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> No, it just claims that human souls are created differently than animal souls That's... not much different than what I said (which was that humans are extra
by bloaf 1y ago
> No, it just claims that human souls are created differently than animal souls
That's... not much different than what I said (which was that humans are extra special)? I think it was in the early 1900s that the church Magisterium finally said that human souls belonged to different "orders" than plant and animal souls. And hey, wouldn't you know it, but the "orders" spelled out by the Magisterium broke exactly along the lines Aquinas laid out in the Summa. That's why I singled him out.
Re evolution:
The church excommunicated at least one scientist for early work on evolution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorio_Chil_y_Naranjo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorio_Chil_y_Naranjo
- 90s_dev 1y ago> I think it was in the early 1900s that the church Magisterium finally said that human souls belonged to different "orders" than plant and animal souls Or you could go back to Genesis 2:7 and countless other Biblical passages. This isn't about the Church, it's just a core tenet of Christianity. > The church excommunicated at least one scientist for early work on evolution Because he followed Lamarck and Darwin, a vague deist and an agnostic. For a prominent scholar who claimed to be Catholic, excommunication was probably the correct course of action to avoid the scandal of confusing Catholics. This had nothing to do with theistic evolution, which neither of them believed in But theistic evolution just says that maybe God used natural processes to create the physical bodies of the original humans, apart from their souls which are created individually and instantly for each person. This was conceded even by St. Augustine as a possibility.