Development Of Doctrine In The Ccc

[Cure of Ars]

Dave Armstrong complied the following list. I am just posting this for easy access.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church (1994) has many references to development of doctrine, or similar concepts (all emphases in caps added):

[quote]66 "The Christian economy, therefore, since it is the new and definitive Covenant, will never pass away; and no new public revelation is to be expected before the glorious manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ."[28] Yet even if Revelation is already complete, it has not been made completely EXPLICIT; it remains for Christian faith gradually to GRASP ITS FULL SIGNIFICANCE over the course of the centuries. [/quote]
[quote]91 All the faithful share in understanding and handing on revealed truth. They have received the anointing of the Holy Spirit, who instructs them[53] and guides them into all truth.[54] [/quote]
[quote]92 "The whole body of the faithful. . . cannot err in matters of belief. This characteristic is shown in the supernatural appreciation of faith (sensus fidei) on the part of the whole people, when, from the bishops to the last of the faithful, they manifest a universal consent in matters of faith and morals."[55] [/quote]
[quote]93 "By this appreciation of the faith, aroused and sustained by the Spirit of truth, the People of God, guided by the sacred teaching authority (Magisterium),. . . receives. . . the faith, once for all delivered to the saints. . . The People unfailingly adheres to this faith, PENETRATES IT MORE DEEPLY with right judgment, and applies it more fully in daily life."[56] [/quote]
Growth in understanding the faith
[quote]94 Thanks to the assistance of the Holy Spirit, the understanding of both the realities and the words of the heritage of faith is able to grow in the life of the Church: - "through the contemplation and study of believers who ponder these things in their hearts";[57] it is in particular "theological research [which] deepens knowledge of revealed truth".[58] - "from the intimate sense of spiritual realities which [believers] experience",[59] the sacred Scriptures "grow with the one who reads them."[60] - "from the preaching of those who have received, along with their right of succession in the episcopate, the sure charism of truth".[61] [/quote]
[quote]99 Thanks to its supernatural sense of faith, the People of God as a whole never ceases to welcome, to penetrate more deeply and to live more fully from the gift of divine Revelation. [/quote]
[quote]158. "'Faith seeks UNDERSTANDING':[St. Anselm, Prosl. prooem. PL 153 225A.] it is intrinsic to faith that a believer desires to know better the One in whom he has put his faith, and to understand better what He has revealed; a more penetrating knowledge will in turn call forth a greater faith, increasingly set afire by love. The grace of faith opens 'the eyes of your hearts'[Eph 1:18 .] to a lively UNDERSTANDING of the contents of Revelation: that is, of the totality of God's plan and the mysteries of faith, of their connection with each other and with Christ, the centre of the revealed mystery. 'The same Holy Spirit constantly perfects faith by his gifts, so that Revelation may be more and more profoundly understood.'[DV 5.] In the words of St. Augustine, 'I believe, in order to understand; and I understand, the better to believe.'[St. Augustine, Sermo 43, 7, 9: PL 38, 257-258.]" [/quote]
[quote]171. "The Church, 'the pillar and bulwark of the truth', faithfully guards 'the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints'. She guards the memory of Christ's words; it is she who from generation to generation hands on the apostles' confession of faith.[1 Tim 3:15 ; Jude 3 .] As a mother who teaches her children to speak and so to understand and communicate, the Church our Mother teaches us the language of faith in order to introduce us to the UNDERSTANDING and the life of faith." [/quote]
[quote]217. "God is also truthful when he reveals himself - the teaching that comes from God is 'true instruction'.[Mal 2:6 .] When he sends his Son into the world it will be 'to bear witness to the truth':[Jn 18:37 .] 'We know that the Son of God has come and has given us UNDERSTANDING, to know him who is true.'[1Jn 5:20 ; cf. Jn 17:3.]" [/quote]
[quote]236. "The Fathers of the Church distinguish between theology (theologia) and economy (oikonomia). 'Theology' refers to the mystery of God's inmost life within the Blessed Trinity and 'economy' to all the works by which God reveals himself and communicates his life. Through the oikonomia the theologia is revealed to us; but conversely, the theologia illuminates the whole oikonomia. God's works reveal who he is in himself; the mystery of his inmost being enlightens our UNDERSTANDING of all his works. So it is, analogously, among human persons. A person discloses himself in his actions, and the better we know a person, the better we understand his actions." [/quote]
[quote]250. "During the first centuries the Church sought to clarify her Trinitarian faith, both to deepen her own UNDERSTANDING of the faith and to defend it against the errors that were deforming it. This clarification was the work of the early councils, aided by the theological work of the Church Fathers and sustained by the Christian people's sense of the faith. " [/quote]
[quote]251. "In order to articulate the dogma of the Trinity, the Church had to DEVELOP her own terminology with the help of certain notions of philosophical origin: 'substance', 'person' or 'hypostasis', 'relation' and so on. In doing this, she did not submit the faith to human wisdom, but gave a new and unprecedented meaning to these terms, which from then on would be used to signify an ineffable mystery, 'infinitely beyond all that we can humanly understand'.[Paul VI, CPC # 2.]" [/quote]
[quote]1230. "This initiation has varied greatly through the centuries according to circumstances. In the first centuries of the Church, Christian initiation saw considerable DEVELOPMENT. A long period of catechumenate included a series of preparatory rites, which were liturgical landmarks along the path of catechumenal preparation and culminated in the celebration of the sacraments of Christian initiation. " [/quote]
[quote]1610. "Moral conscience concerning the unity and indissolubility of marriage DEVELOPED under the pedagogy of the old law. In the Old Testament the polygamy of patriarchs and kings is not yet explicitly rejected. Nevertheless, the law given to Moses aims at protecting the wife from arbitrary domination by the husband, even though according to the Lord's words it still carries traces of man's 'hardness of heart' which was the reason Moses permitted men to divorce their wives.[Cf. Mt 19:8 ; Deut 24:1 .]" [/quote]
[quote]2045. "Because they are members of the Body whose Head is Christ,[Cf. Eph 1:22 .] Christians contribute to building up the Church by the constancy of their convictions and their moral lives. The Church increases, grows, and DEVELOPS through the holiness of her faithful, until 'we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.'[Eph 4:13 ; cf. LG 39.]" [/quote]
[quote]2063. "The covenant and dialogue between God and man are also attested to by the fact that all the obligations are stated in the first person ('I am the Lord.') and addressed by God to another personal subject ('you'). In all God's commandments, the singular personal pronoun designates the recipient. God makes his will known to each person in particular, at the same time as he makes it known to the whole people: The Lord prescribed love towards God and taught justice towards neighbor, so that man would be neither unjust, nor unworthy of God. Thus, through the Decalogue, God prepared man to become his friend and to live in harmony with his neighbor.... The words of the Decalogue remain likewise for us Christians. Far from being abolished, they have received amplification and DEVELOPMENT from the fact of the coming of the Lord in the flesh.[St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres., 4, 16, 3-4: PG 7/1, 1017-1018.]" [/quote]
[quote]2421. "The social DOCTRINE OF the Church developed in the nineteenth century when the Gospel encountered modern industrial society with its new structures for the production OF consumer goods, its new concept OF society, the state and authority, and its new forms OF labor and ownership. The DEVELOPMENT OF the DOCTRINE OF the Church on economic and social matters attests the permanent value OF the Church's teaching at the same time as it attests the true meaning OF her Tradition, always living and active.[Cf. CA 3.] "[/quote]
Other passages which might be interpreted as suggesting development of doctrine or spirituality or liturgy, etc.:

