Theological Language

Contents

PART ONE

The principles of expression according to which
Catholic writers should express themselves
Introduction  
Forward  
Chapter 1. Obscurity in writing, and its causes.
Chapter 2. Obscurity dependent upon writer or speaker.
Chapter 3. Obscurity dependent upon reader or hearer.
Chapter 4. Obscurity arising from difficulties with the subject.
Chapter 5 Continuation.
Chapter 5. (Sic) [sic].  Doctrinal innovation, and innovative ways of unfolding traditional doctrines.
Chapter 6. New and godless language compared with praiseworthy innovations first used by Christian teachers, and then by the Church herself.
Chapter 7. Continuation.  How heretics are and always have been enemies of praiseworthy innovation both in the development of the sacred deposit and in vocabulary.
Chapter 8. Continuation.  The application and wisdom required in abhorring and rejecting actual godless innovations and expressed godless innovations.
Chapter 9. Zeal against heretical waywardness has to be combined with knowledge and discretion if errors of judgment are to be avoided.
Chapter 10. The theological and logical rules to be fol­lowed in judging the waywardness or soundness of a Catholic writer.

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