This dissertation deals with life and work of Jan Prokop Schaaffgotsche (1748-1813), who was from 1785 till his own death in the lead of the newly established episcopacy of České Budějovice town. In its first part this work characterizes spiritual and social environment of the Habsburg monarchy during the period of reformed absolutism of Joseph II in which Schaaffgotsche lived whole his life. In the next part my dissertation comes closer to his origin, youth, studies, spiritual formation and years of work in various church offices until the time he was nominated by Emperor Joseph II to the post of bishop in České Budějovice. Coming part shows various important events of the first quarter century of the new diocese existence. Those are closely connected with Schaaffgotsches activities. Based on this research and critically compared with specialized literature this work thematically analyzes his relation with church and state as well as his spiritual direction and personality, together with his categorization to the broad spiritual flows of his age. Topic of this dissertation is primarily compiled on the bases of Czech and also foreign archive resources.

O objeto deste estudo é a justiça eclesiástica, analisada sob dois aspectos: as relações estabelecidas pelos juízes eclesiásticos com os fiéis e com os juízes seculares; e os mecanismos de coerção que pôs em prática. A metodologia comparativa baseou-se nas seguintes fontes: processos judiciais eclesiásticos; recursos de averiguação de delitos - as querelas, queixas e denúncias; norma jurídica - expressa nas constituições sinodais, Ordenações e tratados; correspondência de bispos e governadores do século XVIII. Tais fontes evidenciam as várias facetas da justiça colonial: a virtude primeira do Príncipe; e a prerrogativa episcopal. Ponto central na evangelização tridentina, a justiça eclesiástica preconizava maior presença no cotidiano dos fiéis, e uma busca dos pecadores públicos, mediante devassas, denúncias, queixas e querelas. Como corolário deste exercício, verificam-se entre as autoridades seculares e eclesiásticas relações de colaboração, concorrência e conflito. Isto desencadeou múltiplas reações entre as pessoas leigas e eclesiásticas, alvos daquela ação. / The object of this study is the ecclesiastical justice in the diocese of the Minas Gerais, analyzed in two ways: the competitive relations of the cooperation, elimination and conflict that established their judges delegates with the people and the authorities of the colony; the mechanisms of coercion that put into practice. A comparative methodology was based on the following sources: ecclesiastical court proceedings, resources investigation of crimes, such as suits, complaints and wanton; the rule of law, and correspondence of the bishops and governors of the eighteenth century. These sources show the various facets assumed by the justice to colonial times: the main prerrogative of the Prince; and also episcopal prerogative, according to the decreesTridentine. The bishop chased the public sinners; received suits and denunciations and established wanton. The ecclesiastical justice was essential element of evangelization Tridentine; however, between secular and ecclesiastical authorities, were relations of the competition, collaboration and conflict. This triggered multiple reactions among people, the target of his action.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the Church of England’s understanding of ‘episcopal’ episcopacy and ordained ministry, including their ecclesiological implications and ecumenical consequences. Special attention is given to the refusal of interchangeability of ordained ministers with ‘non-episcopal’ churches (whilst allowing inter-communion), on the grounds that they lacked a ‘historic succession’ of bishops (cf. The Meissen Declaration and Agreement). This claim gives the adjective ‘episcopal’ a denominational, (quasi-)sacramental connotation (hence the inverted commas). Official Anglican statements today claim that the concept of episcopacy in a ‘historic succession’ is and always has been an integral part of ‘Anglican’ teaching as part of its ‘Catholic’, pre-Reformation heritage, whereas it appears that before the nineteenth century the Church of England had been defined largely in territorial and institutional terms. This faced challenges both from without and within, with an increasingly secular and multi-denominational context in Britain (with Non-conformists slowly gaining equal social and political rights) and in the face of the emergence of the Anglican Communion (and ecumenism in the twentieth century). This required the Church of England to forge a distinctive, trans-national, denominational identity for itself and for ‘Anglicanism’ (which can be described as the ‘Anglicanization of the Church of England’). In the first half of the nineteenth century, the English episcopate exercised a more active leadership role (the ‘episcopalization of the Church of England’), creating bishoprics in overseas dependencies and strengthening the influence of the Church of England there and also that of the episcopate (a colonial aspect of the ‘Anglicanization’). In the second half of the nineteenth century the bishops established interchangeability of ministers with formerly English, ‘Episcopal’ churches. This development occurred at the high point of Anglo-Catholic and ritualistic influence (which resulted in a ‘Catholicization of the Church of England’, opposed by Evangelicals and High-churchmen of the pre-Tractarian type). The nature of ‘Anglicanism’ was increasingly interpreted as ‘catholic’/‘Catholic’. In the twentieth century the notion of a ‘historic succession’ of bishops eventually appeared in official documents, whereas earlier statements had been insisting on the ‘historic episcopate’, but open to an understanding in the sense of ‘apostolic succession’ or a divinely instituted or sanctioned, or simply ancient form of government (episcopacy as esse, plene esse or bene esse of church). The eventual adoption of the notion of succession, however, the crucial characteristic of the esse model, meant a ‘theologization’ of Anglican ecclesiology in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with a distinct ‘catholic’ character, which explains the refusal to agree on interchangeability of ministers with ‘Protestant’ churches, now on theological grounds.

