Aportes de la relación esperanza–ritualidad en el cristianismo primitivo para el fortalecimiento de la vida ritual cristiana hoy.

Abstract

This thesis approaches the current situation of the celebratory and ritual life in the catholic Christianity, proposing in the light of the ritual experience and the bond of this with the present hope in the primitive Christianity, to identify some contributions that allow the strengthening of ritual Christian life nowadays. For this work we turn to the anthropological, historical, liturgical and apologetic study of rites in general and of Christian rites in particular, with the aim of knowing the context, origin and ritual development of primitive Christianity. Then we turn to an analysis of the evolution of the understanding of hope in the Christians of the first three centuries of our era, to identify how they saw and understood hope, and in a special the way how it is linked to their daily life. From all this, the relationship between hope and rite in Christian antiquity is identified and the state of this same relationship is observed in the Church of today, to determine the changes presented and extract contributions from primitive Christianity that contribute to the strengthening of the current Christian ritual life