Sisters of the Holy Cross, Menzingen 1844-1863

A Theological Study in Identity and Memory of a Contested Founding Event

Mary Finbarr Coffey

• Publisher: LIT Verlag
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9783643964687
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

While building on a comprehensive reading of available archival sources in the Menzingen Religious Institute, this work provides a greater understanding of the possibilities and the difficulties of a return \textit{ad fontes} in the Church and in religious life. It discloses that a struggle for a founding inspiration is a struggle for the memory. The theoretical framework which has been constructed from scriptural sources in this study, is likely to be of use in a theological interpretation of any Christian founding event. Sr. M. Finbarr Coffey is a teacher in Philosophy and Ethics at the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, London. She is also the author of: The Question of Relativism: an Essay in Epistemology. New Millennium, London, 2016.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Content
• Chapter One. Radical Change: Social Context of the Menzingen Foundation
• Chapter Two. The Menzingen Foundation 1844–1863: A Contested Identity
• Chapter Three. The Construction of Tradition – the Menzingen Institute 1863–1963
• Chapter Four. Post-Vatican II Construction of Tradition – the Menzingen Institute 1965–1995
• Chapter Five. Memory and Identity
• Chapter Six. A Theological Understanding of Founding Events
• Chapter Seven. Identity and Memory – the Menzingen Founding Event: A Theological Interpretation
• Chapter Eight. Menzingen, Vatican II and its Mission Today
• Epilogue
• Appendices
• Select Bibliography