Friday, October 15, 2010
What Role for Theologians
Given the recent posts on issues relating to the Church position on homosexuality, an NCR commentary written by Regina Schulte, a theologian and the wife of the late James Schulte, coauthor of Human Sexuality: New Directions in American Catholic Thought, the 1977 study commissioned by the Catholic Theological Society of America, might be of interest to some. Schlute argues that "[t]he roles of theologian and bishop in their complementary relationship are badly in need of re-examination and carefully nuanced distinctions." She writes:
It is apparent that the hierarchy has usurped the entire teaching office -- the “magisterium” -- for themselves; yet they are only one of three components endowed with this charism. Theologians and the wisdom born of experience in the “sense of the faithful” comprise the other two. It would seem, then, that appropriate exercise of their distinctive roles requires that bishops collaborate rather than compete.
The full commentary is here.
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2010/10/what-role-for-theologians.html
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Am just a simple fellow, so I look to the catechism and not to Regina Schulte in order to better understand how Holy Church understands herself.
85 « Munus autem authentice interpretandi Verbum Dei scriptum vel traditum soli vivo Ecclesiae Magisterio concreditum est, cuius auctoritas in nomine Iesu Christi exercetur »,nempe Episcopis in communione cum Petri Successore, Romano Episcopo.
And more specifically in the realm of moral theology, the 'assistance' of theologians is put into the proper perspective:
2033 Magisterium Pastorum Ecclesiae in re morali ordinarie in catechesi et in praedicatione exercetur, cum adiutorio operum theologorum et auctorum spiritualium.
Oremus pro invicem.