Elements of the Prayer of St. Benedict as a foundation for an epistemology of faith
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Authors
Bateman, Terence James
Issue Date
2005-08
Type
Dissertation
Language
en
Keywords
Prayer of St. Benedict , Faith , Epistemology , Wisdom and connaturality , Meta-paradigm , Method in theology , Experiential paradigm , Critical paradigm , Transcendental paradigm , Revelation , Cognition/Cognitive , Church, academy and society , Evangelisation
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Abstract
A dynamic interpretation of the Prayer of St. Benedict provides a methodology for understanding and explicating Christian faith consistent with enduring elements in the theological tradition and meaningful to the contemporary milieu. Within the overarching structure of the Prayer as a meta-paradigm, are three subsidiary paradigms that describe characteristics of approaches to faith. The structure, content, and intention of the Prayer reveal these to be experiential, critical, and transcendental. Wisdom is asserted as integrating and orienting the discussion, which is a constructed on a Personalist foundation and is a postcritical reflection on faith. Faith is grounded in the affirmations and assumptions of faith, discerned in the enfolding appeals, and the supplications, a basis for an expository discourse on the dimensions of faith.
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Bateman, Terence James (2005) Elements of the Prayer of St. Benedict as a foundation for an epistemology of faith, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2270>