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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

How does one “interpret” dogma? How do you interpret the Blessed Mother’s Immaculate Conception. It’s like trying to interpret a rock.


61 posted on 04/12/2014 8:51:48 AM PDT by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide
How does one “interpret” dogma?

It can be expanded on, like deriving principles from first principles, or its practical implications can be explicated. Vatican II was largely an example of the latter, as far as I know.

62 posted on 04/12/2014 9:00:04 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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