The musings and meandering thoughts of a crotchety old man as he observes life in the world and in a small, rural town in South East Nebraska. My Pledge-Nulla dies sine linea-Not a day with out a line.
Stand Alone Pages on 'Musings of an Old Curmudgeon'
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24 November 2019
Word of the Day: Theological Notes
THEOLOGICAL NOTES. Degrees of certainty in the acceptance of religious
doctrine. In theology several grades of certitude are recognized. the highest
degree of certitude is attached to immediately revealed truths. They are to
be believed with divine faith (fides divina) and if they are also defined
by the Church, then with defined divine faith (fides divina definita).
If the Church defines a doctrine that is not immediately revealed, it is to
be believed with ecclesiastical faith (fides ecclesiastica). A doctrine
that theologians generally regard as a truth of revelation, but that has not
been finally promulgated by the Church, is said to be proximate to faith (proxima
fidei), and if such a truth is guaranteed as the logical conclusion from
a revealed doctrine, it is called theologically certain (theologice certa).
Below this level are many graces of certainty, ranging from common teaching
(sententia communis), when Catholic theologians responsive to the Church's
authority agree on some position, to tolerated opinions that are only weakly
founded but are tolerated by the Church.
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