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| Â | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Dogmatic Fact |
 | | Other theologians hold that the definitions of dogmatic facts, in the wider and stricter acceptation, are received, not by Divine faith, but by ecclesiastical faith, which some call mediate Divine faith. | | | Some theologians hold that definitions of dogmatic facts, and especially of dogmatic facts in the wider acceptation of the term, are believed by Divine faith. | | | Theologians are unanimous in teaching that the Church, or the pope, is infallible, not only in defining what is formally contained in Divine revelation, but also in defining virtually revealed truths, or generally in all definitions and condemnations which are necessary for safe-guarding the body of revealed truth. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05092a.htm
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| Â | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Dogma |
| | Dogmatic definitions would be arbitrary if there were no Divinely instituted infallible teaching office in the Church; but if, as Catholics maintain, God has established in His Church an infallible office, dogmatic definitions cannot be considered arbitrary. | | | It will be sufficient to notice the following points, (1) the reasonableness of the definition of dogma; (2) the immutability of dogma; (3) the necessity for Church unity of belief in dogma (4) the inconveniences which are alleged to be associated with the definition of dogma. | | | There is considerable hostility, in modem times, to dogmatic religion when considered as a body of truths defined by the Church, and still more when considered as defined by the pope. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05089a.htm
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| Â | Nicene Creed and the Truth about the Trinity |
| | The councilor definition says that Jesus is true man. But if there are two natures in him, it is clear which will dominate. | | | In fact, if you take the record as it is and avoid reading back into it the dogmatic definitions of a later age, you cannot find what is traditionally regarded as orthodox Christianity in the Bible at all." -- For Christ's Sake. | | | The Trinitarian definitions arose as the result of long controversies in which these terms and others such as "essence" and "substance" were erroneously applied to God by some theologians." Dictionary of the Bible by John L. McKenzie, S.J. p. |
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http://www.sullivan-county.com/identity/trinity.htm
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| Â | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Infallibility |
| | In general, exemption or immunity from liability to error or failure; in particular in theological usage, the supernatural prerogative by which the Church of Christ is, by a special Divine assistance, preserved from liability to error in her definitive dogmatic teaching regarding matters of faith and morals. | | | In the Vatican definition infallibility (whether of fhe Church at large or of the pope) is affirmed only in regard to doctrines of faith or morals; but within the province of faith and morals its scope is not limited to doctrines that have been formally revealed. | | | For development in the Catholic sense does not mean that the Church ever changes her definitive teaching, but merely that as time goes on and human science advances, her teaching is more deeply analyzed, more fully comprehended, and more perfectly coordinated and explained in itself and in its bearings on other departments of knowledge. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07790a.htm
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| Â | Guest Perpective: Fr. Tissa BALASURIYA: Message of love gets sidetracked in dogma |
| | But the dogmatic definitions of the church, from 325 onwards, in Greco-Latin thought patterns were a source of division within the church itself. | | | This message has been neglected, sidetracked in the dogmatic definitions of the church. | | | When Christianity compromised with the Roman Empire and began to define its doctrines in Greco-Latin terminology and concepts, it tended to claim for its dogmatic definitions a universal validity for all humankind. |
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http://www.natcath.com/NCR_Online/archives/110698/110698k.htm
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| Â | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Theological Definition |
| | Arguments contained in conciliar definitions are proposed by the supreme teaching authority in the Church, they concern faith and morals, and they bind the Universal Church; yet they are not definitions, because they lack this fourth condition — they are not definitively proposed for the assent of the whole Church. | | | When the definition commands an irrevocable assent of Divine faith as well as of ecclesiastical faith, the defined dogma is said to be de fide in the technical sense of this phrase. | | | Leo addressed his famous dogmatic definition to Flavian, yet it was rightly considered as binding the Universal Church; and Pope Innocent sent his decree to the African Church alone, yet St. Augustine exclaimed: Causa finita est, utinam aliquando finiatur error! |
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| Â | Purgatory.ca :: Information: Research: Glossary |
| | Dogmatic definitions are but the authentic interpretation and declaration of the meaning of Divine revelation." (Taken from Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume V, "Dogma: IV Dogma and the Church", 1-4.) | | | Guided by the magesterium of the Church, the sensus fidelium knows how to discern and welcome in these revelations whatever constitutes an authentic call of Christ or his saints to the Church. | | | It is not their role to improve or complete Christ's definitive Revelation, but to help live more fully by it in a certain period of history. |
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http://www.purgatory.ca/res-glossary.php
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| Â | Pontifications » Is an infallible decree infallible if no one believes it? |
| | To these definitions the assent of the Church can never be wanting, on account of the activity of that same Holy Spirit, by which the whole flock of Christ is preserved and progresses in unity of faith. | | | And therefore his definitions, of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church, are justly styled irreformable, since they are pronounced with the assistance of the Holy Spirit, promised to him in blessed Peter, and therefore they need no approval of others, nor do they allow an appeal to any other judgment. | | | And this infallibility with which the Divine Redeemer willed His Church to be endowed in defining doctrine of faith and morals, extends as far as the deposit of Revelation extends, which must be religiously guarded and faithfully expounded. |
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http://pontifications.classicalanglican.net/index.php?p=189
