tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670360131617205450.post5459374975224862245..comments2023-06-18T05:01:03.708-05:00Comments on Popin' Ain't Easy: Litany of Heresies #2Throwbackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14896446477292839087noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670360131617205450.post-21946534235586021862008-05-29T08:05:00.000-05:002008-05-29T08:05:00.000-05:00One other thing I should add. One must always begi...One other thing I should add. One must always begin with the literal sense because it is the literal sense upon which all the others are founded. That's somewhere in the Catechism quoting (I think) Aquinas.Throwbackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14896446477292839087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670360131617205450.post-12821525935117252142008-05-28T22:30:00.000-05:002008-05-28T22:30:00.000-05:00Note that none of the documents cited require lite...Note that none of the documents cited require literalism. Going back all the way to the Fathers, the Church has acknowledged different senses in which Scripture may be interpreted: literal, spiritual, allegorical, moral, and anagogical.<BR/><BR/>Genesis 1 is a good example. Another example might be the Song of Songs. I suppose a person might think that Solomon was reproducing an actual dialogue between a real man and a real woman, but none of the Church's commentators that I'm aware of would have said such a thing.<BR/><BR/>What you can't do is what so many folks try to do these days which is abolish the literal sense altogether. Christ's miracles are regarded as just graphic versions of parables. They didn't really happen. Or folks try to pit, say, John's view of Christ against Paul's. Or that Jesus didn't really say all those things in the Gospels. The best document on the subject is Leo XIII's Providentissimus Deus, by the way.<BR/><BR/>The JPII address you posted is pretty famous. I think that he kind of goes a bit far afield here, but for the most part, he's right. Humanis Generis is still the guiding document for the Church on this as it is an exercise of magisterial authority. For all the hullaballoo over evolution, I have to admit that I really don't think about it unless a Protestant colleague brings it up.Throwbackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14896446477292839087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670360131617205450.post-10929007611291140982008-05-28T07:23:00.000-05:002008-05-28T07:23:00.000-05:00I was under the impression that the catholic churc...I was under the impression that the catholic church didn't view all the bible as the literal truth. For example isn't Genesis viewed as an Allegory? I know fundamentalists tend to view Genesis as the literal truth, I work with a dude who believes the world is only 10,000 years old etc. Anyway further on this point here is some of Pope John Paul IIs remarks which led me to that conclusion: http://www.newadvent.org/library/docs_jp02tc.htmhaskovechttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14535758827874653627noreply@blogger.com