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This doctrine is based upon the natural law and upon the written Word of God, is transmitted by the Church's Tradition and taught by the ordinary and universal Magisterium. 73 No circumstance, no purpose, no law whatsoever can ever make licit an act which is intrinsically illicit, since it is contrary to the Law of God which is written in every human heart, knowable by reason itself, and ...
4. Saint Paul's statements just quoted and to which reference is made by the Church's magisterium, enlighten our faith on the consequences of Adam's sin for all mankind. Catholic exegetes and theologians will always be guided by this teaching in evaluating, with the wisdom of faith, the explanations offered by science about the origins of man.
As they told the familiar story of Israel from this Easter perspective, the early church began to write it down, allowing the story to be shared more broadly and consistently. By the end of the second century, the core books — the four Gospels, and the letters attributed to Paul, Peter, and John — were fixed in the canon of what we call the New Testament.
- THE REVELATION OF GOD'S WISDOM. Jesus, revealer of the Father 7. Underlying all the Church's thinking is the awareness that she is the bearer of a message which has its origin in God himself (cf.
- CREDO UT INTELLEGAM. “Wisdom knows all and understands all” (Wis 9:11) 16. Sacred Scripture indicates with remarkably clear cues how deeply related are the knowledge conferred by faith and the knowledge conferred by reason; and it is in the Wisdom literature that this relationship is addressed most explicitly.
- INTELLEGO UT CREDAM. Journeying in search of truth. 24. In the Acts of the Apostles, the Evangelist Luke tells of Paul's coming to Athens on one of his missionary journeys.
- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FAITH AND REASON. Important moments in the encounter of faith and reason. 36. The Acts of the Apostles provides evidence that Christian proclamation was engaged from the very first with the philosophical currents of the time.
In introducing the Catechism, Pope John Paul II says, "Guarding the deposit of Faith is the mission which the Lord entrusted to His Church and which He fulfills in every age." This is why the Pope says, "The new Catechism of the Catholic Church is the Church itself calling on us to entrust to young Catholics once more the deposit that is their rightful inheritance."
What characterizes Catholic exegesis is that it deliberately places itself within the living tradition of the church, whose first concern is fidelity to the revelation attested by the Bible. Modern hermeneutics has made clear, as we have noted, the impossibility of interpreting a text without starting from a "pre-understanding" of one type or another.
Some feared that John Paul II, with his steadfast faith, might call Paul VI's openness to dialogue into question. Others, identifying a crisis in the Church, hoped that he would. His response to the crisis was a response of faith, that is, of greater belief, and he plunged further into the depths of spiritual life.
