The greatest danger to the new evangelization of the West, including of Germany, is the return of the doctrine of double truth, a belief that is of Gnostic origin and which Irenaeus of Lyon already refuted with Catholic hermeneutics. It is popularly held that religion is a matter of individual and collective feeling and that all historical religions are merely culturally dependent expressions of these feelings. In this vein, no religion is deemed to have a monopoly on truth. But the Church positions itself as the authority appointed by God precisely because it understands itself as the divinely mandated teacher of the revelation given once and for all in Christ and, therefore, as the sacrament of salvation in him.
