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| Actio Divina : The Marian Mystery of the Church in the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI)
ISBN: 9781800793989
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
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Subjects: Religion;
This book is a study of a significant nexus in contemporary Catholic thought that has not had the attention that it deserves and is peculiarly relevant to the turbulent conditions of the Modern Church, especially in relation to Vatican II. It is a portrayal of Ratzinger's discerning grasp of Vatican II Mariology and ecclesiology as a peritus of note during the Council's sessions. The author lucidly sets out Ratzinger's understanding of Marian theology as key to the Church's self-understanding, which was the primary burden of Vatican II and still of the contemporary Church. Faithful to his hermeneutic, one of continuity in reform, the book casts Ratzinger's appraisal of the Mary-Church relation as receptive to a new shift in the decision not to have a separate Council document on Mary because Mary is already the full realisation of the Church. One of the book's strikingly novel contributions is its depiction of the Marian dimensions to the Church's liturgy and missionary evangelization. The author shows that Ratzinger's thought here is both intricate and coherent and that it discloses a profoundly unifying direction in the Council as a whole, that has not yet been fully understood.
Fr Martin Onuoha, also the author of Mary, Daughter Zion: An Introduction to the Mariology of Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI), is a theology lecturer and examiner to the B. Div. and Postgraduate students at Maryvale Institute, Birmingham, UK. Faculté Nôtre-Dame, Paris, who oversees Maryvale's Pontifical status, appointed him permanent faculty and a member of the HIRS Council in 2014. He holds a doctorate and a Licence in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, with dissertations on the Writings of Joseph Ratzinger, both of which were awarded summa cum laude. He is a member of the Theological Commission of the International Marian Association, of the Catholic Theological Society of America, and of the Catholic Theological Association of Nigeria. In addition to his lecturing duties, he is currently the parish priest of the parishes of Our Lady and the Apostles, St Ambrose, and St Vincent, Stockport, while providing priestchaplaincy support for Aquinas College, St James' Catholic High School, and the Nigeria-African chaplaincy, Liverpool. He is a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Ahiara, Mbaise, in Imo State, Nigeria. |
