The Vatican Declaration Of 1972 Christ Incarnation

Briefing: The 1972 Vatican Declaration on the Incarnation and Trinity and its Prophetic Fulfillment in Alex Enrique Campain This briefing analyzes two sources. The first is "Safeguarding Belief in Incarnation and Trinity Mysteries," a 1972 Declaration from the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (referred to as "the Declaration"). The second, "The Vatican Declaration Of Who Is Jesus Christ.pdf," presents an interpretation of this Declaration, specifically linking it to the birth of Alex Enrique Campain (AEC). I. The 1972 Vatican Declaration: "Safeguarding Belief in Incarnation and Trinity Mysteries" A. Purpose and Core Mandate: The Declaration was issued by the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1972 to "reaffirm and to safeguard the belief" in the mysteries of the Incarnation and the Most Holy Trinity against "some recent errors" that were undermining these fundamental tenets of Revelation. It emphasizes that these mysteries are "the innermost substance of Revelation" and "the source of light for the lives of Christ's faithful." B. Key Doctrinal Reaffirmations: Catholic Belief in the Incarnation of the Son of God (Jesus Christ): Nature of Christ: Jesus Christ is affirmed as "the only-begotten Son of God," "true God from true God," and "consubstantial with the Father." He was "begotten of the Father before all the ages" in his divinity and "begotten in time of the Virgin Mary" in his humanity. One Person, Two Natures: Drawing on the Councils of Constantinople, Chalcedon, and Lateran IV, the Declaration states that Christ is "one and the same Christ the Son of God a ‘person' (hypostasis)," possessing both divine and human "natures." These two natures "together belong, without confusion, unalterably, undividedly and inseparably, to the one person of our Redeemer." This "immutable truth" has been "reverently preserved" and "propounded for belief in a more explicit way" throughout the Church's history. Catholic Belief in the Most Holy Trinity and the Holy Spirit: The Declaration asserts that "Once the mystery of the divine and eternal person of Christ the Son of God is abandoned, the truth respecting the Most Holy Trinity is also undermined." It reaffirms the belief in "the Holy Spirit who proceeds eternally from the Father and the Son, or from the Father through the Son." Quoting the Creed of Constantinople, it states the Holy Spirit is "Lord and giver of life… who together with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified." From Lateran IV, it reiterates belief in "one only true God… Father and Son and Holy Spirit: three persons indeed, but one essence…: the Father proceeding from none, the Son from the Father alone and the Holy Spirit equally from both, without beginning, always, and without end." This Revelation provides "some knowledge of God's intimate life, in which 'the Father who generates, the Son who is generated, and the Holy Spirit who proceeds' are 'consubstantial and co-equal, alike omnipotent and co-eternal'." C. Condemnation of Recent Errors: Errors Regarding the Son of God (Incarnation): It condemns opinions that deny "that the Son of God subsists from all eternity in the mystery of the Godhead, distinct from the Father and the Holy Spirit." It rejects the abandonment of the "notion of the one person of Jesus Christ begotten in his divinity of the Father before all the ages and begotten in his humanity of the Virgin Mary in time." Crucially, it condemns the assertion "that the humanity of Christ existed not as being assumed into the eternal person of the Son of God but existed rather of itself as a person." It also rejects the idea that "the mystery of Jesus Christ consists only in the fact that God, in revealing himself, was present in the highest degree in the human person Jesus," and that Jesus can be called God "by reason of the fact that in what they call his human person God is supremely present." The Declaration states, "Those who think in this way are far removed from the true belief in Christ." Errors Regarding the Most Holy Trinity and the Holy Spirit: It opposes the opinion that "Revelation has left us uncertain about the eternity of the Trinity, and in particular about the eternal existence of the Holy Spirit as a person in God distinct from the Father and the Son." D. Preservation and Exposition: The Declaration emphasizes that the truths it outlines are "immutable truth of the Catholic faith." While acknowledging the Church's duty to continually examine and expound these mysteries "in up to date terminology," it stresses that "diligent care must be taken that these profound mysteries do not be interpreted in a meaning other than that in which 'the Church has understood and understands them'." Undermining these core mysteries would "falsif[y]... the rest of the treasure of Revelation." E. Role of Pastors and Theologians: It states that "it pertains to the Pastors of the Church to see that there is unity in ...