New Catholic Encyclopedia -1967- Volume 14 Page 299 -

Page 299 draws a sharp, pre-modernist line: The teaching authority of the Church (the Magisterium) does not sit above the Word of God, but serves it. For a mid-century Catholic, this was a crucial clarification against the charge that the Pope could just "make up" new dogmas.

The page discusses how Revelation is not merely a book dropped from heaven, but a living reality. It balances the Protestant Sola Scriptura with the Catholic Duo Fontes (two sources: Scripture and Tradition). But interestingly, writing in 1967, the author is already hedging. They acknowledge that Scripture and Tradition are not two separate "containers" of truth, but a single flowing stream. new catholic encyclopedia -1967- volume 14 page 299

Today, I opened Volume 14: Pope to Revelation . And I turned specifically to page 299. Page 299 draws a sharp, pre-modernist line: The

What strikes me most about this particular page is its tension. You can feel the author trying to write with the certitude of the 1950s while the windows of the 1960s are blowing open. The language is still scholastic, dense, and Latinized. But the subject is dynamic: Revelation as an encounter with a Person, not just an assent to a fact. It balances the Protestant Sola Scriptura with the

If you have a set of the 1967 New Catholic Encyclopedia gathering dust in a rectory library or a university stacks, do not treat it as obsolete. It is a photograph of the Church’s mind exactly 59 years ago—trying to articulate ancient truths in a language that had just been told it was allowed to breathe again.

Flipping the Page on Vatican II: A Look at Volume 14, Page 299 (1967)