Papal Teaching in the Age of Infallibility, 1870 to the Present
A Critical Evaluation with Historical Illustrations
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Papal Teaching in the Age of Infallibility, 1870 to the Present
A Critical Evaluation with Historical Illustrations
About This Book
Kevin Keating examines the major writings of the Roman Pontiffs from Pius IX in the last half of the nineteenth century to the most recent writings of Francis. He explores the shift in papal focus from internal church matters and attacks on modern thought to concern for matters affecting all of humanity--not just spiritually, but socially, politically, and economically as well. Looming over all of these teachings is the specter of the doctrine of infallibility. First defined in 1870 to cover only papal infallibility, it would be expanded in the 1960s to include the exercise of infallibility by the worldwide college of bishops.Keating discusses the most significant themes dealt with by popes during this period--the Bible, religious freedom, church-state relations, social doctrine, human sexuality, ecumenism, and interreligious dialogue. He describes how papal teaching has changed, developed, and even been contradicted by later popes, although they have failed to expressly acknowledge departures from prior teaching. He details how the doctrine of infallibility, far from serving to bolster the credibility of papal teaching, often has served to undermine it.
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Vatican I: The Definition and Exercise of the Doctrine of Papal Infallibility
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Introduction: The Pope as Teacher
- Chapter 1: Vatican I: The Definition and Exercise of the Doctrine of Papal Infallibility
- Chapter 2: Vatican II: The Announcement of the Infallibility of the College of Bishops
- Chapter 3: Opposition: The Church and Modern Thought
- Chapter 4: Sole Authority: The Bible
- Chapter 5: Contradiction: Religious Freedom
- Chapter 6: Ambivalence: Church and State
- Chapter 7: Silence: The Morality of Wars
- Chapter 8: Development and Discontinuity: Catholic Social Doctrine
- Chapter 9: Confusion: The Necessity of the Catholic Church for Salvation
- Chapter 10: Arrogance: Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue
- Chapter 11: Constancy: Human Sexuality—Marriage and Divorce, Birth Control, and Homosexuality
- Chapter 12: Certainty: Murder, Abortion, Euthanasia, and the Death Penalty
- Chapter 13: Not an Option: The Priestly Ordination of Women
- Chapter 14: Avoidance: The Problem of Evil and Suffering
- Postscript: Uncertainty: The Boundaries of the Infallibility of the College of Bishops
- Bibliography