For Catholic theologians, there is a focus on an incessant deepening, and the search for new categories and new expressive methods for speaking the faith of all times. . . . For Catholics [unlike Eastern Orthodox] the dogmas do not just carry out this “negative” function of opposing error, but also a positive function of deepening the understanding of the truth revealed by God once and for all. (Mauro Gagliardi, Truth is a Synthesis: Catholic Dogmatic Theology [Steubenville, Ohio: Emmaus Academic, 2020], 38, 42)
