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Sacred Theology has a relationship with the
magisterium of the Church and with the whole community of
Christians. It functions primarily as a mediator in some way
between the faith of the Church and its magisterium. and with
appreciating those insights, expressions, those questions and
tendencies which the Holy Spirit promotes among the people of God.
By appropriate scientific methods, theology ought to examine this
faith as it is practised and formulated, so that it may conform to
the work of God and the doctrinal traditions handed on faithfully
by the Church in order to propose solutions to those questions
which arise from its encounter with daily life, with history and
with humanity’s striving after truth. In this way theology will
assist the magisterium always to enlighten and guide the Church – a
magisterium which is never above the word of God but its
servant.
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