tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598228705498900088.post5150472940091291301..comments2024-03-12T07:54:08.013+00:00Comments on Offerimus Tibi Domine: Hermeneutic of Continuity in Religious LifeFr Simon Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05375804232895565241noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598228705498900088.post-50125609625111157272010-08-25T15:57:53.998+01:002010-08-25T15:57:53.998+01:00...and from “Iota Unum - a study of the changes in......and from “Iota Unum - a study of the changes in the Catholic Church in the XXth century” (Romano Amerio - Sarto House). Paragraph 50: “Novel hermeneutic of the Council, continued. ‘Circisterisms’.”<br /><br />-<br /><br />“The ‘circisterism’ is something which occurs frequently in the arguments of the innovators. It consists in referring to an indistinct and confused term, as if it were well-established and defined and then extracting or excluding from it the element one needs to extract or exclude. The term ‘spirit of the council’, or indeed ‘the council’, is just such an expression...the conciliar texts, like any others, have, independent of the reading that may be made of them, an obvious and univocal readability, that is, a literal sense which is the basis of any other sense which may be found in them. Hermeneutical perfection consists in reducing the second reading to the first, which gives the true sense of the text. The Church, moreover, has never proceeded in any other way.<br /><br />“The technique adopted by innovators in the post-conciliar period thus consists in illuminating or obscuring, glossing or reinforcing, individual parts of a text or of a truth. This is merely the abuse of that faculty of abstraction which the mind necessarily exercises when it examines any complex whole. It is a necessary condition of all discursive knowledge arrived at in time, as distinct from angelic intuition.<br /><br />“To this they add another technique, characteristic of those who disseminate error: that of hiding one truth behind another so as to be able to behave as if the hidden truth were not only hidden but simply non-existent.”<br /><br />Prof. Romano Amerio, peritus to His Excellency, Bishop of Lugano, Angelo Giuseppe Jelmini, member of the Central Preparatory Commission of Vatican II.GWAMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01840883223560338540noreply@blogger.com