The Sources of Catholic Dogma

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CORRIGENDA
(The Sources ofCatholic Dogma)
Page 31, number 74, read: "is true God" for ""is not true God."
Page 49, number 111 a from lines 3 through 6 read: "'that the Word, in an ineffable
and inconceivable manner, having hypostatically united to Himself flesh animated by a
rational soul, became Man and was called the Son of Man," also lines 11 through 14,
read: ""For it was no ordinary man who was first born of the Holy Virgin and upon
whom the Word afterwards descended; but being united from the wornb itself He is said
to have undergone fleshly birth, claiming as His own the birth of His own flesh."
Page 61, number 148, second column, line 15, read: ""nowhere removed" for
"removed."
Page 87, number 218, read: "but not as if the word of God" for "'but as if the Word
of God."
Page 87, number 219, substitute the following for the first three lines: "If anyone
speaking on two natures does not confess that our Lord Jesus Christ is acknowledged as
in His Divinity as well as in His Manhood, in order that by this he may signify the dif­
ference of the natures in which". Also the following for the last six lines but one: ""if he
accepts such an expression as this with regard to the mystery of Christ, or, acknowledg­
ing a number of natures in the same one Lord our Jesus Christ the Word of God made
11esh, but does not accept the difference of these [natures] of which He is also com­
posed, which is not destroyed by the union (for one is from both, and through one both),
but in this uses number in such a way"
Page 102, number 257. Insert after ""Jesus Christ" and before "'consubstantial": '''con­
substantial with God and His Father according to His divine nature and"
Page 117, number 296. Insert in line 5 after Holy Spirit: ""just as God is the Father,
God is the Son, God is the Holy Spirit"; also read: ""which according to substance" for
"'according to substance which"
Page 194, line 3, read: "voiding" for ""voicing"
Page 219, number 691, for lines 12 through 16, read: ""And since all that the Father
has, the Father himself, in begetting, has given to His only begotten Son, with the
exception of Fatherhood, the very fact that the Holy Spirit proceeds fronl the Son, the
Son hinlself has from the Father eternally, by whom He was begotten also eternally".
Page 225, number 703, add after '''one eternity" ""and all these things are one"
Page 250, number 797, read: ""does 110t do nothing at all" for "'does nothing at all"
Page 259, nUlnber 818, "'we flee to the mercy of God" for ""we flee the mercy
of God"
Page 316, number 1096, read: ""intended" for ""understand", and add ""alone" after
""predestined"
Page 457, number 1839, read: ""by virtue of his supreme apostolic authority he
defines" for "in accord with his supreme apostolic authority he explains"; also ""possess­
es that infallibility" for "'operates with that infallibility"; also "His church be endowed"
for "His church be instructed", and "of themselves" for ""from himself"
Page 556, number 2164 read: '''it is permitted for exegetes to dispute freely" for ""it is
impossible etc."
Page 633, number 2302, last sentence, read: ""in no sense of the word historical", for
""in a sense of the word historical"
THE SOURCES OF

CATHOLIC DOGMA
Denzinger

THE SOURCES OF

CATHOLIC DOGMA

Translated by Roy J. Deferrari

from the Thirtieth Edition of

Henry Denzinger's Enchiridion Symbolorum

Loreto Publications
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This translation was made from the thirtieth edition of

Enchiridion Symbolorum, by I-Ienry Denzinger, revised by

Karl Rahner, S.J., published in 1954 by Herder & Co., Freiburg.

Dominic Hughes, O.P.
Censor Deputatus
c3JulpriulZttur

~ Patrick A. O'Boyle

Archbishop of Washington
April 25, 1955
ISBN: 1-930278-22-5
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Translator's Preface

WE present herewith an English version of Henry Denzinger's Enchi­
ridion Symbolorum, definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et
morum, a handbook of articles of faith and morals. It is to be noted that
Clement Bannwart, S.J., is responsible for the tenth edition, John Baptist
Umberg, S.J., for the 18th through the 20th, and Charles Rahner, S.J.,
for the 28th, 29th, and 30th editions.
Every effort has been made to present an accurate as well as a readable
translation. We have followed the basic principles usually accepted in
this age for producing scientific translations: close adherence to the orig­
inal in all matters pertaining to style, insofar as accuracy and smooth
English permit. It is our belief that such adherence to the original TNill
make not only for greater accuracy but for crispness and vitality in the
translation.
It is our hope that this work will increase among English-speaking
people both the knowledge of our faith and the appreciation of its con­
tinuity from the days of our Lord to our own times. Perhaps it is not
too much to hope that it will also bring out more sharply the role played
by the Fathers of the Church in the establishment and formulation of
the basic dogmas of the faith.
Certainly we do not wish that this English version replace the original
Latin and Greek, but we feel that there is great need of this translation
in the institutions of higher learning in English speaking countries, where
unfortunately a working knowledge of Greek no longer exists, and a
practical knowledge of Latin is fast disappearing, but where, most fortu·
nately, a desire for a systematic knowledge of theology is increasing daily.
In fact, it may be said that an intense desire for a knowledge of theology
is characteristic not only of the students of our institutions of higher edu­
cation but in general of persons of cultivated taste in our age.
I wish to thank the Very Reverend Joseph C. Fenton, professor of dog­
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tit Translator's Preface
matic theology at The Catholic University of America for first suggest­
ing this task to me. I wish also to acknowledge assistance given me by
the Reverend Dominic Hughes, O.P., especially in the translation of the
Systematic Index; also the practical help of the following in the early part
of our work: Sister Mary Dorothea, S.S.N.D., of Mount Mary College,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Sister Mary Gratia, S.S.N.0., of the College of
Notre Dan1e of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland; Sister M. Kathleen,
O.S.B., of Donnelly College, Kansas City, Kansas; Sister M. La Sa­
lette, R.S.M., of St. Vincent's Acadenly, Savannah, Georgia; and Sister
Marie Carolyn, O.P., of The Catholic University of America.
Roy J. DEFERRARI
Catholic University of America
WashIngton, D.C.
General Index

