'FLEAT PRO TE MATER ECCLESIA': IMAGES OF THE CHURCH IN AMBROSE'S TREATISE 'DE PAENITENTIA'
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11260%2F22%3A10456811" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11260/22:10456811 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=yCUo~rJcTo" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=yCUo~rJcTo</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23363398.2022.18" target="_blank" >10.14712/23363398.2022.18</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
'FLEAT PRO TE MATER ECCLESIA': IMAGES OF THE CHURCH IN AMBROSE'S TREATISE 'DE PAENITENTIA'
Original language description
The study is focused on several aspects present in Ambrose's treatise De paenitentia, namely his ecclesiology with respect to the theology and practice of penance. The primary purpose of De paenitentia was the confrontation with the heresy of Ambrose's time when so-called Novatians denied the possibility of penance and absolution for the Christians who committed a serious crime after baptism. Ambrose's reaction is not only the targeted polemic with this rigorism, but in his treatise, he further develops the structured theology of penance. After a brief historical summary of the roots of Novatian heresy as a reaction to the problem with the lapsi who denied the faith during Decius' persecution, this paper focuses on Ambrose's arguments in favour of Church as a welcoming place even for sinners. Ambrose uses several biblical images, such as the Good Samaritan, Peter the Apostle, Lazarus, and female figures from the Gospels, to show the value and importance of penance and the role of the Church, who got from Christ the power to 'bind and loose'. Despite the different practice of penance in the early church, Ambrose's exegesis and image of the Church as the inn where everybody can be welcomed and cured, no matter in which condition he or she is coming, can serve as an inspiration also for today's discussion about the character of the Church.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60303 - Theology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Theologica
ISSN
1804-5588
e-ISSN
2336-3398
Volume of the periodical
12
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
63-81
UT code for WoS article
000891616400005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85143288340