Providentissimus Deus | encyclical by Leo XIII | Britannica (original) (raw)

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censure of Loisy

• In Alfred Firmin Loisy
  …first censure, Leo XIII’s encyclical Providentissimus Deus (on biblical scholarship), he refused to bow to this latest pressure and was excommunicated in 1908.
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discussed in biography

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  In Leo XIII: Pontificate
  In 1893 the encyclical Providentissimus Deus (“The Most Provident God”), now outdated but originally a pioneering work, defined in fairly broad-minded manner the principles on which Catholics should interpret the Bible. In several instructions he recommended that church and state live together in peace within the framework of modern…
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