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Church Teaching Authority

Church Teaching Authority

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Science Publications

General Christianity

ISBN10: 0268008051
ISBN13: 9780268008055
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Feb 1 1995
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Humanae Vitae, the 1968 papal encyclical on contraception, unleashed a flood of argument about church teaching authority and the extent to which the pope and the Roman doctrinal congregation claim preeminent authority over the teaching of bishops and theologians. John P. Boyle presents here the first book-length study that traces the historical and theological developments that produced official statements by the church about its own teaching authority and the assent owed to it, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Boyle suggests that in order to understand the official teaching of today we need to examine the history of such notions as ordinary magisterium, obsequium of the intellect and will, and reception, backwards to their roots in post-Reformation Catholic theology and even further back to their medieval origin.

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