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What Is Methodology?
As the article below explains, it’s important to remind people that the difference between those who hold the correct position on Baptism and salvation in our day and those who don’t (i.e. people who believe in ‘baptism of desire,’ ‘invincible ignorance’, etc.) frequently comes down to, and is often best defined by, a difference in methodology. In this context the term methodology refers to how people use the data and pronouncements of Catholic teaching. The obstinate adherents of BOD, invincible ignorance, etc. simply do not believe that the Church’s dogmatic pronouncements and definitions (or even the magisterial teaching of encyclicals) constitute the final word on these matters. They affirm, in practice if not always explicitly, that the Church’s pronouncements are not to be used as such. Instead, they hold and teach that theologians (including numerous 20th century modernists) providing their fallible spin on the Church’s dogmatic pronouncements should be given consideration equal to the dogmatic pronouncements themselves, with the effect, in such a methodology, that the fallible theologians are essentially granted the ability to re-define the dogmatic pronouncements. The end result, for them, is that the fallible opinion of the theologian (which often drifts far from, or blatantly contradicts, the language of the dogmatic pronouncement itself) becomes the final word on the subject rather than the dogmatic pronouncement. As the article below and our other materials on the subject explain, their methodology is false. It is actually outrageous. It is opposed to the Church’s teaching. It contradicts and renders meaningless the unique protections Jesus Christ gave to the papal office. (If adopted, it would also leave a person with no consistent way to reject Vatican II). We see the same false methodology at work with certain non-sedevacantists in our day, such as those who ridiculously cite the inaccurate speculations of John of St. Thomas against the dogmatic teaching of the Church at Vatican I and in Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Satis Cognitum. They truly are worshippers of man, devoid of faith in God, His Revelation, and the office He instituted in St. Peter. The very purpose of Jesus Christ’s institution of the Papacy upon St. Peter was so that popes, endowed with a unique protection of infallibility, could define, once and for all times, the truth of Christ on a matter. By adhering to and utilizing what the popes have defined without deviation, Catholics would be freed of the mere opinions of men. That is the Church’s teaching on the purpose and use of dogmatic pronouncements.
The false methodology of obstinate adherents of BOD, etc. arises from their failure to believe that the Church’s dogmatic pronouncements and definitions have a supernatural quality and protection that differentiates them in essence from the speculations of theologians and men. This matter is discussed in the article below, in our salvation book, and in related materials. The article on Van Noort's book also discusses (and refutes) what many supporters of BOD, I.I., etc. teach about ‘supernatural faith.’ They define ‘supernatural faith’ as believing that God exists and that He’s a rewarder. They claim such a ‘supernatural faith’ is all that’s absolutely necessary for salvation. Their position on ‘supernatural faith,’ therefore, does not exclude Muslims, Jews, and others from salvation; for Muslims and Jews profess that God exists and that He’s a rewarder. The article refutes their position on ‘supernatural faith’ (and proves it to be heretical) by demonstrating that, according to the Catholic Church’s dogmatic teaching, what’s necessary for salvation is ‘Catholic faith’. The ‘Catholic faith’ has a defined set of requirements that exceed their definition of ‘supernatural faith’ (e.g. believing in Jesus Christ and the Holy Trinity).“Baptism of Desire” Buried (video)
Outside the Catholic Church There is Absolutely No Salvation (book)
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH'S DOGMATIC TEACHING ON BAPTISM
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