magisteriology

English

Etymology

magisterium +‎ -ology

Noun

magisteriology (uncountable)

1. (Roman Catholicism, rare) Theology of the magisterium, i.e. the teaching authority of the church.
   • 1970, Charles E. Curran, Robert E. Hunt, Dissent in and for the Church: Theologians and Humanae Vitae‎^[1], page 66:

     These studies have not pointed out these errors and inadequacies in order to discredit the hierarchical magisterium but rather to make possible a realistic magisteriology that will properly reflect the true nature of the teaching and witnessing of the Church.

   • 1980, Daniel C. Maguire, “The Encyclopedia of Bioethics”, in Theological Studies, volume 41, number 4, →DOI, page 757:

     It is also a necessary corrective today for the absolute tutiorism [rigorism] implicit in much of the oracular magisteriology which still abides at every level of the church.

   • 2015, Peter M. Mitchell, The Coup at Catholic University: The 1968 Revolution in American Catholic Education‎^[2], →ISBN:

     Here was the clearest statement yet of the “Magisteriology” of the dissenting theologians: the teaching of Humanae Vitae was not in fact morally binding, and it was the great task of theologians to help ordinary laypeople to understand this.