Advocatus Diaboli

Burtsell, R. (1907). Advocatus Diaboli. The Catholic Encyclopedia.

Type

Reference work

Intellectual base

Reference work

Year

1907

Volume

1

Link

https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01168b.htm

Cited from

military_strategic_studies

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Red Teaming In Strategy
  • The ecclesiastical advocatus diaboli ports to design-review boards and dissimilar-redundancy challenge teams.

    This sourceDescribes the office of the Promotor Fidei (devil's advocate), formally established by Sixtus V in 1587, whose role was to argue adversarially against canonization — the historical antecedent of designated devil's-advocate review.

Mechanisms

• Red-Team Disruption Challenge
  • Institutionalized dissent of this kind has a long pedigree: the devil's advocate was once a formal role whose entire job was to argue the uncomfortable case.

    This sourceRecords the devil’s advocate as a formal canonization officer whose duty was to prepare possible arguments against a candidate and insist that objections be considered.

• Red-Team Scoping Review
  • Its lineage is the red team and the older office of the devil's advocate

    This sourceDescribes the Devil’s Advocate as an officer charged with advancing objections against beatification or canonization.

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