The Formation of Christian Doctrine (Biblia.com)

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The Formation of Christian Doctrine is a high-level academic study of the history of Christian doctrinal development. The book distinguishes at length between the scholarly term “inventio” (making explicit what is implicit in the biblical revelation) and the idea of “invention” (presenting a novelty as Christian teaching that conflicts with the biblical revelation). Specifically, The Formation...

Yet the bishop of Rome is not dependent upon the local bishop in his relationship with the local church: “The ministry of the Successor of Peter is something interior to each particular church.”46 As for the churches that do not recognize papal primacy, “non-Catholic Churches and Christian communities” have been “wounded” in different ways. The Eastern Orthodox churches remain united to the Catholic Church by “the apostolic succession and a valid Eucharist.” “The wound is even deeper in those ecclesial

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