Morals of the Church
Library › Konings, Theologia Moralis › Volume I › Decrees, Declarations, and Instructions Pertaining to Moral Matters › I. Chronological Series of Condemned Propositions › P. Syllabus Embracing the Principal Errors of Our Age Which Are Noted in Consistorial Allocutions, in Encyclicals, and in Other Apostolic Letters of Our Most Holy Lord Pope Pius IX

Section — Konings, Theologia Moralis

§ I: Pantheism, Naturalism, and Absolute Rationalism

¶1.
  1. No supreme, most wise, and most provident Divine Being exists distinct from this universe of things, and God is the same as the nature of things, and therefore subject to changes; and God really comes to be in man and in the world, and all things are God and have the very substance of God; and one and the same thing is God with the world, and therefore spirit with matter, necessity with liberty, true with false, good with evil, and just with unjust.

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¶3.
  1. Every action of God upon men and the world is to be denied.

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¶5.
  1. Human reason, with absolutely no respect had to God, is the sole arbiter of true and false, good and evil; it is a law to itself, and by its natural powers suffices for caring for the good of men and peoples.

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¶7.
  1. All truths of Religion derive from the native force of human reason; hence reason is the principal norm by which man can and ought to attain the knowledge of all truths of whatever kind.

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¶8.

Encyclical letter Qui pluribus, November 9, 1846. - Encyclical letter Singulari quidem, March 17, 1856. - Alloc. Maxima quidem, June 9, 1862.

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¶9.
  1. Divine revelation is imperfect, and therefore subject to a continuous and indefinite progress which corresponds to the progress of human reason.

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¶10.

Encyclical letter Qui pluribus, November 9, 1846. - Alloc. Maxima quidem, June 9, 1862.

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¶11.
  1. The faith of Christ is opposed to human reason; and divine revelation not only profits nothing, but even harms the perfection of man.

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¶12.

Encyclical letter Qui pluribus, November 9, 1846. - Alloc. Maxima quidem, June 9, 1862.

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¶13.
  1. Prophecies and miracles, set forth and narrated in the Sacred Scriptures, are fictions of poets, and the mysteries of the Christian Faith are the sum of philosophical investigations; and in the books of both Testaments mythical inventions are contained; and Jesus Christ himself is a mythical fiction.

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¶14.

Encyclical letter Qui pluribus, November 9, 1846. - Alloc. Maxima quidem, June 9, 1862.

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