What O'Clock I Say: Juridical Epistemics and the Magisterium of the Church
Petruchio: I will not go today; and ere I doIt shall be what o'clock I say it is.Hortensio: Why, so, this gallant will command the sun.Scrope, C.J.: I remember it well, but I can have no knowledge of it in my capacity as judge.The Catholic Church claims a wide authority to make pronouncements o...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2000
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Journal of law and religion
Year: 2000, Volume: 14, Issue: 2, Pages: 285-311 |
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| Summary: | Petruchio: I will not go today; and ere I doIt shall be what o'clock I say it is.Hortensio: Why, so, this gallant will command the sun.Scrope, C.J.: I remember it well, but I can have no knowledge of it in my capacity as judge.The Catholic Church claims a wide authority to make pronouncements on faith and morals, and have them respected by members of the church. The nature and extent of the respect to be accorded them is subject to considerable debate, some of it both extensive and acrimonious. It is claimed, to be sure, that certain pronouncements are infallible; if so, they are obviously beyond debate. But for most pronouncements no such claim is made. Furthermore, the question whether a given pronouncement is infallible or not is itself debatable, and can generally not be infallibly resolved.We are confronted, therefore, with an array of assertions of varying provenance to which we are expected to give some measure of credence, even though we have no guarantee that they are true, or even that their authors are particularly well-informed. They take their authority from that of the church, which in its corporate capacity is the repository of God's Revelation, and the beneficiary of His guidance. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3088 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3556573 |