The Christology of Vatican II in relation to Article 8 of "Dei Verbum".
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Description: The starting point for the dissertation is a statement found in Article 8 of the Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (Dei Verbum) that "the Church, in its doctrine, life and worship, perpetuates and transmits to all generations everything that it is and everything that it believes." This phrase appears in the second chapter of Dei Verbum concerning the transmission of divine revelation. Theological commentators have explained that this claim refers to the entire content of the Christian mystery which is transmitted at all times in the Church in three clear ways: its doctrine, life and worship. In other words, the Church, in its doctrine, life and liturgy hands on, in every age, the mystery of God, centered in Christ. My thesis statement is that there is an operative Christology which emerges in the Council texts when one reads them in relationship to this important claim in Article 8 of Dei Verbum.The dissertation proceeds in five chapters: the first chapter is a thorough historical-critical study of this phrase; the second, third and fourth chapters are an examination of the Christology of the three conciliar Constitutions of the Council---Lumen Gentium representing "doctrine",  Gaudium et Spes representing "life" and Sacrosanctum Concilium representing "worship." In the final chapter, I summarize my discoveries, noting the preeminent Christological foundation of Vatican II and arguing that scholars after the Council, in their approach to theology, are responsible for attending to all three "ways" in order to grasp the fuller Christian mystery being transmitted.
Notes: Adviser: Mary Ellen Sheehan.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of St. Michael's College, 2004.

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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-12, Section: A, page: 4600.