ABSTRACT
As matters stand it is not so easy to avoid the difficulty by insisting that, despite its weakness, the actual faith of these Christians includes the absolute assent of faith, whereby people believe, at least implicitly, all that the Church tells them to believe. For in their actual faith many Christians not only do not affirm this or that truth of the faith with absolute assent, they do not even affirm the absolute authority of the Church’s magisterium (even in its definitive decisions) with an absolute assent of faith. Therefore it is not as easy as it might appear to avoid the difficulty by appealing to the implicit faith of the average believer … .
