Comments on: Tradition? http://capreol.us/didyktile/2006/09/03/tradition/ Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:18:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Daniel http://capreol.us/didyktile/2006/09/03/tradition/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Daniel Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:50:33 +0000 http://www.capreol.us/didyktile/2006/09/03/tradition/#comment-43 Eric, for another example of the sometimes stupefying effects of tradition, see the dissenting judgement in <i>Kokkinakis</i>, <a href="http://bluetinbox.blogspot.com/2006/09/kokkinakis-in-strasbourg.html" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">excerpted by an excellent legal mind</a>. Of course, I would not want to suggest that tradition is a bad thing per se. (After all, we wish to cling to an ecclesiam semper reformandam.) For examples of excellent tradition, let me refer you to the <a href="http://www.stlukeswolverhampton.org.uk/articles_of_religion.htm" rel="nofollow">39 Articles of the Church of England</a>. Eric, for another example of the sometimes stupefying effects of tradition, see the dissenting judgement in Kokkinakis, excerpted by an excellent legal mind.

Of course, I would not want to suggest that tradition is a bad thing per se. (After all, we wish to cling to an ecclesiam semper reformandam.) For examples of excellent tradition, let me refer you to the 39 Articles of the Church of England.

]]> By: Eric Lansing http://capreol.us/didyktile/2006/09/03/tradition/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Eric Lansing Sun, 03 Sep 2006 19:12:30 +0000 http://www.capreol.us/didyktile/2006/09/03/tradition/#comment-28 How revealing this conversation is about the frequent truth of our own hearts. "And then there are others of you," Charles Spurgeon wrote, "who are such sticklers for order, so given to every thing that has been, that you ... would not have the church repaired, lest we should touch one piece of the venerable moss that coats it. You would not cleanse your own garment, because there is ancient dirt upon it. You think that because a thing is ancient, therefore it must be venerable." (Spurgeon's Sermons, Vol.. V, pp. 350; Baker Books) Whether we are in the Church of England or any other denomination, we always ought to be willing to change our own perceptions in light of the constant truth of the scriptures. May we always hold to the Reformation cry, "Ecclesia semper reformanda," that the Church always ought to reform for the sake of Christ our Constancy. How revealing this conversation is about the frequent truth of our own hearts. “And then there are others of you,” Charles Spurgeon wrote, “who are such sticklers for order, so given to every thing that has been, that you … would not have the church repaired, lest we should touch one piece of the venerable moss that coats it. You would not cleanse your own garment, because there is ancient dirt upon it. You think that because a thing is ancient, therefore it must be venerable.” (Spurgeon’s Sermons, Vol.. V, pp. 350; Baker Books) Whether we are in the Church of England or any other denomination, we always ought to be willing to change our own perceptions in light of the constant truth of the scriptures. May we always hold to the Reformation cry, “Ecclesia semper reformanda,” that the Church always ought to reform for the sake of Christ our Constancy.

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