(Chronological)
Translator's Preface . v

General Index (Chronological) Vll

Index of Signs XXXI

CREEDS
Nun1ber Page

I Most Ancient Forms of the Apostolic Creed 3

2 ff. The More Ancient (R) Western Form of the Apostolic

Creed 4

5 f. The More Recent (T) Western Form of the Apostolic

Creed 6

8 ff. The Eastern Form of the Apostolic Creed 8

13 f. The Creed of Epiphanius 9

15 f. Formula Called the "Faith of Damasus" . 10

17 f. Formula "The Merciful Trinity" II

19 ff. Creed of the Council of Toledo of the year 400 [and 447] 12

39 £. The Creed "Quicumque" IS

DOCUMENTS OF THE ROMAN PONTIFFS

AND OF THE COUNCILS

ST. CLEMENT I, go(? )-gg(?)
The Primacy of the Roman Pontiff .
19

The Hierarchy and the Status of the Laity 20

vii
tlUt General Index
ST. ZEPHYRINUS, 198(? )-217
resp. ST. CALLISTUS I, 217-222
42a The Incarnate Word . 20
42 The Absolving of Sins 21
ST. CORNELIUS I, 251-253
44 The Monarchical Constitution of the Church 21
45 The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy 22
ST. STEPHAN I, 254-257
46 f. The Baptism of Heretics 22
ST. DIONYSIUS, 259-268
48 ff. The Trinity and the Incarnation . 23
Council of Illiberi, between 300-306
52a The Indissolubility of Matrimony 24
52b f. The Celibacy of the Clergy 25
52d f. Baptism and Confirmation . 25
ST. SYLVESTER I, 314-335
Council of Arelas I, 314
S3 The Baptism of Heretics. 25
COUNCIL OF NICEA I, 32S
(Ecumenical I)
54 The Nicene Creed 26
55 ff. The Baptism of Heretics and the Viaticum of the Dying. 26
ST. JULIUS I, 337-352
S7a The Primacy of the Roman Pontiff 27
Council of Serdica, 343-344
57b ff. The Primacy of the Roman Pontiff 27
ST. DAMAsus I, 366-384
Council of Rome, 382
S8 fIe The Trinity and the Incarnation 3°
83 The Holy Spirit . 33
84 The Canon of Sacred Scripture 33
General Index tx
COUNCIL OF CONSTANTINOPLE I, 38I
(Ecumenical II)
85 Condemnation of Heretics . 34
86 The "Nicene-Constantinopolitan" Creed . 3S
ST. SIRICIUS, 384-398
The Primacy of the Roman Pontiff

The Baptism of Heretics

Christian Marriage .

The Celibacy of the Clergy

The Ordinations of Monks

The Virginity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Council of Carthage (III), 397
The Canon of the Sacred Scripture . 39
ST. ANASTASIUS I, 398-401
93 The Orthodoxy of the Pope Liberius .
ST. INNOCENT I, 401-417
94 The Baptism of Heretics 41
95 Reconciliation in the Moment of Death . 41
96 The Canon of the Holy Scripture and the Apocryphal Books 42
97 The Baptism of the Paulianists 42
98 The Minister of Confirmation . 42
99 The Minister of Extreme Unction 43
100 The Primacy and the Infallibility of the Roman Pontiff 44
ST. ZOSIMUS, 417-418
Council of Mileum II, 416

and Council of Carthage XVI, 418

101 ff. Original Sin and Grace . 44
1°9 The Primacy and the Infallibility of the Roman Pontiff 47
109a Original Sin 47
ST. BONIFACE I, 418-422
110 The Primacy and Infallibility of the Roman Pontiff
ST. CELESTINE I, 422-432
III Reconciliation in the Moment of Death