Andrew Meszaros

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PhD Title

From the Development of Dogma to Contextual Historical Consciousness: J.H. Newman and Yves Congar on the Role of History in the Determination of the Christian Tradition of Faith

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This project is intended to provide a critical and comparative study of the parallels and differences between Newman#s and Congar#s views on the way in which the Christian community seeks to identify and articulate the content of its tradition of faith. More specifically, the project will research the relationship between Newman#s nineteenth-century Anglican-Catholic approach to the #historical# character of the Christian tradition of Faith and the twentieth-century approach developed by the ecumenically-minded Catholic Congar. In doing so, light will be shed on, among other important topics, the way in which shifting historical contexts affect both the content and the mediation of tradition. The role of the Church in the emergence of the Christian doctrinal tradition, according to Newman and Congar, will also be illuminated. Finally, the nature of Congar's appropriation of Newman's thought will illustrate a very specific way in which the latter enjoyed influence at the Second Vatican Council and in twentieth-century theology, more generally.

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Publications

"Isaac Watts: A Universal Hymn Writer" The Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland Bulletin. Vol. 18 No.11, July 2008.