Has the Catholic Church taken cognizance of the theory that the terminal cause of Jesus's death on the cross was heart-failure?
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Has the Catholic Church taken cognizance of the theory that the terminal cause of Jesus's death on the cross was heart-failure?
The short answer is no!
Crucifixion was a torture in itself to deliberately produce death. However some Catholic physicians have written on the minuet causes of what the crucified actually died of.
In his book, A Doctor at Calvary: The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ as Described by a Surgeon (1950), the French Surgeon Pierre Barbet put forth convincingly that Our Lord died of suffocation.
In another theory The Physical Death of Jesus Christ, Dr. Edwards, postulated that Jesus died of died of shock brought on by copious blood loss so that he did not have enough blood to keep his brain and heart, and therefore the rest of his body, alive. His heart probably started beating in a rapid rhythm called ventricular tachycardia.
Of these various medical theories on the cause of Jesus’ death while on the Cross, the Church has not recognized any one as being the absolute cause of Our Lord’s death.
Others claim it was due myocardial infarction, heart rupture and hemopericardium.
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What is the basis that He died of heart failure?
Although, most likely the severe psychological trauma in the garden of Gethsemane took a physical toll, so did the multiple trials, the crown of thorns on his head, carrying the cross to the hill.
37 And Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and breathed His last. 38 Then the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. 39 So when the centurion, who stood opposite Him, saw that [g]He cried out like this and breathed His last, he said, “Truly this Man was the Son of God!” https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+15&version=NKJV \
30 So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+19&version=NKJV \
and
50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit. ... 33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. 34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+27&version=NKJV \
When they pierced His side, water coming out signified that they also pierced His heart, but He was already dead. Piercing the heart was so that the Romans and ultimately the rest of the world would know He truly died.
Putting these passages together, the sequence of events in close time proximity was A. He cried out B. He gave up His Spirit C. He breathed His last. Cessation of breathing would indicate death. The centurion immediately refers to Him in the past tense.
It seems that He died when He chose to give up His Spirit.
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