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This thesis is an examination of the eucharistic doctrine of ten Scottish theological writers in the tradition of Scottish Episcopacy; five from the seventeenth century, two from the eighteenth century, and three from the nineteenth century. The doctrine espoused by each one throughout the stated period, 1620–1875, is found to agree with the other writers considered herein, because each writer turned to many of the same Church Fathers as the source of his doctrine and his interpretation of Holy Scripture. The argument of this thesis is that all of the writers, rejecting the Tridentine, Lutheran, Bezan-Calvinist, and Zwinglian definitions of the Eucharist, maintained a material sacrifice in the Eucharist, which is an offering to God the Father of bread and wine as the propitiatory memorial of Christ’s death on the Cross, commanded by Christ himself at the Last Supper. The sacrifice is propitiatory because it is the means of representing the one sacrifice of Christ on the Cross to God the Father, thereby pleading the benefits of the Cross for the communicants. The bread and wine do not change substance, but become effectively the body and blood of Christ. Three of the ten writers produced eucharistic rites, one in the seventeenth century, and two in the eighteenth century. It is argued that each of these rites is expressive of the Eucharist as being a commemorative and representative sacrifice. Each rite explicitly offers bread and wine to the Father, invokes the Holy Spirit’s action over the elements, and prays that by receiving the consecrated bread and wine as the body and blood of Christ, the communicants will receive the forgiveness of sins, the continuing grace of the Holy Spirit, and eternal life.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-04-24T12:28:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Mariane de Almeida Silva.pdf: 1085880 bytes, checksum: bae4fadc0ee60d2abaa3ab662306f514 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-24T12:28:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mariane de Almeida Silva.pdf: 1085880 bytes, checksum: bae4fadc0ee60d2abaa3ab662306f514 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-12 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Pope Francis has been surprising the world since his arrival at the Vatican's most important balcony on March 13, 2013, when he was elected Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church. There, already in those brief minutes of his appearance, he draws attention by his gestures, by the way of his speaking, actig and mainly, by the way of being close to people. Still on that memorable day, Francis points to an way that, although not explicitly, becomes central in his ministry: Collegiality. This is noticeable at the moment when he calls himself bishop of Rome and calls the cardinals of brothers. Francis's words point to Collegiality. However, only a deeper inquiry is able to discover whether, in fact, Francis is a pope who lives the collegial spirit in his family and ministerial base. The present dissertation sought to know the theoretical and theological bases of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the ecclesiological paths covered by him, regarding Collegiality. This work had, among other things, the intention of discovering if the experiences of Jorge Mario Bergoglio before the election contributed to the collegial tone present in the documents of Francis. For this, the research sought to show the roots of Collegiality present not only in the moment of the Second Vatican Council, but also the aspects of its reception in the different continents, particulary in Latin American soil, of which Bergoglio is a beloved son. It was too important to know the biographical-existential roots of the future archbishop of Buenos Aires. Recognizing such aspects of Bergoglio, it will be easier to discover who, in fact, is Francis and what his thoughts are for the Church and her mission / O papa Francisco vem surpreendendo o mundo desde sua chegada à sacada mais importante do Vaticano naquele 13 de março de 2013, quando fora eleito Sumo Pontífice da Igreja Católica. Ali, já naqueles breves minutos de sua aparição, chama a atenção seja pelos gestos, pela maneira de falar e agir e, principalmente, pela maneira de se fazer próximo às pessoas. Ainda naquele dia memorável, Francisco aponta para um eixo que, embora não explicitamente, passa a ser central em seu ministério: a Colegialidade. Isso é perceptível já no momento em que ele se denomina como bispo de Roma e chama os cardeais de irmãos. As palavras de Francisco apontam para a Colegialidade. Entretanto, somente uma averiguação mais profunda é capaz de descobrir se, de fato, Francisco é um papa que vive o espírito colegial desde sua