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- rareuncountableCatholicismTheology of the magisterium, i.e. the teaching authority of the church. More precisely the study of how to interpret the teachings of the church.
It is also a necessary corrective today for the absolute tutiorism [rigorism] implicit in much of the oracular magisteriology which still abides at every level of the church.
1980, Daniel C. Maguire, “The Encyclopedia of Bioethics”, in Theological Studies, volume 41, number 4, →DOI, page 7572 more examples
These studies have not pointed out these errors and inadequacies in order to discredit the hierarchical magisterium but rather to make possible a realistic magisteriology that will properly reflect the true nature of the teaching and witnessing of the Church.
1970, Charles E. Curran, Robert E. Hunt, Dissent in and for the Church: Theologians and Humanae Vitae, page 66Here was the clearest statement yet of the “Magisteriology” of the dissenting theologians: the teaching of Humanae Vitae was not in fact morally binding, and it was the great task of theologians to help ordinary laypeople to understand this.
2015, Peter M. Mitchell, The Coup at Catholic University: The 1968 Revolution in American Catholic Education, →ISBN
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