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S i d e b a r
MODERNIST ERRORS (AS TAKEN FROM LAMENTABILI)
By James Akin
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This Rock
Volume 5, Number 11
 November 1994 
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4. The magisterium of the Church, even by dogmatic definitions,
cannot determine the genuine sense of the sacred Scriptures.
5. Since in the deposit of faith only revealed truths
are contained, in no respect does it pertain to the Church to pass
judgment on the assertions of human sciences.
7. When the Church proscribes errors, she cannot exact
any internal assent of the faithful by which the judgments published
by her are embraced.
11. Divine inspiration does not so extend to all sacred
Scripture so that it fortifies each and every part of it against all
error.
14. In many narratives the Gospel writers related not
so much what is true, as what they thought to be more profitable for
the reader, although false.
18. John, indeed, claims for himself the character of
an eyewitness concerning Christ, but in reality he is nothing but
a distinguished witness of the Christian life or of the life of the
Christian Church at the end of the first century.
25. The assent of faith ultimately depends on an accumulation
of probabilities.
27. The divinity of Jesus Christ is not proved from the
Gospels but is a dogma which the Christian conscience has deduced
from the notion of the Messiah.
28. When Jesus was exercising his ministry, he did not
speak with the purpose of teaching that he was the Messiah, nor did
his miracles have as their purpose to demonstrate this.
29. It may be conceded that the Christ whom history presents
is far inferior to the Christ who is the object of faith.
35. Christ did not always have the consciousness of his
Messianic dignity.
36. The resurrection of the Savior is not properly a
fact of the historical order, but a fact of the purely supernatural
order, neither demonstrated nor demonstrable, and which the Christian
conscience gradually derived from other sources.
52. It was foreign to the mind of Christ to establish
a Church as a society upon earth to endure for a long course of centuries;
rather, in the mind of Christ the kingdom of heaven together with
the end of the world was to come presently.
53. The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable,
but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual
evolution.
55. Simon Peter never even suspected that the primacy
of the Church was entrusted to him by Christ.
64. The progress of the sciences demand that the concepts
of Christian doctrine about God, creation, revelation, the person
of the incarnate Word, and redemption be readjusted.
65. Present day Catholicism cannot be reconciled with
true science unless it be transformed into a kind of non-dogmatic
Christianity, that is, into a broad and liberal Protestantism.
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