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The Totus Christus in Augustine’s Enarrationes in Psalmos: Christian Prayer and Evangelical Life as a Member of the Body

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  • The Totus Christus in Augustine’s Enarrationes in Psalmos: Christian Prayer and Evangelical Life as a Member of the Body
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  • 05/29/2024
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  • As Augustine interprets the text of the Psalter in the collection of homilies and written texts known as the Enarrationes in Psalmos, he remains ever aware of the reality of the relationship between Christ and the Church. For Augustine, Christ and the Church are one, the totus Christus: head and body, bridegroom and bride. He follows the patristic practice of interpreting the words of the Psalms as the voice of Christ, and therefore as the voice of the Church united to her head. These reflections on the unity of the Church aid Augustine in his preaching against the heresy of Donatism. When preaching on the unity of voice enjoyed in the totus Christus, Augustine speaks of the mystery of prayer, for which Christ gifts the Christian with his own filial relationship to the Father. Christ prays when the Christian prays because every Christian is a member of the totus Christus. Furthermore, Christ abides in his members in every action of their lives such that when they act, Christ acts. Christ, therefore, not only prays in his members, but loves in them, suffers in them, evangelizes in them, and is present to the world in them. This unity of the totus Christus is ever present and understood in Augustine’s interpretations of the Psalms.
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  • McGrath, Daniel. "The Totus Christus in Augustine’s Enarrationes in Psalmos: Christian Prayer and Evangelical Life as a Member of the Body." MA thesis, Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, 2023.
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