McCaughey, Mary
(2005)
Mary as Ecclesial Person:
The Key to Modernity's Quest for Personhood.
Other thesis, Pontifical University, St Patrick's College, Maynooth.
Abstract
In this thesis I propose to look at how Mary is the model of the human person defined
as being-in-relation, made for communion. Modernity prioritises the values of
freedom, independence and rationality, yet what it describes is less personhood than
dualistic individuality. It has recognised relationality yet either doubts the essence of
the other as “real” or has prioritised collectivity to such a degree that persons as
unique entities have become lost. Modernity rejects Christianity as oppressive of
freedom and human fulfilment, yet the values modernity seeks already exist in
Christianity in the form of an authentic freedom found in relation to God and others.
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