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: ''The Devil's Advocate is also the name of several novels authored by Taylor Caldwell , by Morris West , and by Andrew Neiderman .'' Formerly, during the Canonization process by the Roman Catholic Church , the Promoter of the Faith (Latin '''''Promotor Fidei'''''), or '''Devil's Advocate''' ( Latin '''''advocatus diaboli'''''), was a Canon Law yer appointed by the Church to argue against the canonization of the proposed candidate. It was his job to take a skeptical view of the proceedings, to look for holes in the evidence, to argue that the miracles attributed to the candidate were fraudulent, etc. The office was established in , as opposed to 98 canonizations by all his 20th-century predecessors. The increase suggests that the Devil's Advocate indeed reduced the number of canonization, and some hold the opinion it served a useful role in ensuring that canonizations did not proceed without due care and caution, and that the status of sainthood was not lightly recognized. In common Parlance , the term has come to mean a person who Argues a position that they do not necessarily believe in, simply for the sake of arguing; or who presents a Counterargument for a position they do believe in to another debater. This process can be used to test the quality of the original argument and identify weaknesses in its structure. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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