The softest being of , whose views according to G.K. Chesterton were that doctrine developed the way a puppy develops into a dog: not changing and compromising into a cat but "becoming more doggy not less."[9]

Aquinas

Ad fontes may be contrasted with various views of the development of doctrine:


It may be noted that promoters of ad fontes did not necessarily deny the validity of the developments of dogma: notably Erasmus, who saw clarifications of doctrine (by Church Councils and the Pope) as a necessary part of their peace-keeping and uniting role[note 1] that did not negate the wisdom of ad fontes.

Ab initio

List of Latin phrases

a 20th-century theological movement that emphasized returning to the sources using the French term ressourcement

Nouvelle théologie

J.D. Tracy, Ad Fontes: The Humanist Understanding of Scripture as Nourishment for the Soul, in Christian Spirituality II: High Middle Ages and Reformation, (1987), editor Jill Raitt

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