base familiar e ministerial. A presente dissertação buscou conhecer as bases teóricas e teológicas de Jorge Mario Bergoglio, os caminhos eclesiológicos percorridos por ele, no que tange a Colegialidade. Esse trabalho teve, dentre outras coisas, o intuito de descobrir se as experiências de Jorge Mario Bergoglio anteriores à eleição contribuíram para a tônica colegial presente nos documentos de Francisco. Para tanto a pesquisa procurou mostrar as raízes da Colegialidade presentes não só no momento do Concílio Vaticano II, como os aspectos de sua recepção nos diferentes continentes, particularmente em solo latino-americano, do qual Bergoglio é um dileto filho. Demasiado importante se mostrou o conhecimento das raízes biográfico-existenciais do futuro arcebispo de Buenos Aires. Reconhecendo tais aspectos de Bergoglio, com mais facilidade se descobrirá quem, de fato é Francisco e quais são seus pensamentos para a Igreja e sua missão

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For at least the past two decades, international Anglicanism has been gripped by a crisis of identity: what is to be the dynamic between autonomy and interdependence? Where is authority to be located? How might the local relate to the international? How are the variously diverse national churches to be held together 'in communion'? These questions have prompted an explosion of interest in Anglican ecclesiology within both the church and academy, with particular emphasis exploring the nature of episcopacy, synodical government, liturgy and belief, and common principles of canon law. However, one aspect of Anglican ecclesiology which has received little attention is the place of provincial polity and metropolitical authority across the Communion. Yet, this is a critical area of concern for Anglican ecclesiology as it directly addresses questions of authority, interdependence and catholicity. However, since at least the twentieth century, provincial polity has largely been eclipsed by, and confused with, the emergence of a dominant 'national church' polity. This confusion has become so prevalent that the word 'province' itself is used interchangeably and imprecisely to mean both an ecclesial province in its strict sense and one of the 39 'member- churches' which formally constitute the Anglican Communion, with a handful of 'extra-provincial' exceptions. The purpose of this research project is to untangle this confusion and to give a thorough account of the development of provincial polity and metropolitical authority within the Communion, tracing the historical origins of the contemporary status quo. The scope of this task is not in any way intended to be a comprehensive history of the emergence of international Anglicanism, but rather to narrowly chart the development of this particular unit of ecclesial polity, the province, through this broader narrative. The historical work of Part One in itself represents an important new contribution to Anglican Studies; however, the project aims to go further in Parts Two and Three to identify from this context key questions concerning the problems facing contemporary Anglican polity as the basis for further theological and ecclesiological reflection. Part Two examines how provincial polity has given way to an assumption of the 'national church' as the building block of the Communion. To what extent is it consonant with Anglican tradition? How is it problematic? What tensions exist with a more traditional understanding of the province? How might all this relate to wider political understandings and critiques of the 'nation- state' in an increasingly globalised world? Along with the emergence of a 'national church' ecclesiology, so too has the role of the 'Primates' been magnified. Part Three charts this development, culminating in a critique of the recent 2016 Primates' Meeting. What is the nature of primacy within Anglicanism and how does it relate to metropolitical authority? What is the right balance of honour and authority as it relates to primacy? How do Anglican understandings of primacy correspond to those of the Roman and Orthodox Communions? Finally, Part Four attempts to give some concrete focus to the preceding discussion through the illustrative example of the Anglican Church of Australia, which is frequently cited as being analogous to the Communion in having a loose federal system and resolutely autonomous dioceses. The prevalence of this 'diocesanism' has recently been criticised by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. However, there has been a recent revival of provincial action within the Province of Victoria in response to these issues which will be evaluated to discern what the Australian example might offer toward a theologically robust and credible ecclesiology for Anglicanism into the twenty-first century.

