Graduate Student, History
College of Arts and Social Sciences
Thesis Title: An Irish apostle: articulating and actualizing apostolicity in the early Irish Church.
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Dr. Damian Bracken
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About
This thesis will propose that the seventh-century Lives of Brigit and Patrick by Cogitosus and Muirchú display a sophisticated awareness of apostolical ideology as the basis for Roman primacy. Moreover, it will suggest that these Lives were not written primarily to make primatial claims on behalf of their associated foundations, but to address serious and compromising flaws in their respective subjects' ecclesiology. Using elements of apostolical ideology to accomodate Brigit and Patrick within the structure of the Church in light of the Easter controversy, both writers attempted to prove the primacy of their foundations.
