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● CATHOLIC RITE: Roman Catholic
● THEOLOGY PROPER (PATEROLOGY): God is the First Cause ; Self-existent and Self-determined, Personal (He is the cause of Personality) and Infinite (in Latin "immensus," without measure.) ; One and Indivisible ; Eternal and Immutable.
● CHRISTOLOGY: Following the holy Fathers, we unanimously teach and confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: the same perfect in divinity and perfect in humanity, the same truly God and truly man, composed of rational soul and body; consubstantial with the Father as to his divinity and consubstantial with us as to his humanity; "like us in all things but sin." (CCC 467)
● PNEUMATOLOGY: The Holy Spirit is the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity. Though really distinct, Person, from the Father and the Son, He is consubstantial with Them; being God like Them, He possesses with Them one and the same Divine "Essence" or "Nature." He proceeds, not by way of generation, but by way of spiration, from the Father and the Son together, as from a single principle.
● EPISTEMOLOGY: What can man know as rational animal? Man is a substance, corporeal, living, sentient, and rational. Man is a "living soul" and fashioned to the "image of God" by the inspiration of the "breath of life", which makes man a man and differentiates him from the brute and makes him self-aware and God-aware.
● BIBLIOLOGY: All Scripture is inspired by God and is defined as (a) "These books are held by the Church as sacred and canonical, not as having been composed by merely human labour and afterwards approved by her authority, nor merely because they contain revelation without error, but because, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God for their author, and have been transmitted to the Church as such." (Concil. Vatic., Sess. III, const. dogm, de Fide, cap. ii, in Denz., 1787). (b) "The Holy Spirit Himself, by His supernatural power, stirred up and impelled the Biblical writers to write, and assisted them while writing in such a manner that they conceived in their minds exactly, and determined to commit to writing faithfully, and render in exact language, with infallible truth, all that God commanded and nothing else; without that, God would not be the author of Scripture in its entirety" (Encycl. Provid. Deus, in Dena., 1952). The Sacred Scriptures cannot interpret themselves.
● HERMENEUTICS: Since the Bible is God's own book, its study must be begun and prosecuted with a spirit of reverence and prayer. The Fathers insist on this need in many passages. St. Athanasius calls the Scriptures the fountain that quenches our thirst for justice and supplies us with the doctrine of piety (Ep. fest. xxxix); St. Augustine (Reply to Faustus XIII.18) wishes them to be read for a memorial of our faith, for the consolation of our hope, and for an exhortation to charity; Origen (Ep. ad Gregor. Neocæs., c. iii) considers pious prayer as the most essential means for the understanding of the Divine Scriptures; but he wishes to see humility joined with prayer; St. Jerome (In Mich., I, x) agrees with St. Augustine (De doctr. christ., III, xxxvii) in regarding prayer as the principal and most necessary aid for the understanding of the Scriptures. We might add the words of other patristic writers, if the alleged references were not clear and explicit enough to remove all doubt on the subject.
● PHILOSOPHY: Platos "Forms"; neo-Platonism.
● SOTERIOLOGY: Dogmatic Theology. Considered etymologically, theology (Gr. Theologia, i.e. peri Theou logos) means objectively the science treating of God, subjectively, the scientific knowledge of God and Divine things. If defined as the science concerning God (doctrina de Deo), the name of theology applies as well to the philosophical knowledge of God, which is cast into scientific form in natural theology or theodicy. However, unless theodicy is free from errors, it cannot lay claim to the name of theology.
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xMercuryIsRisingx said:
@kolkrabe19
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