#892 Papal guidance
#126 The Gospels
#2675 The Blessed Virgin Mary
#1201, 2625, 2671, 2777 Liturgy
#2651, 2667 Prayer
#2678, 2684 Spirituality
#711 OT Prophecies

Edited September 24, 2004 by Cure of Ars

[phatcatholic]

sweeeeet

did that make it into the reference section?

[Cure of Ars]

It is now.



How long do posts last on Phatmass???

[cmotherofpirl]

forever

I have 347 pages of posts.....

Edited September 25, 2004 by cmotherofpirl

[Cure of Ars]

That's a long time.

[Laudate_Dominum]

great compilation!

I wonder that too, how l0ng do posts last??

[StColette]

When you do a search for a post you can go back as far as 365 days lol So I'm guessin they last a year

[Laudate_Dominum]

wow, there are some threads I can think of from January/February that I wouldn't mind saving on my computer somehow. Such as the famous Larry (aka Truth) disputations.

[StColette]

lol Happy hunting those down Sean

[Laudate_Dominum]

[quote name='StColette' date='Sep 24 2004, 10:44 PM'] lol Happy hunting those down Sean [/quote]
teehee, I don't recommend them. I want them mainly for self criticism. I could be a little rough around the edges with protestants back then. I was brand new to debating and internet forums and all that.

[StColette]

[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='Sep 24 2004, 10:53 PM'] teehee, I don't recommend them. I want them mainly for self criticism. I could be a little rough around the edges with protestants back then. I was brand new to debating and internet forums and all that. [/quote]
hehehe I understand