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Handout #229 |
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The First Vatican Council (1869-1870) |
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The relationship between reason and faith.
Some definitions from the constitution Dei Filius of 24 April 1870 A.D.: If anyone says that the substance or essence of God and of all things is one and identical, let him be anathema. If anyone says that the one true God, our Creator and Lord, cannot be known with certainty through his works in the natural light of human reason, let him be anathema. If anyone says that it is possible that the dogmas propounded by the church can, as a result of the progress of science, be given a meaning different from that which the church has understood and continues to understand, let him be anathema. |
