Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-j824f Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-19T07:20:05.906Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Jaroslav Pelikan
Jaroslav Pelikan
Affiliation:
Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Yale University
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII proclaimed it to be “a dogma divinely revealed that the immaculate Mother of God, the Ever-Virgin Mary, when the course of her earthly life was run, was assumed in body and in soul to heavenly glory.” Unlike some earlier definitions of dogma, the promulgation of the dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin did not provoke any widespread controversy within the Roman Catholic communion about the substance of the doctrine. It had been generally believed by the people and taught by the theologians for a long time, and petitions signed by millions of the faithful had been importuning successive popes throughout this century and before to define it as binding de fide upon the entire Church.

Type
Research Article
Information
Church History , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , March 1966 , pp. 3 - 12
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Church History 1966

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1. Denzinger, H., Enchiridion symbolorum, ed. Schönmetzer, Adolf (32nd ed., Freiburg, 1963), *3903.Google Scholar

2. Jugie, Martin, La mort et l'assomption de la Sainte Vierge (Vatican City, 1944)Google Scholar; Burghardt, Walter J., The Testimony of the Patristic Age Concerning Mary's Death (Westminster, 1957).Google Scholar

3. Denzinger-Schönmetzer, , Enchiridion, *301.Google Scholar

4. Rahner, Karl, “Zur Frage der Dogmenentwicklung,” Schriften zur Theologie, I (Einsiedeln, 1964), p. 49Google Scholar; cf. also his essay, “Überlegungen zur Dogmenentwicklung,” Ibid., IV, pp. 11–50.

5. Murray, John Courtney, The Problem of God Yesterday and Today (New Haven, 1964), p. 53.Google Scholar

6. Journet, Charles, “Scripture and the Immaculate Conception: A Problem in the Evolution of Dogma” in O'Connor, Edward Dennis (ed.), The Dogma of the Immaculate Conception. History and Significance (Notre Dame, 1958), pp. 3–48Google Scholar; Rondet, Henri, Do Dogmas Change?, tr. Pontifex, Mark (New York, 1961), pp. 35–41.Google Scholar

7. Turner, H. E. W., The Pattern of Christian Truth (London, 1954), pp. 487–8.Google Scholar

8. Elert, Werner, Der Ausgang der altkirchlichen Christologie (Berlin, 1957), pp. 324–6.Google Scholar

9. Schwartz, Eduard, “Über Kirchenge-schichte,” Gesammelte Schriften, I (Berlin, 1938), pp. 110–130.Google Scholar

10. Pelikan, Jaroslav, Obedient Rebels. Catholic Substance and Protestant Principle in Luther's Reformation (New York, 1964), pp. 25–104.Google Scholar

11. Gilson, Etienne, “Historical Research and the Future of Scholasticism,” reprinted in Pegis, Anton C. (ed.), A Gilson Reader (Garden City, 1957), p. 156.Google Scholar

12. Holl, Karl, Enthusiasmus und Bussgewalt beim griechischen Mönchtum (Leipzig, 1898).Google Scholar

13. Cf. Miller, Perry, The New England Mind, I, The Seventeenth Century (Boston, 1961), pp. 365–397, 502–505.Google Scholar

14. Bauer, Walter, Rechtgläubigkeit und Ketzerei im ältesten Christentum, ed. Georg, Stecker (Tübingen, 1964)Google Scholar, contains an interesting defense of Bauer by Strecker against Turner.

15. Pelikan, Jaroslav, Luther the Expositor (Saint Louis, 1959), pp. 5–31.Google Scholar

16. “For this series our interest in the work [of Radbertus] resides primarily in the fact that Ratramnus… presents a different view,” Early Medieval Theology, IX of “The Library of Christian Classics,” edd. George E. McCracken and Allen Cabaniss (Philadelphia, 1957), p. 92.Google Scholar

17. Schinder, Alfred, Wort und Analogie in Augustins Trinitätslehre (Tübingen, 1965), p. 129.Google Scholar

18. Harnack, Adolf, Lehrbuch der Dogmengeschichte (5th ed.; Tübingen, 1931), I, pp. 21–22; III, pp. 861–3.Google Scholar

19. Collingwood, R. G., The Idea of History (New York, 1956), pp. 299–300.Google Scholar

20. Bévenot, Maurice, “Introduction” to Cyprian, The Lapsed and The Unity of the Catholic Church, 25 of “Ancient Christian Writers” (Westminster, 1957), p. 7.Google Scholar

21. Cf. Rahner, Hugo, “Leo der Grosse, der Papst des Konzils” in Grillmeier, Aloys and Bacht, Heinrich (edd.), Das Konzil von Chalkedon. Geschichte und Gegenwart, I (Würzburg, 1959), pp. 323–339.Google Scholar

22. Burghardt, Walter J., “Mary in Western Patristic Thought” in Carol, Juniper (ed.), Mariology, I (Milwaukee, 1954), pp. 109–110.Google Scholar

23. Schaff, Philip, The Creeds of Christendom (6th ed.; New York, 1919), I, p. 87.Google Scholar