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704 BOOK REVIEWS looking hopefully to earlier forms of liturgy and ministry, as they are now being authorized, for a renewal of Christian life that will be comparable to that of the early Church. We should not be less mindful, he adds, of the early warnings against false prophets and teachers, and against schism and heresy. Today, as always, there is need of unity. The bishop is the center of unity around whom all the people of God should gather. He is the guardian of the tradition which began at the dawn of salvation history, and which took a new direction through the Apostles whose power each bishop receives through his sacramental ordination. This tradition, the author says, is meaured truly by the Roman Church of the West. This book may be read with great benefit by those who, dissatisfied with the past, are seeking a new Church which will be in touch with the trends of the times. It may also be helpful to those who, loving the past and hesitating to break with it, need to distinguish more clearly in Christian tradition what is essential and divinely ordained from what is human and historical. St. Peter's Rectory Cambridge, Mass. +THOMAS J. RILEY De Doctrina Concilii Vaticani Primi. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1969. Pp. 583. The Vatican Library is commemorating the centenary of Vatican I with this republication in an excellently printed volume of a number of doctrinal studies on the Dogmatic Constitutions Dei Filius and Pastor Aeternus. The editors, with the collaboration of R. Aubert, U. Betti, 0. F. M., and Msgr. Maccarone, offer six articles on Dei Filius and eleven on Pastor Aeternus, selections chosen for the research the authors made of the documents which prepared these Constitutions and for the witness they give to the theological effort which prepared for Vatican II in the light of Vatican I. Only four selections antedate the 1960's. The authors chosen indicate the quality of the choice: Kerrigan, Schlund, Aubert, Caudron, Nau, Paradis, Beaudoin, Betti, Dewan, Kasper, Hamer, Dominguez del Val, Torrell, Dejaifve, Thils, Chavasse. The subject matter of most of the articles turns on one or other of two topics: the relation of the episcopal college to the Roman Pontiff and the various facets of the Conciliar teaching on infallibility. Vatican II developed the work of the previous Council regarding the episcopal college and the primacy; it reaffirmed the dogmatic teaching on infallibility but went on to state the proportionate response due to the exercise of the ordinary magisterium of the Roman Pontiff and of the bishops, that is, the form of proclamation of truth that does not engage all the conditions for infallibilty as noted by Vatican I. BOOK REVIEWS 705 M. Caudron (Magistere Ordinaire et lnfallibilite Pontificale d'apres la Constitution "Dei Filius ") shows that, on the basis of Vatican I, it is impossible to draw a parallel between the ordinary magisterium of the Church and that of the Roman Pontiff. The term " ordinary and universal magisterium of the Church," a formula of Vatican I, had a long and tortuous Conciliar history. P. Nau (Le Magistere Pontifical Ordinaire au Premier Concile du Vatican) is constrained to correct Caudron's understanding , through his use of the distinction: Ecclesia coadunata and dispersa, of the nature and guarantee of this magisterium. The infallibility of the ordinary and universal magisterium of the Church is the consensio praedicationis praesentis totius magisterii Ecclesiae united with its head. Nau does agree that the definition of papal infallibility in Vatican I is so restricted that it forbids a direct application of the formula to the ordinary magisterium of the pope. However, although the texts of the Constitutions furnish no positive argument in favor of the infallibility of the ordinary papal magisterium, they cannot be invoked to exclude it. The argument from silence of this Council does not prove that the personal magisterium of the pope could not be a rule of faith. The Conciliar Fathers were concerned to show only that, besides the solemn judgment, there is another mode of presentation of revealed truth: the ordinary and universal magisterium of the Church. These articles throw light on the discussions in the Council...

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