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John W. Gardner's Address at Stanford's 100th Commencement Ceremony
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In other words, Cranmer’s convictions were both evangelical and “catholic”: “[C. S.] Lewis notes that Cranmer and the other makers of the prayer book ‘wished their book to be praised not for original genius but for catholicity and antiquity’” (Alan Jacobs, The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography [Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013], 66).
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
Any true and living tradition must be at once both the subject and the object of a constant and pious hermeneutical retrieval that, guided by an awareness of the history and logic of what has gone before, seeks to discover the tradition’s dialectical unity and rationality ever anew. 128
David Hart Tradition and Apocalypse 2022
David Hart Tradition and Apocalypse 2022
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tradition is the flow, the changing current, we, as Christians, live in.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
In oral cultures, parables and proverbs were necessary tools for codifying and remembering ancient wisdom and ideas. They were easily transferrable and laid the foundation for thought itself.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“To speak as a Jew is to quote … [and] to quote is to see the present through the prism of tradition.”