After the Original Sin, man was left in a condition of alienation from God. Whereas before the sin, he enjoyed infused knowledge in his intellect, loving obedience in his will, spontaneous virtue in his emotions, and no sickness or death in the body; after the fall, he is punished with ignorance in the intellect, malice […]
Entries Tagged as 'Sacred Scripture and Tradition: Sources of Revelation'
The Old Law as a Preparation for the New
December 18th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Sacred Scripture and Tradition: Sources of Revelation · Grace
The Four Senses of Scripture
December 11th, 2007 · No Comments
There are two basic senses of Holy Scripture: the literal (or historical) and the spiritual. The spiritual sense is further divided into the allegorical, the tropological (or moral), and the anagogical.
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The Council of Nicæa was Catholic
November 5th, 2007 · 3 Comments
The headline of this posting may strike readers as comical. It is, of course, a fact. It seems so obvious as to be like asserting that the New England Patriots are a football team. However, there are Protestant polemicists who attempt to detract from Nicæa’s Romishness by the use of various ahistorical machinations.
I was going […]
Tags: Sacred Scripture and Tradition: Sources of Revelation · Apologetics · Church History
Imitating Christ’s Humility: Philippians 2
November 3rd, 2007 · No Comments
The Challoner edition of the Douay-Rheims Bible gives a good description of Philippians 2 at the head of the chapter: “He recommends them to unity and humility, and to work out their salvation with fear and trembling.” In broad overview, what St. Paul delivers in this chapter one of his many exhortations to unity, but […]
Tags: Sacred Scripture and Tradition: Sources of Revelation · Spiritual Theology · Christology
Vatican II: Some Clarity, Please
October 18th, 2007 · 3 Comments
Recently, I witnessed a very animated discussion between a Scripture scholar and a religion teacher. The subject of the disputation was Biblical inerrancy. The scholar is a highly intelligent man, but a liberal. (In fairness to him, I must say that he avoids the more ridiculous ideas of biblical scholars, such as the fantastic “Q […]
Tags: Sacred Scripture and Tradition: Sources of Revelation · Modernism · Vatican II · Magisterium · Ecclesiology
Biblical Inerrancy
August 23rd, 2007 · 1 Comment
Most of the postings on this blog are academic papers I wrote. This one on Biblical inerrancy was to summarize, in three pages, “the traditional doctrine of the inerrancy of Scripture and how the Catholic Church since Vatican II understands this doctrine.” I wanted to read a controversial passage in Dei Verbum using the “hermeneutic […]
