that the final interpreter of the Council is of course the living magisterium of the Catholic Church.30 First, if we interpret Vatican II’s teaching on Scripture with a hermeneutic of continuity, then the weight of probability is tipped heavily in favor of absolute (or complete) inerrancy. The reason: previous magisterial teachings on Scripture are unequivocal on this point. For example, in 1870, Vatican I dogmatically proclaimed that the canonical books of Scripture contain
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