Posted on: April 21st, 2009 Liturgical View of Scripture (IV): Scripture Itself
Intro to series. Part I. Part II. Part III.
Finally, NT Scripture itself teaches that there is another stream of “revelation” or “teaching” or something that comes to the church (this is ecclesiology) from God other than just Scripture: see the following:
• 2 Thess 2:15. Here the verbal and written apostolic instruction is subsumed under the heading of the ‘traditions’, suggesting not a two source revelation paradigm, but rather one source – God, who uses two unified means, namely written and oral which are harmonious rather than contradictory.
• Luke 1:1-4. Here we find the oral tradition (v.2) preceding Scripture as a source of catechesis (the word used in v.4).
• John 20:30 and 21:25.
• There is Paul in I Cor 11:23: “For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you….”
• There is 2 Tim 2:2: “Entrust the things which you heard from me to faithful men.”
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religiocity » Blog Archive » Two Kinds of Tradition Says:
May 27th, 2009 at 10:40 am[…] First, there is (oral) “Tradition,” which, as St. Basil says, refers primarily to the handing down of ritual actions in the liturgical worship of the church. This kind of tradition is of course subject to Scripture in theory, though it is hard to imagine how it could “contradict Scripture.” On the other hand, there is a sense in which this kind of tradition is prior to Scripture in that, since time immemorial, it has conditioned the public reading of Scripture in specific, proscribed ways. The public reading of Scripture, in other words, is embedded or enfolded within this ritual action which is the church’s liturgy. (Scripture itself refers to this kind of Tradition.) […]