Religious assent and the assent of faith?

[Victor]

[color=green]Divine assistance is also given to the successors of the apostles, teaching in communion with the successor of Peter, and, in a particular way, to the bishop of Rome, pastor of the whole Church, when, without arriving at an infallible definition and without pronouncing in a "definitive manner," they propose in the exercise of the ordinary Magisterium a teaching that leads to better understanding of Revelation in matters of faith and morals. To this ordinary teaching the faithful "are to adhere to it with religious assent" which, though distinct from the assent of faith, is nonetheless an extension of it. (CCC#892)[/color]

[color=blue]Can anyone give me your definition of the difference between religious assent and the assent of faith?

~Victor[/color]

[Era Might]

"Religious assent of mind and will" is a submission to ordinary teaching of the Church, when she does not choose to exercise her supreme and directly infallible authority. The assent of faith is an assent of total faith, because the Church has exercised her infallible authority in a direct way, whereas the assent of mind and will recognizes that the Church has spoken, but does not enjoin it with the same solemnity.

[dspen2005]

religious assent is birthed from the intellect; faith stems from the will.

[Era Might]

[quote name='dspen2005' date='Nov 2 2005, 06:54 AM']religious assent is birthed from the intellect; faith stems from the will.
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They both require intellect and will. Lumen Gentium specifically uses that formula:

"a religious assent of intellect and will."

They just require them in different degrees.

Edited November 2, 2005 by Era Might

[Laudate_Dominum]

you guys are cool. this is a great discussion.

[Paphnutius]

According to a book written in the 50's by a Fr. Francis Connell C.Ss.R. (he taught at CUA), Outlines of Moral Theology, a [b]religous assent[/b] is when we hold those truths which are authoritatively but not infallibly proposed by the Church. The Chuch must give these an internal assent based on the fact that the authortative teaching power of the Church is assisted by the Holy Spirit. It is (or was at the time) considered a grave sin of disobedience to refuse to accept such truths.

[b]Assent of faith[/b], also called ecclesiastical fiath, is when we hold those truths that are not contained in divine revelation (de fide), but are connected with it and have been defined by the Church with the exercise of its infallible power (fides ecclesiastica). An example of this one would be canonization and what not. These truths are the secondary object of the infallible power, whose primary object is contained in divine revelation.

Edited November 2, 2005 by Paphnutius

[dspen2005]

[quote name='Era Might' date='Nov 2 2005, 07:16 AM']They both require intellect and will. Lumen Gentium specifically uses that formula:

"a religious assent of intellect and will."

They just require them in different degrees.
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true. they both require it.... but if I am not mistakened.... religious assent originates from intellect, reason... whereas, faith, because it is not completely reasonable, must originate from the will

[Paphnutius]

The theological virtue of Faith, which this topic falls under, is an act of the intellect. Hope and Charity are acts of the will.