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What is a Dogma? - Edouard Le Roy
PUBLISHER’S PREFACE.
THE primary significance of a dogma is not its speculative content, but the speculative truth of dogma is expressed in terms of action.
Such is the proclamation of a Roman Catholic thinker which has evoked a lively discussion, and although his work has been placed on the Index, this has evidently been for other reasons than any connected with the charge of heresy. For this thesis defines the general concept of dogma in the expressions of the well-known philosophy of action originated by Maurice Blondel and published in his book L’action which appeared in 1893, and as far as we know his book was not placed on the Index. Perhaps,
writes Father E. Bernard Alio, O. P., "the thesis sketched by Le Roy is not so different, perhaps the divergencies are less in idea than in expression, in the significat itself than in the modus significandi" (Foi et système, Paris, Bloud et Cie., 180, 181), and this is confirmed by Le Roy himself in a footnote on page 70 of his Dogme et critique. A. Houtin in his history of Catholic modernism mentions the Rev. A. D. Sertillanges as expressing the same opinions in the referendum on Le Roy’s article on dogma as Father Alio, and so far as we can ascertain, their writings have not been placed on the Index. Further, for a book to be placed on the Index does not mean that it is condemned, but the authorities intend to say that for some reason hic et nunc the book is not to be generally read.
This article of M. Edouard Le Roy entitled Qu’est-ce qu’un dogme?
has even been looked upon with favor in some quarters by representative ecclesiastical authorities; and being of great importance, not only for Roman Catholicism, but also for Protestantism, yea generally for all religion, we take pleasure in rendering it accessible to English readers.
It first appeared in the French fortnightly journal La Quinzaine of April 16, 1905, where it was accompanied by an editorial note as follows: Without expressing any decision on our own part with regard to the opinions of M. Le Roy it seems to us both interesting and useful to take a text from his work by which to invite theologians to furnish the public with the elucidation he asks for. Hence we address a special invitation to all the authorized specialists in Catholic theology, to the professors of our liberal universities and of the larger seminaries, to religious orders, and to the priests.
The invitation was eagerly accepted, and seven later numbers of La Quinzaine contained communications of varying importance on the subject. But these formed only a small part of the discussion raised by this striking article. Its publication was followed by a vast array of controversial writings which continued with increasing violence throughout an entire year. Twenty or more other journals opened their pages to the subject; not only such distinctly clerical journals as Etudes, Revue thomiste, Revue du clergé français, La Croix, etc., but also general philosophical reviews, La Pensée contemporaine, Revue de philosophie, and such liberal journals as La Justice sociale, Le Peuple français, and La Vérité française. And not only these religious and critical periodicals devoted their pages to the subject but a well-organized opposition to the offending article rushed into print through the daily press.
Still the question which the author put to the clergy in deference to them as being officially charged with the instruction of the people did not receive a satisfactory answer. Many heaped M. Le Roy with malicious calumnies, and many honestly misunderstood him. Many too misjudged him because they knew of the article only through garbled reports or hostile criticism. He therefore considered it necessary to put the article in permanent form, and so he published it in a book entitled Dogme et critique (in the series Etudes de philosophie et de critique religieuse with Librairie Bloud et Cie.) together with his published replies to the most important of his adversaries, a careful bibliography of the controversy and a more detailed development of the most significant points of his thesis in fourteen brief additional chapters.
Religion is a practical affair, and its main purpose is to serve us as a guide through life. Religion as a sentiment is practically universal and we may consider it to be innate. It is a pampathy
or all-feeling which produces in every individual a deep-felt longing to be