. . . Nothing that can claim to be truly of the Church need shrink from the sober light of “scholasticism.” No matter how free and individual it may be in its first expression, if it seeks universal acceptance, it will be under constraint to set up a school and therefore to become the teaching of a school. Fear of Scholasticism is the mark of a false prophet. The true prophet will be ready to submit his message to this test too. (CD, I.1 p 274)
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