Die Dissertation stellt erstmals die episkopale Memoria in England von 1200 bis 1550 im Zusammenhang dar. Das christliche, rituelle Totengedenken, das in der heutigen Forschung mit den Begriffen des Memorial- und Stiftungswesens beschrieben wird, sorgte in diesem Zeitraum für gesellschaftliche Dynamik. In England war die soziale Gruppe der Bischöfe einer der bedeutendsten Träger jener Gedächtniskultur, die auf der Vorstellung beruhte, dass die Toten und ihre im Fegefeuer leidenden Seelen in der Welt gegenwärtig blieben. In einem System gegenseitiger Hilfestellungen hofften die Lebenden und die Toten bis zum Jüngsten Gericht das Seelenheil zu erlangen. Dabei sollten ihr gesellschaftlicher Status und ihre eingenommenen, sozialen Rollen im Tod beibehalten werden. Religiöse Gründe und Repräsentationsstreben bestimmten alle Formen episkopalen Totengedenkens. Die Variabilität bischöflicher Memoria, die sich in Gegenständen und Ritualen äußerte, ist so anhand der englischen Beispiele vorher nicht behandelt worden. Jeder Aspekt wird als Baustein für das erst in seiner Gesamtheit voll wirksame Totengedächtnis verstanden. Fehlende Bausteine oder isolierende Betrachtungen führen zu verzerrter Wahrnehmung. Von zentraler Bedeutung sind hier dennoch die Grabmäler und ihre Typologie. Sie werden vor dem Hintergrund von Auftraggeberanforderungen, funktionalen Aspekten sowie künstlerischen, orts- und zeitspezifischen Optionen der Handwerker behandelt. Formen und Funktionen der Grabmäler, Liturgien, außerliturgischen Rituale, Bau- und Kunstwerke bedingten und durchdrangen sich gegenseitig. Aus dem Anspruch auf ein angemessenes Totengedenken ergaben sich weitreichende soziale Folgen und ein reiches Erbe an Objekten und Bauwerken. Die vorliegende Arbeit verschafft Einsichten in die Phänomene episkopaler Memoria in England, indem sie gegenseitige Kommentierungen und Wechselwirkungen aufzeigt und sich dafür kunst-, glaubens- und sozialgeschichtlich relevanter Quellen bedient. / The dissertation is presenting a unique as well as coherent treatment of the topic of episcopal memorialization in England from 1200 to 1550. The English episcopacy was of substantial importance for furthering the promotion of what is now called the medieval system of foundation and commemoration. During the period concerned, it was believed that the dead and their suffering souls would stay alive in purgatory and were thought to be still present and spiritually connected to the living. By providing mutual support, people hoped to gain salvation on Last Judgement. Social status and role gained in life were to be retained after death and also had to be visually represented in tombs and rituals. Religious reasons and criteria of representation dominated all kinds of episcopal commemoration. Variability of memorialization, expressed in objects and rituals, was yet to be documented with English episcopal monuments and features. The commemoration of one single bishop consisted of many individual aspects. Hence, missing aspects and isolated interpretations are causing misunderstandings and distorted views. Forms and functions of tombs, liturgies, non-liturgical rituals, buildings and artworks influenced each other and were substantially linked. The typology of bishop’s tombs explains which options craftsmen and clients had in certain ages and under certain conditions. Patrons made demands for the look of the monuments. On the other hand, craftsmen created a personal portfolio of what they could offer to potential customers. Bishop’s tombs were also orchestrated with theatrical effects. Aspiration of appropriate commemoration led to wide-ranging social implications and a rich inheritance of objects and building constructions. This dissertation provides annotations and interrelations within the phenomenon of memorialization by considering various areas of history, like the history of art, faith and society.