The Role of the “Servant of the Servants of God” and the Roman Catholic Dogma of Papal Infallibility
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Within Roman Catholicism today, there are competing accounts of what the dogma of papal infallibility promulgated at Vatican I means and does not mean. This paper contends that it is by taking stock of what is best among current mainstream Catholic interpretations of the dogma that Orthodox theology can be most fruitful in its own contribution to the still unclarified question of what, if anything, papal infallibility has to do with the role of the bishop of Rome as “the servant of the servants of God”. Reflections of Sergei Bulgakov and Hans Urs von Balthasar, among other recent theologians, will be compared.
