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The Syllabus of Errors
Topic Started: Thursday, 27. October 2011, 00:37 (521 Views)
OsullivanB

Syllabus
 
[It is an error to assert that]

9. All the dogmas of the Christian religion are indiscriminately the object of natural science or philosophy, and human reason, enlightened solely in an historical way, is able, by its own natural strength and principles, to attain to the true science of even the most abstruse dogmas; provded only that such dogmas be proposed to reason itelf as its object. - Letters to the Archbishop of Munich, "Gravissimas inter." Dec.11, 1862, and "Tuas libenter." Dec. 21, 1863.
If this means that scientific and philosophical reason unaided by faith and revelation cannot lead us to the truths of religion, then I doubt that it was ever the subject of much dissent, though I have a feeling that an ardent Thomist, and perhaps the Angelic Doctor himself, might say "Yes,but..." If it means somehting else, I'll pass on this one until enlightened.
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation." Herbert Spencer
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