Could you define those?Literal inerrancy or contextual inerrancy?
I keep seeing stuff by scholars on the Pontifical Biblical Commission who seem to deny scriptural inerrancy. Does this commission have teaching authority? Or are they just to report back to the Magesterium with their findings?
Could you define those?
The opinions expressed by members of the Pontifical Biblical Commision are not nessesarily endorsed by the Pope. In fact, he has made several critical statements as an accademic against certain tendencies of scholars who are part of the PBC. They provide educated opinions that the Pope, the Bishops, and anyone else are free to ignore. So in this sense, they have no authority. They do have authority in the sense that they are highly influential and their scholarship is highly respected by the Church.Here you are:
THE ROMAN CURIA
In exercising supreme, full, and immediate power in the universal Church, the Roman pontiff makes use of the departments of the Roman Curia which, therefore, perform their duties in his name and with his authority for the good of the churches and in the service of the sacred pastors.
CHRISTUS DOMINUS, 9
vatican.va/roman_curia/index.htm
And these are
The PBC is a Pontifical Commission - so it is listed here: vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_commissions/index.htm
- Congregations
- Tribunals
- Pontifical Councils
- Synod of Bishops
- Offices
- Pontifical Commissions
- Swiss Guard
- Institutions connected with the Holy See
- Labour Office of the Apostolic See
- Pontifical Academies
- Pontifical Committees
so some - but not all - seem to be very tenously related to the description in the quotation.
I hope that’s more use to you than none.
- Cultural Heritage of the Church
- Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”
- Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology
- [Pontifical Biblical Commission (http://forums.catholic-questions.org/congregations/cfaith/pcb_index.htm)
- International Theological Commission
- Interdicasterial Commission for the Catechism of the Catholic Church
- Pontifical Commission for Latin America
Some people seem to want to ignore the PBC - perhaps they should ignore the Commission “Ecclesia Dei” as well. “Is not part of the Magisterium” =//= “is totally irrelevant & can be ignored” - the Pope after all is the best-informed interpreter of his own acts.
vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/pcb_documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20030510_ratzinger-comm-bible_en.htmlLet us continue our investigation from Mount Nebo: Maier, from his vantage point, could have especially rejoiced in what took place in June of 1971. With the motu proprio Sedula Cura, Paul VI completely restructured the Biblical Commission so that it was no longer an organ of the Magisterium, but a meeting place between the Magisterium and exegetes, a place of dialogue in which representatives of the Magisterium and qualified exegetes could meet to find together, so to speak, the intrinsic criteria which prevent freedom from self-destruction, thus elevating it to the level of true freedom. Maier could also have rejoiced in the fact that one of his best students, Rudolf Schnackenburg, became a member not of the Biblical Commission itself, but of the no less important International Theological Commission, so that he now found himself, as it were, almost a part of that Commission which had caused him so much worry.
Does anyone know of an English translation of Sedula Cura? It is offered on the vatican website, but in Italian and Latin only.Gottle of Geer,
Someone in another thread pointed this out:
vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/pcb_documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20030510_ratzinger-comm-bible_en.html
So do you still consider the PBC part of the magisterium?
Big article. I’ve skimmed it…looks pretty interesting, and thanks in general, I like the journal! It has a number of interesting articles.Here is an interesting article on the PBC and its relationship with Theology and the magisterium.
God bless,
Ut