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Theories of doctrinal development in the Catholic church / Michael Seewald, University of Muenster ; translated by David West.

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"The contemporary Catholic Church finds itself in deep crisis as it questions which elements are essential to the Catholic faith, and which can be changed. Bringing a longue durée perspective to this issue, Michael Seewald historicizes the problem and investigates how theologians of the past a...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Seewald, Michael, 1987- (Author)
Other Authors: West, David (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Subjects:
Catholic Church > Doctrines.
Catholic Church.
Theology, Doctrinal.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Title page
  • Copyright information
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: What Is This Book About?
  • 1 Defining Dogma and Development
  • 1.1 What Is Meant by Dogma?
  • 1.1.1 The Prehistory of the Concept
  • 1.1.2 The 'Modern' Concept Emerges
  • 1.1.3 Pius IX: Innovation from Anti-innovation Intentions
  • 1.1.4 The Concept of Dogma in the Catholic Church Today
  • 1.2 What Is Meant by Development?
  • 1.2.1 A First Attempt at a Definition
  • 1.2.2 Development of Dogma as a Response to the History of Dogma
  • 1.2.3 Approaches in the Early Nineteenth Century
  • 1.2.4 Theology in the Shadow of Charles Darwin
  • 2 The Bible: Both Product and Yardstick of Doctrinal Development
  • 2.1 Scripture: Why Only Now?
  • 2.2 The Bible as Product of Development
  • 2.2.1 Christ: Found in the Text and Confirming the Text?
  • 2.2.2 From the Canon of Truth to the New Testament Canon
  • 2.3 The Bible as Yardstick of Development
  • 2.3.1 Jesus Christ in the 'Form of God' and 'Form of Servant'
  • 2.3.2 'Guard What Has Been Entrusted to You' (1 Timothy 6:20)
  • 2.3.3 Paraclete and Spirit: Teacher of All Truth
  • 3 How the Early Church Reflected on Doctrinal Continuity and Change
  • 3.1 A First Look at the Period
  • 3.2 Natural Growth, Divine Pedagogy and Human Language
  • 3.3 'Everywhere, Always, By All': The Rule Laid Down by Vincent of Lérins
  • 3.3.1 The Criteria of the Vincentian Canon and the Problems with These Criteria
  • 3.3.2 Appropriating, Criticizing and Saving the Honour of Vincent
  • 4 Discussions in the Middle Ages on Changes to the Unchanging Faith
  • 4.1 'Nothing New Can Be Created Anymore'?
  • 4.2 Deductive Reasoning and Doctrinal Development in the Filioque Controversy
  • 4.3 Implicit Faith, Explicit Faith and 'Blind Faith'
  • 4.4 Advances in Knowledge, and Authority: Thomas Aquinas
  • 4.5 The Reformation: Did Something Happen There?
  • 5 Theories of Doctrinal Development in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
  • 5.1 The Tübingen School: Romantic Spirit and Idealistic System-Formation
  • 5.1.1 Johann Sebastian Drey: '. . . There Is Nothing to Fear From the Growth of Christian Dogmas'
  • 5.1.2 Johann Adam Möhler: Dead Concepts and Divine Life
  • 5.2 Newman: 'To Live Is to Change, and to Be Perfect Is to Have Changed Often'
  • 5.3 The Issue of Dogmatic Development in Neo-Scholasticism
  • 5.3.1 Tradition: Divine Gift and Human Finiteness
  • 5.3.2 Logic and Advances in Dogma
  • 5.4 Culmination and (Provisional) End of Theories of Development: The Crisis of Modernism
  • 6 The Twentieth Century: From Anti-Modernism to the Second Vatican Council
  • 6.1 Mary, the Pope and a 'Neo-Modernism' in the Church?
  • 6.2 Karl Rahner: The Stasis of Literal Revelation and the Dynamics of Self-Revelation
  • 6.3 Joseph Ratzinger: A Theorist of Continuity?
  • 6.4 Walter Kasper: Dogma as a Service of Love to the Common Faith

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