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Pope Pius V on Divine plurality & the unseen realm

1504 – 1572 · ROMAN CATHOLIC
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Searched in the sources read for this figure and not found. A limit of the reading rather than a claim about the figure — a source not yet read could settle it.

THE POSITION

Nothing found. The question of what the other elohim of the Hebrew Bible are is not raised in the sections of the catechism read; its unseen world is angels and the devil with his evil spirits. The First Commandment section, where any treatment of the gods of the nations would sit, was not read for this question.

WHAT OTHERS HOLD HERE

Real created spiritual beings, ranked under Yahweh and holding delegated ruleJONATHAN EDWARDS · M. HEISER
Human judges or rulers addressed as gods by office, not by natureCALVIN · WILLIAM TYNDALE
Never posed as a question in these termsCHRYSOSTOM · IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA · SECOND LONDON BAPTIST CONFESSION · LUTHER · WILLIAM OF OCKHAM · JOHN DUNS SCOTUS · WESTMINSTER CONFESSION
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Michele Ghislieri, a Dominican friar and inquisitor, was pope from 1566 to 1572 and carried the Council of Trent's decrees into practice. Under his authority came the Roman Catechism (1566), the reformed Breviary (1568) and Missal (1570), and the bull Ex omnibus afflictionibus (1567) on the teaching of Michael Baius; he also named Thomas Aquinas a Doctor of the Church. He wrote little theology of his own, so this entry rests on what he promulgated: the Roman Catechism, read in the McHugh and Callan translation, a commission's work issued by his order, and the 1567 bull in Deferrari's translation of Denzinger.

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"Pope Pius V on Divine plurality & the unseen realm", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/pius-v/divine-plurality (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/pius-v/divine-plurality).

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