Indians they came to serve.

[pt] A percepção da imensa exclusão existente no Brasil motivou o surgimento, dentro do Movimento dos Focolares, da Economia de Comunhão - a qual é uma proposta que visa amenizar a situação de necessidade e miséria enfrentada por certas parcelas da população de todo o mundo. A questão colocada nesta dissertação é se essa iniciativa é, de fato, capaz de contribuir para o enfrentamento da exclusão social, ainda que localmente. Para tentar respondê-la, estudou-se o caso do município de Vargem Grande Paulista, uma vez que ali nasceu a Economia de Comunhão. Foi, então, construído um quadro conceitual de referência, baseado, principalmente, na obra de Norbert Elias e John L. Scotson intitulada Os Estabelecidos e os Outsiders. Este foi utilizado para interpretar a realidade observada na comunidade e nas empresas de Economia de Comunhão. Aqueles autores demonstram que a exclusão, além da dimensão material, tem uma importante dimensão simbólica. A partir da observação tanto das intenções originais associadas à idéia de uma economia baseada na partilha quanto da conduta das pessoas envolvidas, conclui-se que a Economia de Comunhão tem potencial para enfrentar a dimensão simbólica da exclusão. Resta saber se tal projeto crescerá o suficiente para atingir uma massa crítica capaz de fazer com que os resultados se reflitam em indicadores macro- econômicos e sociais. / [en] The exclusion that exists in Brasil has motivated the emergence of the Economy of Communion from within Focolari Movement. That is a project that aims at relieving the situation of necessity and misery that certain parts of world population deal with. The question that is focused in this dissertation is if such project is capable of contributing to cope with social exclusion, even locally. In order to answer it, the case of Vargem Grande Paulista was studied, since it was the place where the Economy of Communion was born. Then, a conceptual framework was built based on the book of Norbert Elias e John L. Scotson: The Established and the Outsiders. It was used to interpret the reality observed at the community and among the Economy of Communion companies. Those authors show that exclusion has both a material and a symbolic dimension. Based on the original intentions associated with the idea of a economy of sharing and also on the observations on individual`s behavior, it is concluded that the Economy of Communion has potential to cope with the symbolic dimension of exclusion. However, another question remains to be answered: will it grow enough to a critical mass capable of making the results perceivable at macro economic and social indicators?

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-10-22T12:32:04Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigo Antonio da Silva.pdf: 763487 bytes, checksum: 6fbcd6c5dfe59659585620883c9ebf44 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-10-22T12:32:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigo Antonio da Silva.pdf: 763487 bytes, checksum: 6fbcd6c5dfe59659585620883c9ebf44 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-09-05 / Hermetic definitions about the Church can not to express the fullness of her Mystery. Overcoming the vision of juridical emphasis, the ecclesiology developed from the Second Vatican Council takes the theological way of the first millennium and rescues aspects, images and notions that complement each other. The Church recognizes herself as being a mystery: desired by God, she has her foundation, life and destiny in the Trinity. Your life should express Trinitarian communion. It is the new People of God who walk in communion with each other and with God towards the heavenly homeland. Evidently, this vision rescued and renewed in the Council brings with it new ecclesial relations ad intra and ad extra. The Ecclesiology of Communion, along with other important images and definitions, still seems to lack more attention and also remains with an immense open field of practical applications in the ecclesial life. The present dissertative text intends to explore the foundations and relevance of this ecclesiology for the present time and the possible implications already observed in some scenarios of the Church. For this purpose, the author offers the results of the research in three moments: first, he presents the fundamental biblical concepts that relate to the ecclesiology of communion: community, communion and People of God. Next, the contrast between the juridical ecclesiology characteristic of the second millennium and the paradigm shift present in the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium, as well as some advances achieved in the trinitarian and ecclesiological theologies in the post-Council, is made. Finally, the focus is on some of the ecclesial articulations developed in recent years: the dialogue movement in the internal and external spheres of the Church, the reception in Latin America, as well as the perspectives opened from the pontificate of Pope Francis / Definições herméticas a respeito da Igreja não conseguem expressar a totalidade do seu Mistério. Superando a visão de ênfase jurídica, a eclesiologia desenvolvida a partir do Concílio Vaticano II se coloca na via teológica do primeiro milênio e resgata aspectos, imagens e noções que se complementam. A Igreja se reconhece como sendo mistério: desejada por Deus, ela tem seu fundamento, vida e destino na Trindade. Sua vida deve expressar a comunhão trinitária. Trata-se do novo Povo de Deus que caminha em comunhão entre si e com Deus rumo à pátria celeste. Evidentemente, esta visão resgatada e renovada no Concílio traz consigo novas relações eclesiais ad intra e ad extra. A Eclesiologia de Comunhão, ao lado de outras importantes imagens e definições, ainda parece carecer de maior atenção e também permanece com um imenso campo aberto de aplicações práticas na vida eclesial. O presente texto dissertativo pretende explorar os fundamentos e a relevância desta eclesiologia para a atual época e as possíveis implicações já observadas em alguns cenários da Igreja. Para tal intento, o autor dispõe o resultado da pesquisa em três momentos: primeiramente, apresenta os conceitos bíblicos fundamentais que se relacionam com a eclesiologia de comunhão: comunidade, comunhão e Povo de Deus. Em seguida, é feito o contraste entre a eclesiologia jurídica característica do segundo milênio e a mudança de paradigma presente na Constituição Dogmática Lumen Gentium, além de alguns avanços alcançados nas teologias trinitária e eclesiológicas no pós-Concílio. Por fim, o olhar é voltado para algumas das articulações eclesiais desenvolvidas nos últimos anos: o movimento de diálogo nos âmbitos interno e externo da Igreja, a recepção na América Latina, bem como as perspectivas abertas a partir do pontificado do Papa Francisco

