He is a student of culture, an expert on the church, and knows the difference between the Biblical theology of the church, and the
historical tradition of church.
The «new» church they created together respects the
Celtic traditions of the church and the congregation, reaches into the community and is able to respond to future needs.
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In the plainest of churches a pulpit and an altar or altar rail are to be found, the pattern of architecture following the central
tradition of the church as to whether the pulpit is in the center or at the side.
Catholic exegesis, then, deliberately places itself within the
living Tradition of the Church At the heart of this document the Incarnational principle is enshrined as that principle that guides and governs the Church's understanding of the Scriptures.
Alexander III, following the
ancient tradition of the Church declared that «After a lawfully accorded consent affecting the present, it is allowed to one of the parties, even against the will of the other, to choose a monastery (just as certain saints have been called from marriage), provided that carnal intercourse shall not have taken place between them; and it is allowed to the one who is left to proceed to a second marriage» (III Decretal., xxxii, 2).
Today, too, what is most important is prayer, love of Jesus Christ, silence and suffering, indeed all the things that the good
old tradition of the Church has always known and lived.
Taken together, they argue for «change» but, in the hands of O'Malley, with a wary glance upon the
inherited tradition of the Church, earlier conciliar authenticity and the authority of papal teaching.
We are well aware of your story: how for all these years you have held high in the Argentine, alike in doctrine, in worship, and in life, «the faith that was once for all delivered unto the saints», and also the
best traditions of the Church of Scotland: and how St. Andrew's has been the spiritual home of tens of thousands of Scottish folk who in the characteristic spirit of enterprise found their several ways there.
The words of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas are present as «secret», i.e. not known in the
common tradition of the Church, and it is said that «whoever finds the interpretation of them will not taste death» (Preface).
It is a waste of time to argue with feminists, or to think up clever replies to the cowards who tell us that we are «challenged with being faithful to the
credal tradition of the church, while... naming the God who is «One in Three and Three in One» in non-gender-specific terms.»
Celebrating the vernacular: Certain regions of the country have a
distinct tradition of church architecture, and congregations often want to tie their new building to that tradition.
(56) But Justo and Catherine Gonzalez express a caution «that lectionaries are a selection which reflects the
prevailing tradition of the church, and that therefore they must be seen with the necessary «ideological suspicion,» and corrected accordingly.»
They were doubtless told again and again in the early church, as today one remembers the illustrations in a sermon, and thus found their way into not only the
oral tradition of the church but the earlier written sources of the Gospels.
... As Victor Hanson and John Heath write, «Not one of the multicultural classicists really wishes to live under indigenous pre «Colombian ideas of government, Arabic protocols for female behavior, Chinese canons of medical ethics,
Islamic traditions of church and state, African approaches to science, Japanese ideas of race, Indian social castes, or Native American notions of private property.»
But certainly Jesus must have used it, since in Palestinian Aramaic nothing else would be possible; and it is obviously true that the increasingly
Hellcnistic tradition of the Church loses its feeling against the direct mention of God, witness the widespread «Kingdom of God» which would never he found in Aramaic.
The Campbells» effort to unite Christians on the foundation of what they perceived to be the New Testament pattern of preaching and discipline thus included an iconoclastic attack on the
historic traditions of the churches.
To these three reasons I might now add that a fourth — that a reorientation of priest and people during of the Liturgy of the Eucharist would bring Latin - rite Catholic practice into harmony with the practice of the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Orthodox Churches — and a fifth: that this re-orientation would place the reformed liturgy of Vatican II in continuity with an ancient
liturgical tradition of the Church.
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But such popular talk of one's «calling» also betrays a crucial misunderstanding of discernment, a cardinal error that is entirely foreign to the
great tradition of the Church.
Is it little wonder that the response in U.S. churches to global suffering is superficial when the
theological tradition of those churches has emphasized human incapacity to do anything about the human condition?
He has since given many signs of his support for the present pope; when many of his episcopal brethren were doing everything they could to undermine the motu proprio establishing the right to celebrate the «old Mass», he made clear his belief that the rite of John XXIII «is not a relic, not a reverting to the past, but part of the
living tradition of the Church».»
Many other saintly authorities could be quoted, but one hopes that this helps to reassure those who, in the current climate of tension, have been made nervous and perhaps over cautious about what truly belongs to the
orthodox tradition of the Church.