Sources of Catholic Dogma

[EcceNovaFacioOmni]

Does anyone have this? I just got one and it has a TON of documents and information packed into it. It's a classic.

[Era Might]

Did you get the actual Denziger edition, in the original languages, or the Deferrari translation?

I've wanted to get this for a while now. Haven't gotten around to it.

[phatcatholic]

i heard the english translation we have is inadequate.....

[EcceNovaFacioOmni]

It's in english. It was published in like 1957. What's wrong with the translation?

[phatcatholic]

i think i remember reading that it wasn't a very accurate translation in some places, that the best translation is actually in french, or somethin like that. i'll try to find the article......

[Era Might]

[quote name='phatcatholic' date='Nov 3 2005, 01:17 AM']i think i remember reading that it wasn't a very accurate translation in some places, that the best translation is actually in french, or somethin like that. i'll try to find the article......
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Are you thinking maybe of Sources of Catholic Dogma by Ott? I've seen criticism of that.

I'm not sure which book he has. Is it the Ott book, or Denziger?

[phatcatholic]

ya know, i think i was thinking of Ott, my bad....

[EcceNovaFacioOmni]

I've got Denzinger. It's sweet.

[phatcatholic]

[quote name='phatcatholic' date='Nov 3 2005, 12:17 AM']i think i remember reading that it wasn't a very accurate translation in some places, that the best translation is actually in french, or somethin like that. i'll try to find the article......
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here is the critique of Ott's [i]Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma[/i] that i was thinking of when i made the above post. i just found it and i thought that a few people may be interested in it.

A CRITIQUE
by Fr. Camillus Hay, O.F.M.
OF THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF
FUNDAMENTALS OF CATHOLIC DOGMA[1]
by Dr Ludwig Ott
[url="http://jloughnan.tripod.com/critott.htm"]http://jloughnan.tripod.com/critott.htm[/url]

[N/A Gone]

Im not the biggest fan of the ott book...he has a bad concept of open theism in it, influenced more by its haters than the actual theologians involved

[phatcatholic]

haha, of course you would say that!

[N/A Gone]

Im being very serious. (*scary thought this late)

p.c. think of it this way, if someone had a book about catholics and they were unsure about transubstantiation so they ask Jack Chick about it cause he posts the cute lil comics.

thats what ott did with open theism. I have a copy of that page and it makes me sad

[phatcatholic]

i'm not sure if that analogy can be applied. afterall, jack chick is definitely not an authority on catholicism. he's not even catholic. but ott can surely be considered one.

[N/A Gone]

Ott isnt an authority on an evangelical based doctrine like open theism and the perspective he takes is that of a Bruce ware...whom has done the same negative to it as Chick does, but without the fun cartoons..

so I stand by my words.