@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt9m0w0h.8, ISBN = {9781451484465}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9m0w0h.8}, abstract = {A helpful way into the topic, I find, is to formulate the following question: In what sense does the dogma of the assumption rest on evidence? In the years of build-up to the proclamation of the dogma in 1950, Catholic theologians differed about this question in interesting ways. We might do worse than to begin from here.On one influential account, the assumption doctrine could be dogmatized—in other words, defined as a truth of faith which all the faithful are obliged to hold—simply because in a certain way it is an inference from other truths in the doctrinal}, bookauthor = {Aidan Nichols}, booktitle = {There Is No Rose: The Mariology of the Catholic Church}, pages = {89--110}, publisher = {Augsburg Fortress, Publishers}, title = {The Assumption}, year = {2015} }