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Antinomies
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
(Greek: anti, against; nomos, law)
In his classic analysis of the historical significance of the Catholic Church, Charles Stanton Devas enumerates and explains away ten of its apparent contradictions or inconsistencies: The Church
- appears in opposition to intellectual civilization and yet to foster it
- appears in opposition to material civilization and yet to foster it
- represents a religion of sorrow. and yet of gladness; teaches a morality which is austere and yet joyful
- appears the opponent and yet the support of the State; its rival and yet its ally
- upholds the equality of men and yet the inequality of property and power
- is full of scandals and yet all holy; proclaims a law at once difficult and yet easy
- upholds and yet opposes religious freedom and liberty of conscience
- is one and yet Christendom has ever been divided
- is ever the same and yet ever changing
- is ever being defeated and yet ever victorious.
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Entry for 'Antinomies'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/a/antinomies.html. 1910.