Ntambang, Roland (2024) Fostering Greater Conversion for Active Liturgical Participation: Exploring the Thought of Bernard Lonergan. PhD thesis, St. Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth.

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Abstract

The challenge before contemporary liturgical and sacramental theologians is to findnew means of explaining the notion of sacramental ef icacy, which would be suf icient to sustain the Christian faith and enhance worship in our contemporary society. This study argues that the complexities of the human person in today’s society have made the traditional categories and framework (like Thomas Aquinas’ theory of sanctifying grace) used to express the human person’s experience of God inadequate to enhance worship in contemporary times. It presents Bernard Lonergan’s approach as a more sustainable model that better elaborates on the position of Thomas Aquinas and The Rites of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA). Lonergan attempts to understand the idea of grace offered in the sacraments by beginning with human experiences. Head vocates for a liturgical and sacramental theology that enables the human person to encounter God. For him, reflection on conversion is the foundation for that new theology.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Keywords:	Fostering Greater Conversion; Active Liturgical Participation; Exploring; Thought; Bernard Lonergan;
Academic Unit:	St Patrick's College, Maynooth > Faculty of Theology
Item ID:	19211
Depositing User:	IR eTheses
Date Deposited:	21 Nov 2024 14:38
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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