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Synchronic progress in the understanding of doctrine: a marian perspective
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Abstract
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| The question this contribution seeks to answer is how progress in theology is at all possible if truth itself has already been fully revealed in the past. This is in tension with an understanding of progress as a gradual approximation of the truth through time and dependent on historical contingencies. The thrust of the proposal is a synchronic instead of diachronic kind of progress – i.e. not an approximation through time of a truth whose full revelation lies in an ever receding future, but an increase in how deep and precise one understands the truth that was always already latently present since the point of revelation. This proposal is developed in several consecutive stages – an epistemological, theological, doctrinal, historical and constructive stage. It is epistemologically rooted in a Platonist illuminationism with scriptural references to Mary’s memory, theologically illustrated in relation to a supralapsarian Christology, doctrinally developed with the specific case of a dogma declaration by the Catholic Church, and historically connected to Vincent of Lérins’ influential Commonitorium. In a final stage the proposal is developed constructively by considering the Church as an epistemic subject in relation to social epistemology – as a socially extended version of Mary’s mind and memory. |
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Language
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English
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Source (book)
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Progress in theology does the queen of the sciences advance? / van den Brink, G. [edit.]; Peels, R. [edit.]; Sollereder, B.N. [edit.]
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Routledge Science and Religion Series
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Publication
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Oxon
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2025
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ISBN
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978-1-032-62321-4
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DOI
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10.4324/9781032646732-7
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p. 64-83
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