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From Seattle:
(Levada) He said one of the “negative aspects” of the congregation’s work is that it must occasionally intervene and ask theologians how they justify their positions or square them with the faith. That can be misunderstood as a form of repression, he said.
“I think people have sometimes gotten the idea that if you don’t let every theologian say everything that he or she thinks, or if you challenge them in any way and say, ‘That’s not correct,’ that somehow you are impeding freedom of conscience or freedom of inquiry,” he said.
“But that’s not the case. We have freedom to inquire. But a theologian himself or herself is called to discriminate between where that inquiry leads and how it corresponds to the faith that the church continues to receive and to live by. Otherwise they would not be doing true theology, it seems to me,” he said.
“Theology itself is in dialogue with revelation, which has some things to say. And you can’t just say that revelation says anything you want it to say,” he said.
seattlearch.org/FormationAndEducation/Progress/Archbishop+Levada+++++++6-9-05.htm
(Levada) He said one of the “negative aspects” of the congregation’s work is that it must occasionally intervene and ask theologians how they justify their positions or square them with the faith. That can be misunderstood as a form of repression, he said.
“I think people have sometimes gotten the idea that if you don’t let every theologian say everything that he or she thinks, or if you challenge them in any way and say, ‘That’s not correct,’ that somehow you are impeding freedom of conscience or freedom of inquiry,” he said.
“But that’s not the case. We have freedom to inquire. But a theologian himself or herself is called to discriminate between where that inquiry leads and how it corresponds to the faith that the church continues to receive and to live by. Otherwise they would not be doing true theology, it seems to me,” he said.
“Theology itself is in dialogue with revelation, which has some things to say. And you can’t just say that revelation says anything you want it to say,” he said.
seattlearch.org/FormationAndEducation/Progress/Archbishop+Levada+++++++6-9-05.htm