The issue of the motive for the Incarnation has never been formally defined, but we can find at least a presumption of the Scotist perspective in many important
magisterial texts, and an almost overwhelming wealth of opinions in its favour among the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, (for a comprehensive discussion of the sources see Dean, Maximilian Mary, A Primer on the Absolute Primacy of Christ, Academy of the Immaculate, 2006).
Rather, it follows straight from his misinterpretation of Aquinas on marriage, a misreading that continues in his use of various
magisterial texts.
This magisterial text faced what amounts to the direct contrast of Pelagianism which exalted human endeavour and Lutheranism which considered humanity purely passive and grace «like some brilliant cloak of gold thrown over the human corpse by God» (Karl Adam: The Spirit of Catholicism ch.11).
Not exact matches
Griffiths searches
magisterial documents, and he finds that the term «the limbo of the Fathers» occurs only in a
text by Pius VI from 1784.
His point seems to be that since any interpretation of the Bible must be communicated with words, the same interpretative problems that pertain to the biblical
text must inevitably reappear at the level of the
magisterial utterances.