Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1998
Publication Information
16 Crisis, no. 2, Feb. 1998, at 36.
Abstract
Most parties to the debate over Ex Corde Ecclesiae agree that Canon 812 is at the heart of the matter. Canon 812 says: "It is necessary that those who teach theological disciplines in any institute of higher studies have a mandate from the competent ecclesiastical authority." Essentially, the canon requires the consent of some Church authority (likely the local ordinary) to the appointment of theology professors.
Why is the matter so central? Because the stakes are very great. Behind the disagreement over Canon 812 lies a disagreement over what Catholic theology is, a disagreement that is substantially a product of different views about the nature of revelation (e.g., whether revelation includes effective divine communication of some true propositions in the apostolic age).
Recommended Citation
Gerard V. Bradley,
Ex Corde Ecclesiae and the Civil Law,
16 Crisis, no. 2, Feb. 1998, at 36..
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/law_faculty_scholarship/1777
Comments
This article is part of a larger feature:
The Future of Catholic Education Robert George, William Saunders, and Gerard Bradley challenge Commonweal's diluted reading of Ex Corde Ecclesiae.