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| Â | CCF Discussion Groups - Was Vatican 2 Infallible?? |
| | Doctrines definitively proposed by the Church on faith and morals which are necessary for faithfully keeping and expounding the deposit of faith, even if they have not been proposed by the Magisterium of the Church as formally revealed. | | | Such doctrine can be confirmed or reaffirmed by the Roman Pontiff, even without recourse to a solemn definition, by declaring explicitly that it belongs to the teaching of the ordinary and universal Magisterium as a truth that is I. divinely revealed or II. | | | <"The Supreme Pontiff, while not wishing to proceed to a dogmatic definition, intended to reaffirm that this doctrine is to be held definitively, since, founded on the written Word of God, constantly preserved and applied in the Tradition of the Church, it has been set forth infallibly by the ordinary and universal Magisterium. |
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http://www.catholic-forum.com/dcforum/tradition/283.html
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| Â | Pontifications » Authority |
| | Given the definitive irreversibilty of dogma, the Church trusts that by his Holy Spirit the risen Christ, who has promised to lead the Church into all truth, has protected the formulators of the dogma from defining a dogma that would lead the people of God into irretrievable error. | | | Given the definitive authority and irreformability of these dogmas within the life of the Church catholic, we must therefore believe that they are guaranteed by the Spirit. | | | If, for example, the decision of Nicea that Christ is “of one being with the Father” was false to the gospel, the gospel was thereby so perverted that there has been no church extant to undo the error. |
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http://pontifications.classicalanglican.net/index.php?cat=2
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| Â | LT43 - THE EX CATHEDRA STATUS OF THE ENCYCLICAL HUMANAE VITAE |
| | The dogma obliges all Catholics to believe by divine faith a rather broadly expressed point of revealed truth: that whatever is true about the Church's infallibility in defining doctrine of faith or morals must also be said of the Pope in regard to his personal definitions in that area. | | | He added that he greatly desired that at this Vatican Council it should be defined that the Church is infallible not only in dogmatic definitions, but also in dogmatic facts, in the canonization of saints, and the approbation of religious Orders. | | | The clear implication is that infallible definitions of the Popes can include, and have included in the past, points of doctrine necessary for guarding and expounding revealed truth, not only revealed truth itself. |
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http://www.rtforum.org/lt/lt43.html
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| Â | OUR LADY OF FATIMA |
| | One of the first and greatest bulwarks and defenses against apostasy is to have a firm grasp of and adherence to the dogmatic definitions of the Catholic Faith. | | | So you can see we need to recover the dogmatic definitions of the Catholic Church. | | | These blind leaders reason as follows: God is pleased with us because we are humble, because we are obedient, and God placed those men as Pope and Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith over us. |
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http://www.catholictradition.org/fatima13.htm
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| Â | Tower of David Critique of “The Necessity of Being Catholic,” by James Akin |
| | This is the very PURPOSE AND NATURE of a dogmatic definition: TO DEFINE for ALL time what the Church means and HOW we are to understand and believe it. | | | However, Pope Boniface VIII, protected by the Holy Spirit from error, infallibly used "omnino" in this definition, NOT any of the other words which James Akin wishes were used, as you will see. | | | In other words, there is no "meaning" distinct from the words of the formula, for this is the VERY POINT of a dogmatic definition -to make clear, to define what She does mean and believe. |
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http://www.geocities.com/adam_todm/Akin1.htm
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| Â | Newman Reader - Catholic Encyclopedia Essay |
| | Of course he accepted the dogmatic definitions; and in 1874 he defended the Church against Gladstone's charge that "Vaticanism" was equivalent to the latest fashions in religion (see his " Letter to the Duke of Norfolk ".). | | | He resisted in principle the notion that historical evidence could do away with the necessity of faith as regarded creeds and definitions. | | | His "Cathedra Sempiterna" rivals in fervour and excels in genuine rhetoric the passage with which de Maistre concluded his "Du Pape", which became a text for "ultramontane" apologetics. |
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| Â | Trent, Council of -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | 19th ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic church (1545–63), highly important for its sweeping decrees on self-reform and for its dogmatic definitions that clarified virtually every doctrine... | | | 19th ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic church (1545–63), highly important for its sweeping decrees on self-reform and for its dogmatic definitions that clarified virtually every doctrine contested by the Protestants. | | | The most important single event in that movement was almost certainly the Council of Trent, which met intermittently in 25 sessions between 1545 and 1563. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9073300
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| Â | Rhetorica: Press-Politics Journal: Current political definitions... |
| | Tapped takes a look at the definitions of "genocide" and "terrorist." Politics is a battle over the definitions of words. | | | Although, if they was in fact seeking money, then they would seem to fit the definition. | | | While there was speculation that the "snipers" may have been terrorists, I don't think that the right, in general, regarded him as such merely based on his actions alone. |
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http://rhetorica.net/archives/000391.html
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| Â | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Devotional Medals |
| | dogmatic definitions, miracles, dedications etc.) as well as personal graces like First Communion, Ordination, etc., but they are also often concerned with the order of ideas (e.g. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10111b.htm
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| Â | Dictionary.com/dogmatic |
| | adj 1: characterized by arrogant assertion of unproved or unprovable principles [syn: dogmatical ] 2: relating to or involving dogma; "dogmatic writings" |
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http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=dogmatic
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