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Knowing God by reason alone:
what Vatican I never said
Author(s) -
Kerr Fergus
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
new blackfriars
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1741-2005
pISSN - 0028-4289
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-2005.2010.01361.x
Subject(s) - faith , oath , philosophy , natural (archaeology) , theology , epistemology , history , archaeology
While the First Vatican Council (1869–70) decreed that for Catholics it is a dogma of faith that we can have certain knowledge of God by the natural light of reason it was only in the Anti‐Modernist Oath (1910) that this knowledge was defined as rationally demonstrable by cosmological arguments.