The fruit of Vatican II after 60 years – the transformation of the Catholic Church into a New Age pseudo-church /Part seven/
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Historical-critical theology came like a Trojan horse from liberal Protestantism into the Catholic Church. As early as the beginning of the 20th century, the spiritual background behind HCT gave rise to a spiritual movement in the Catholic Church called Modernism. St Pius X issued the encyclical “Pascendi Dominici gregis” in 1907, through which this spirit of death and atheism was exposed and the Catholic Church officially broke with it. Approximately half of the professors and students were expelled from the theological faculties and seminaries, and the Church experienced a revival for a few years through a living relationship with Christ.
After Vatican II, however, the spirit of modernism returned to the Church. Through the theological faculties, it affected most priests and religious and most of the Church. Gradually it caused a complete disintegration of Catholic teaching and a mass apostasy from the Catholic Church. This spirit behind the modernism of HCT is essentially atheistic, separating and destroying everything spiritually alive in the Church.
HCT does not use objective information. And if it does use it, then only as a trap to embrace a new mindset and a new spirit, the atheistic one! The Letter to the Romans (Rom 1:18-24), which reveals the spiritual roots of sodomy, convicts the Second Vatican Council of opening the door to both the heresies of modernism through atheistic HCT and an idolatrous regard for paganism through Nostra aetate. This spirit of atheism and paganism is the cause of the invasion of amorality and the ecclesiastical legalization of sodomy in the declaration Fiducia supplicans.
Six selected heresies of HCT condemned by Saint Pius X
Modernism and HCT preach the following heresy: “The divinity of Jesus Christ is not proved from the Gospels!” (Error No. 27)[1]
Jesus cast out demons, healed the sick, raised the dead, and performed other miracles, died a redemptive death, and rose from the dead to prove that He was the Son of God. The whole Gospel and the whole New Testament is a testimony that Jesus is true God and true man, the only Saviour.
Error No. 29: “It is permissible to grant that the Christ of history is far inferior to the Christ Who is the object of faith.”
This error, although condemned by Pope St Pius X, is currently proclaimed again by HCT with a brazen assurance in all theological faculties.
Error No. 31: “The doctrine concerning Christ taught by Paul, John, and the Councils of Nicaea, Ephesus and Chalcedon is not that which Jesus taught but that which the Christian conscience conceived concerning Jesus.”
This is both a lie and again an error condemned by St Pius X. The Apostles were eyewitnesses to the life of Christ. The Apostle John writes: “That which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched – this we proclaim.” (1Jn 1:1) The Council of Nicaea in 325 confirmed the truth of the testimony of the Gospels and the New Testament. It confessed the fundamental truth of the faith, namely that Christ is true God and true man, and condemned the error of Arius, who denied the deity of Christ. The Council of Ephesus condemned the Nestorian heresy. The Council of Chalcedon in 451 reaffirmed the fundamental truth of the Gospel that Jesus is true God and true man.
Error No. 16: “The narrations of John are not properly history, but a mystical contemplation of the Gospel, lacking historical truth concerning the mystery of salvation.”
Again a lie and a condemned error. The Apostle John had no mystical dreams; he is an eyewitness of Christ’s life, death and resurrection. The so-called Johannine epistles and Johannine theology is an artificial product of HCT, intended to denigrate the author as well as the binding nature of the Gospel of John and his epistles.
Error No. 36: “The Resurrection of the Saviour is not properly a fact of the historical order. It is a fact neither demonstrated nor demonstrable which the Christian conscience gradually derived.”
This article was already condemned by St Pius X, but today the error continues to be proclaimed through HCT. The reality is that the Resurrection of Christ is a historical event. Jesus appeared several times immediately after His resurrection, both to individuals and collectively to the Apostles who were gathered in the Upper Room. This was repeated a week later when the doubting apostle Thomas was present. Christ then appeared to the apostles at the Sea of Galilee, where they ate and talked with Him, and He continued to appear to them in other places in Galilee over a period of 40 days. The apostles proclaimed the truth of Christ’s ransom death and His resurrection. They gave their lives as credible witnesses for this truth. Christ’s resurrection is the proof of His deity and the evidence of the authenticity and validity of His teachings. Only hardened unbelievers, which unfortunately include HCT theologians, can question or deny this fundamental truth.
Error No. 12: “If he wishes to apply himself usefully to Biblical studies, the exegete must first put aside all preconceived opinions about the supernatural origin of Sacred Scripture and interpret it the same as any other merely human document.”
This error was condemned, but it is now being proclaimed in all its fullness through HCT in all theological faculties. What is the Church’s teaching on Scripture? God is the author of the Holy Scriptures; God inspired the human authors of these sacred books. The God-inspired books teach the truth and are authoritative. The Scriptures are to be read in the living tradition of the whole Church, as they have been read by generations of Christians and saints. Scripture cannot be read through the glasses of HCT pseudo science!
The Holy Spirit is not only the true author, but also the interpreter of the Bible! The HCT confuses the role of the Holy Spirit, but this is nothing new, “for the devil also takes the form of an angel of light, and so do his children” (2Cor 11:13-15). There is indeed a spirit behind HCT, but it is not the Holy Spirit, it is the spirit of lies and death! He manifested himself as the first exegete back in Eden and the fruit of his exegesis was death! He also explained the Scriptures to the Lord Jesus in the wilderness. Jesus said to him: “Go away, Satan!” (Mt 4:10) And the same is true of all HCT exegetes with their so-called scientific method!
In her book “Original or Fake”, Prof E. Linnemann says: “Men rejected God’s Word as revealed truth and opted for the false wisdom of this world, which is essentially atheistic, even if it pretends to be devout and mouths the name of God. This method is not scientific, but demagogic. The demagogic assumption, which must be accepted as evidence without criticism, is the guiding principle of HCT. God’s Word says to us that God controls the destinies of the nations; so-called critical historiography refuses from the very start even to consider the possibility that God has worked in actual history. And then this atheistic, anti-Christian pseudo science is recognized by historical-critical theology as furnishing the only proper access to God’s Word, so everyone who wishes to be regarded as theologically educated should endorse this outlook.” That is the height of insolence and a crime!
Professor Linnemann continues: “In order to receive an academic degree as an expert in things relating to God, I must, therefore, make the decision to make room in my thinking for atheism. I will be kindly permitted to retain my pious feelings, but my thinking must follow the pattern of the atheistic guiding principle: ut si Deus non daretur (as if there were no God). That is perversion!
Both historical-critical theology and critical historiography have their basis in deception. Science is, accordingly, not the synonym for truth but rather for rebellion against God which suppresses the truth in unrighteousness. The individual facts which it unearths are marred and distorted by lies.”
So much for the supposed scientific nature of HCT. We have listed several modernist heresies condemned by St Pius X. These heresies have been revived since the Second Vatican Council and are promoted in all theological schools.
Professor Eta Linnemann’s profoundly authentic testimony throws a clear light on the heretical letter, methodology and lying spirit of HCT. As a student of the leading exponent of historical-critical theology, Rudolf Bultmann, she is fully qualified to comment truthfully and critically on this pseudo-scientific method. Unfortunately, the Second Vatican Council opened the door for this spirit of modernism to penetrate into the heart of the Church, using the historical-critical method as a battering ram to achieve her self-destruction. Therefore, Vatican II, with its heresy of modernism and its syncretism with paganism, must be condemned. Otherwise the renewal of the Church will not take place.
+ Elijah
Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
+ Methodius OSBMr + Timothy OSBMr
Secretary Bishops
15 February 2025
[1] We present six of the 65 modernist heretical theses listed in the decree Lamentabili sane exitu of St Pius X.