By Georges Florovsky
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This does not mean that we oppose Scripture to experi- I The Catholicity of the Church 49 ence. On the contrary, it means that we unite them in the same manner in which they were united from the beginning. We must not think that all we have said denies history. On the contrary, history is recognized in all its sacred realism. As contrasted with outward historical testimony, we put forward no subjective religious experience, no solitary mystical consciousness, not the experience of separate believers, but the integral, living experience of the Catholic Church, catholic experience, and Church life.
This would be a case of acute psychologism, and in theology there is even less place for it than in philosophy. " Catholic experience can be expressed even by the few, even by single confessors of faith; and this is quite sufficient. " The sacred dignity of the Council lies not in the number of members representing their Churches. A large "general" council may prove itself to be a "council of robbers" {latrocinium), or even of apostates. And the ecclesia s par s a often convicts it of its nullity by silent opposition.
The liberty of the Church is shackled by an abstract biblical standard for the sake of setting free individual consciousness from the spiritual demands enforced by the experience of the Church. This is a denial of catholicity, a destruction of catholic consciousness; this is the sin of the Reformation. "34 If we declare Scripture to be self-sufficient, we only expose it to subjective, arbitrary interpretation, thus cutting it away from its sacred source. Scripture is given to us in tradition. It is the vital, crystallizing centre.