Talk:The Evolution of God
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Evolution of dogmas
[edit]If anybody wants add additional information about the concept of evolution of God, a good place to start would be to look at the modernist controversy at the beginning of the 20th century, which notably featured a dispute about the evolution of dogmas, a notion defended by priests Alfred Loisy and George Tyrell.
Pope Pius X found this teaching to be a sewer of heresies and promptly denounced it in the encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis. Hence, the Catholic Church has never condemned Darwin and his theory of natural evolution on a purely scientific basis, but has been critical of evolution when it is presented as a form of philosophical monism or pantheism, by which evolution would also apply to Catholic doctrines and dogmas.
These doctrines and dogmas are taught as a matter of divine revelation, meaning that they are not subject to change, since revelation is held to be an immediate actual event, and not a type of gradual process.