Quote from: Kephapaulos on June 29, 2017, 10:30:20 PMIs it also true that moral theology was treated as a subset of canon law? And was there really a separation between dogmatic theology and moral theology as I have heard claimed?
Theology is both a speculative and a practical (applied) science, so "dogmatic theology" and "moral theology" (e.g.,
that of St. Alphonsus, who frequently cites St. Thomas) cannot be inseparable. We often hear today from heretics (e.g., re:
Amoris Lætitia) that dogma cannot change but "its pastoral application to concrete situations" can; this is untrue.
Quote from: Kephapaulos on June 29, 2017, 10:30:20 PMDid neo-Thomism get to describe the relationship between Scripture and Tradition? I found a claim in the video about Dei Verbum that it was contributed amd worked out by those of the new theology. Shouldn't the new theology be trashed though?
Yes,
Nouvelle Théologie is Modernism; this is what
Fr. G.-L. wrote concerning Humani Generis (of which he's thought to have been the drafter) and what he concluded in his famous "
Where is the New Theology Leading Us?" article (
OCRed here).
Quote from: Kephapaulos on June 29, 2017, 10:30:20 PMextra ecclesia nullus omnino salvatur.
Fr. G.-L.'s student Msgr. Fenton's
The Catholic Church and Salvation: In the Light of Recent Pronouncements of the Holy See is a solid treatment of this.
Quote from: Kephapaulos on June 29, 2017, 10:30:20 PMThere is a claim also that the Church's structure is not a monarchical constitutional and that it is instead concentric.
What's meant by concentric?
Read the first chapters of St. Robert Bellarmine's
On the Roman Pontiff, which prove the excellence of monarchy and that this is in fact the way Christ constituted the government of the Church.
Quote from: Kephapaulos on June 29, 2017, 10:30:20 PMProper development of theology should have continued from neo-Thomism.
term "Neo-Thomism" really lacks precision. Fr. G.-L. didn't use it when he wanted to refer to theology or philosophy based on the principles, method, or commentators of St. Thomas; he simply said "Thomism." The term "Neo-Thomism" is generally used by Modernists (e.g., those of the
Nouvelle Théologie) who disregard the Thomistic commentators ("those rivulets which, derived from the very fount [of 'the doctrine of Thomas'], have thus far flowed, according to the established agreement of learned men, pure and clear," as Pope Leo XIII put it in
Æterni Patris) and instead want to go straight to the sources (
risorgimento or resourcement) of St. Thomas's writings and invariably put their own Modernist ideas right into the mouth or pen of St. Thomas! Thus, "Neo-Thomists" apply to St. Thomas's writings the same method of historicism (condemned in
Humani Generis, spec. §7: "There is also a certain historicism, which attributing value only to the events of man's life, overthrows the foundation of all truth and absolute law, both on the level of philosophical speculations and especially to Christian dogmas.") that Modernists apply to Holy Scripture or that Modernist liturgists applied to "rediscovering" (translation: "inventing") the
Novus Ordo eucharistic prayers 2, 3, 4 (i.e., the non-Roman Canon ones); this latter action was condemned in Pope Pius XII's
Mediator Dei encyclical on the liturgy.
Quote from: Kephapaulos on June 29, 2017, 10:30:20 PMThere is a mention of the "intentio auctoris"
The Neo-Thomists think they know the "
intentionem auctoris" better than the "authors" (the Church and her theologians) themselves do! Bouyer, for example,
ridiculed orthodox Thomism represented by Fr. G.-L. et al., calling it "John of St. Thomist theology"! Modernists deny Vatican I's
Dei Filius, where it says: "that meaning of the sacred dogmas is perpetually to be retained which our holy mother the Church has once declared; nor is that meaning ever to be departed from,
under the pretense or pretext of a deeper comprehension of them." Modernists (or Neo-Thomists) might start with the Church's (or St. Thomas's) principles, but then they "develop" them and end up with something that denies these very principles, turning something good into something quite evil and false. Modernists abhor the logical-deductive method and instead prefer inventing "truths" that suit the exigencies of "modern man."