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:49:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jose Batista da Costa Sobrinho.pdf: 656452 bytes, checksum: 0d7996a8084e36759516c9f65f162851 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2001-08-09 / This dissertation is the result of research, in which the profile of the gender relationships within the Conselho Nacional de Leigos e Leigas Católicos do Brasil was examined. To produce this profile we resorted to the theory of philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, history of sociology, psychology and psychoanalyses which forms the interdisciplinary methodological background of this dissertation. We argue that men and women, daily and historically are the product of singular and plural relationships. Some live in permanent relationships that imply both the search for differences as well as similarities, in their complex socio-cultural interaction. As all human relationship occur within history, we contextualised the group and synthesized their history. In the synthesis, it is sustained that the foundation of the group occurred during the military dictatorship and the their history has been marked by intense creativity in living their daily human relationships. The profile of gender is painted by means of careful interpretation of twelve variables. An analyses of these variables was demanded due to complex gender relationship experienced. With this the leadership of the CNL was able to live positively new gender relationships, seeking community, communion and autonomy. Based on this profile future actions amongst the leadership of the group is proposed and analysed. / Essa dissertação é o resultado da pesquisa, em que é esboçado o perfil da vivência das relações de gênero no Conselho Nacional de Leigos e Leigas Católicos do Brasil. Para traçá-lo, recorreu-se a aportes teóricos da filosofia, da lingüística, da antropologia, da história, da sociologia, da psicologia e da psicanálise, gerando um embasamento teórico e metodológico interdisciplinar. Sustenta-se que homens e mulheres, cotidiana e historicamente, são tecidos por singulares e plurais relações. Uns e outros vivem em permanentes relações que implicam tanto a busca da diferença quanto da igualdade, em complexas interações sócio-culturais. Como toda relação humana ocorre na história, então, contextualiza-se o grupo e efetua-se a síntese de sua história. Na síntese, é sustentado que a fundação do grupo ocorreu em contexto da ditadura militar e que sua trajetória histórica ficou marcada por intensa criatividade em vivenciar, cotidianamente, novas relações humanas. O perfil de gênero é pintado por meio de uma cuidadosa interpretação dos sinais em doze variáveis. A análise das variáveis foi exigência para a expressão da complexa relação de gênero vivida. Com isto, ficou desenhado que as lideranças do CNL conseguiram viver, positivamente, novas relações de gênero. Perpassa as novas relações a constante busca da comunhão e da autonomia. Em base ao perfil deslindado, são indicadas futuras ações entre as lideranças do grupo analisado.