http://www.sensustraditionis.org/webaudio/Impediments/Self.mp3
Another decade, please after you listen to this. Another great talk from Father Ripperger!
One of the great points on this talk is immanentism. Here is another source on this sin.
Father John Hardon, in writing on the subject of immanentist
apologetics, refers to it as “A method of establishing the credibility
of the Christian faith by appealing to the subjective satisfaction that
the faith gives to the believer.” Coupled with this emphasis on the
subjective, there is a downplaying of the objective criteria of our
faith, even to the point of rejecting miracles and prophecies. Purely
personal motives for faith, motives that have mainly to do with
feelings, are given primary of place. “Religion, therefore, would
consist,” Father Bouyer remarks, “entirely in the religious feeling
itself.” Reason is marginalized, and the idea of belief, as being
essentially the assent of the intellect, loses its currency.
Immanentism may be summed up by saying that it represents a stance of
reckless subjectivism with regard to the faith. It cavalierly
dismisses, as being of only secondary importance, the objective
foundations of religion, as revealed to us by God Himself and as
incorporated in the deposit of faith.
In 1907 Pope St. Pius X published his encyclical Pascendi Dominici
Gregis, whose purpose was to sound the alarm against Modernism, which
the Holy Father had defined as “the synthesis of all heresies.” And he
described the Modernists themselves as “the most pernicious of all the
adversaries of the Church.”
In his analysis of the phenomenon, St. Pius X
identified two major parts of Modernism; one was agnosticism, the other
was immanentism. By agnosticism Modernism denies that man is capable of
gaining a reasoned knowledge of God. Thus, with a stroke, it
effectively does away with natural theology, that philosophic discipline
whose principal task is to show that we can arrive at a knowledge of
the existence of God through natural reason. Now, that such is possible
is actually a matter of faith for Catholics, as was taught by the First
Vatican Council.
More here--
http://fssp.com/press/2011/04/immanentism-catholicism-and-religious-experience-by-d-q-mcinerny-ph-d/
This talk is one of Father Ripperger's best.
