There were rumors in 1964 during the fourth centenary celebration of the birth of Galileo Galilei that the pope would issue a document offi. cially exonerating him and admitting the Church's error in calling his ideas heretical. But was such a move really feasible? Has his doctrine to this day been fully accepted hy all quarters of the Church? Does not the magis· terium still favor the Ptole· maic notion of scholasticism that man is the center of the The author explores the universe? It certainly would effect contemporary seem so, for from this per· philosophy and psychology spective alone can all things seem absolutely static and is having on our theology unchangeable. Motion in the of grace. microcosm is much too rapid for man to perceive, while + that in the macrocosm seems much too slow. Only in the CHARLES R. MEYER world of man's abstractions can there be a universe with· + out movement. Since apparently it has not yet even fully accepted the ideas of Galileo, naturally it is impossible for the Church to enter into a meaningful dialogue with today's intellectuals. They are totally committed followers of Einstein and Darwin. They see the very substance of the universe to be motion and proc· ess. They hold the truth relating to it to be contextual and not immutably absolute. DOCTRINAL SURVEY V
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