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Paul Collins (born March 1940 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian historian, broadcaster and writer currently based in Canberra. Collins has a master's degree in theology from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in history from the Australian National University (ANU). He has taught church history and theology in Australia, the United States and Pacific countries and worked as a Catholic parish priest in Sydney and Hobart. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at the ANU and the Ethel Hayton Visiting Fellow in Religion and Society at the University of Wollongong. Collins has written for many Australian newspapers and magazines as well as for the ''The Tablet'', the ''National Catholic Reporter'' in the United States and for several Catholic magazines in Germany. Collins is a lifelong supporter of the Richmond Football Club in Melbourne. ==Doctrinal controversy== The Vatican’s investigation centred on his 1997 book ''Papal Power'', which was said to imply that “a true and binding revelation” does not exist; to deny that the Church of Christ is identified with the Catholic Church and to deny the doctrine of papal infallibility. Collins was further accused of holding the view that a teaching, to be considered church doctrine, must be approved through the ''sensus fidelium'' - the "sense of the people" - as well as by bishops and theologians. In March 2001 he resigned from his role as a Catholic priest due to a dispute with the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith over his book, ''Papal Power''. In explaining his resignation, Collins cited the increasing rigidity and sectarianism of the Vatican, stating that the August 2000 declaration ''Dominus Iesus'' expressed “a profoundly anti-ecumenical spirit at odds with the sense of God’s grace permeating the whole cosmos”. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Collins (Australian religious writer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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