Knowing God by reason alone: what Vatican I never said

While the First Vatican Council (1869–70) decreed that for Catholics it is a dogma of faith that we can have certain knowledge of God by the natural light of reason it was only in the Anti-Modernist Oath (1910) that this knowledge was defined as rationally demonstrable by cosmological arguments.

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Main Author: Kerr, Fergus 1931- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2010
In: New blackfriars
Year: 2010, Volume: 91, Issue: 1033, Pages: 215-228
Further subjects:B Vatican I
B Catholic Catechism
B Traditionalism
B Denys Turner
B demonstrability of God's existence
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Summary:While the First Vatican Council (1869–70) decreed that for Catholics it is a dogma of faith that we can have certain knowledge of God by the natural light of reason it was only in the Anti-Modernist Oath (1910) that this knowledge was defined as rationally demonstrable by cosmological arguments.
ISSN:1741-2005
Contains:Enthalten in: New blackfriars
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-2005.2010.01361.x