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Development of Catholic Doctrine: Evolution, Revolution, or an Organic Process? is unavailable, but you can change that!

C.S. Lewis, the famous Anglican writer, once wrote: “The very possibility of progress demands that there should be an unchanging element … the positive historical statements made by Christianity have the power … of receiving, without intrinsic change, the increasing complexity of meaning which increasing knowledge puts into them.” Doctrine clearly develops within Scripture—that’s the nature of...

The Catholic Church defines doctrinal development as a growth of depth and clarity in the understanding of the truths of divine revelation. It is important to understand that the substantial or essential truths at the core of each doctrine (as part of the one apostolic deposit, given from Christ to the apostles) remain unchanged. The Catholic Church preserves this deposit, and is the Guardian of it. Only
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