Thursday, November 4, 2021

John T. R. Lamot on the Existence of a Consensus of Theologians in Catholicism

  

. . . the simple fact of the existence of a consensus of theologians in favor of some proposition does not suffice to make the denial of that proposition temerarious. The rejection of a proposition is temerarious only if either the proposition is rejected without providing a serious reason, or the theological censure of “temerarious” has been applied to that proposition by magisterial authority. (John T. R. Lamot, “The Authority of Canonizations,” in Peter A. Kwasniewski, Are Canonizations Infallible? Revisiting a Disputed Question [Bridgeport: Arouca Press, 2021], 151-74, here, p. 165)