If anyone says and holds that the soul of the Lord pre-existed, and was united to God the Word before His incarnation and birth from the Virgin, let him be anathema.Ģ05 Can. If anyone says or holds that the souls of men pre-existed, as if they were formerly minds and holy powers, but having received a surfeit of beholding the Divinity, and having turned towards the worse, and on this account having shuddered (apopsycheisas) at the love of God, in consequence being called souls (psychae) and being sent down into bodies for the sake of punishment, let him be anathema.Ģ04 Can. Denz 203-211 is useful as a summary and a helpful list of specific differences between Catholicism and competing systems.Ģ03 Can.

The following quotation from Denzinger 203-211 is from Pope Vigilius in 537AD containing anathemas (ie condemnations) of principle dogmas of Origenism. Denzinger has been updated and expanded several times since it was first commissioned by Pope Pius IX, circa 1854 A.D. The quotations are numbered, and often referenced by 'Denzinger #' by many theologians even outside of Roman Catholicism, and the work is often referred to simply as Denzinger for short.

Henry Denzinger's Sources of Catholic Dogma (Enchiridion symbolorum, definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum) ( online text) is a compilation of quotations from Church Councils, Popes, Bishops and significant leaders that are foundational to the Roman Catholic Magisterium.

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