Dei Verbum, Speculative vs. Historical Truths, Tradition as the Primary Source of Revelation

Dr. Rafael Xavier Gonzalez The Church has always believed in the essential unity of Tradition and Scripture, a belief that was officially defined by the Councils of Trent and Vatican I. Yet let us not forget the infamous actions of the Modernists to diminish and outright deny this, manifested in the Since the original schema was not ecumenical enough according to the Modernist prelates, a newly written schema replaced it, which is was schema of Going back to Edward Schillebeeckx, his absurd optimism, typical of the Modernists, led him to overshadow, if not deny, the source of Revelation, namely, Now according to Schillebeeckx, both speculative truths and historical truths can be at odds, as if a sort of Schillebeeckx gives some examples from his aforementioned book: “The original schema on the eastern church contained the sentence: ‘The Catholic Church has always held the Eastern Churches in high regard’. As a speculative truth this is correct, i.e. the existence of the universal church …