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Posted: Tue May 13th, 2008 11:49 am |
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What are the sacred sciences as mentioned in paragraph 906 in the Catechism of the Catholic Church? "Lay people who are capable and trained may also collaborate in catechetical formation, in teaching the sacred sciences, and in use of the communications media."
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Posted: Tue May 13th, 2008 12:55 pm |
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“Sacred science” refers to theology, Jane.
Even as regards those truths about God which human reason could have discovered, it was necessary that man should be taught by a divine revelation; because the truth about God such as reason could discover, would only be known by a few, and that after a long time, and with the admixture of many errors. Whereas man's whole salvation, which is in God, depends upon the knowledge of this truth. Therefore, in order that the salvation of men might be brought about more fitly and more surely, it was necessary that they should be taught divine truths by divine revelation. It was therefore necessary that besides philosophical science built up by reason, there should be a sacred science learned through revelation. – St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica 1.1.1
In the plural, the phrase alludes to the different branches of theology, such as dogmatic, moral, spiritual, biblical, ecclesiology, mariology, etc. Since it deals with knowledge rather than consecration, there is no reason why a layman cannot teach theology, and indeed some do. Several lay theology professors are well known through their appearances on EWTN. This forum even has a young member who is studying to become, perhaps, a theology professor.
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Posted: Tue May 13th, 2008 01:29 pm |
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Thanks, David!
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Posted: Wed May 14th, 2008 10:06 pm |
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Theology used to be called the "Queen of the sciences" in the (really) old days. How far we've come from that! Nowadays so many think theology isn't even an objective thing at all, let alone any sort of "science." And some think it is literally "anti-scientific."
The atheist Bertrand Russell, in his History of Philosophy maintained pretty much (rather arrogantly and stupidly, in my opinion) that a believing Christian could not be a philosopher by definition because in part, a Christian approaches the question of what we can know differently than a philosopher, incorporating divine revelation into the mix.
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Posted: Wed May 14th, 2008 10:10 pm |
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I know there was another philosopher - I think actually it might have been Leo Strauss who said the fundamental failing of contemporary philosophy was the inability to allow for the potential for divine revalation.
But at the same time Strauss is not exactly pro-Christian...
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Posted: Fri May 16th, 2008 05:40 pm |
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| But that is a remarkable statement from someone who isn't a Christian. Interesting . . .
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Posted: Tue Jul 15th, 2008 04:56 pm |
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It's also worth pointing out that there is a dual usage of the term "theology."
Theology, in common usage, is used to describe the academic study of religious doctrine (christian or otherwise).
Within theology, however, there is another meaning and that is the branch of theology devoted to understanding God.
That may be what's going on the the CCC. A distinction between the broader topic and the specific subject.
It all gets very confusing, but when I was coming up we used to just say "theology" when we meant the broader topic and "theology proper' when we meant the specific subject of God.
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