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Tradition
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From Flesh to Flesh: On the Sacramental Meaning of Tradition
[T]he sacraments (with their source in the Eucharist) are the form of tradition; and that tradition is the content of the sacraments.
Henri de Lubac on the Development of Doctrine
“It is in the Eucharist that the Bride receives a share in the Lord’s ‘traditioning,’ whose unity of completeness and newness, in turn, enables development of doctrine while distinguishing it from arbitrary innovation.”
Taking Truth for Granted: A Reflection on the Significance of Tradition in Josef Pieper
“What is passed on in tradition is not just some truth, but the ground of all truth.”
Technocracy and Tradition
“The technocrat is the autocrat; or rather, he fancies he rules himself by means of his tools.”
On Poetic Traditions: T. S. Eliot, Alasdair MacIntyre, and the Practice of Reason
“Poetry is made of poetry, but always in some sense is about something else.”
Olivier Messiaen and the Promise of Avant-Garde Traditionalism
“[T]radition is not an indiscriminate preservation of everything but rather comprises a selective and dynamic process of both remembering and forgetting.”
Tradition as Gift: On the Theologian’s Responsibility to Tradition
“Any theology that does not serve that which we first adore and which cannot be translated into holy action is not truly theology.”