Church as Hermeneutical Community and the Place of Embodied Faith in Joseph Ratzinger and Lewis S. Mudge

Mary McCaughey was born in Dublin in 1972. She graduated with a degree in Business and Social Studies from Trinity College Dublin in 1993 and pursued postgraduate studies in Education and Equality Studies at University College Dublin and further studies in Theology. She graduated with a Doctorate in Divinity from St Patrick’s College, Maynooth in 2012. She is a lecturer in Systematic Theology at the Pontifical University, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth. Her research interests include Revelation and Faith, Ecclesiology and Mariology.

• Contents: The Church as a Hermeneutical Community and the Place of Embodied Faith in Contemporary Theological Literature – Tracing a Background to the Understanding of the Church as a Hermeneutical Community: Biblical, Philosophical and Theological Perspectives – Lewis S. Mudge on the Church as Hermeneutical Community – Lewis S. Mudge on Embodied Faith – Joseph Ratzinger on the Church as a Hermeneutical Community – Joseph Ratzinger on Embodied Faith – The Church as a Hermeneutical Community and the Place of Embodied Faith: Joseph Ratzinger and Lewis S. Mudge in Dialogue – Embodied Faith and the Church as a Hermeneutical Community Interpreting Revelation: Sacramental and Existential Signs of Faith in Context.

"[...] McCaughey's The Church as Hermeneutical Community and the Place of Embodied Faith in Joseph Ratzinger and Lewis S. Mudge offers illuminating and well assembled answers to complex problems [...]." (Anales Theologici, 30/I 2016)