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Tradition and Traditions: The Biblical, Historical, and Theological Evidence for Catholic Teaching on Tradition 1/e

Yves M.-J. Congar

Published March 1998 by Pearson Custom Publishing
Copyright 1997, 536 pp., Cloth
ISBN: 0-536-00173-1
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$67.00

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Features

  • Explains the meaning of Tradition in the Catholic Church.
  • Uses rigorous scholarship while making a complex subject accessible.
  • Clarifies Catholic teaching.
  • Synthesizes Scriptural, patristic and theological elements.
  • Explores traditions as they pertain to Judeo-Christian religions.
  • Brings to light long overlooked patristic testimony.
  • Answers various Protestant objections to Catholic Tradition.


Table of Contents

PART ONE. AN HISTORICAL ESSAY.

1. The Existence of Tradition in the Old and New Testaments.

2. The Fathers and the Early Church/

3. The Middle Ages.

4. The Reformation Protest.

5. The Council of Trent and Post-Tridentine Theology.

6. Tradition and Magisterium from the Council of Trent to 1950.

PART TWO.

1. An Analysis and Synthesis of the Idea of Tradition.

2. An Attempt to Clarify the Notion of Tradition. Its Various Aspects and Meanings.

3. The Subject of Tradition.

4. Tradition and the Church's Life. Tradition is a Unique Means of Communication.

5. Scripture and Tradition in Relation to Revelation and to the Church.

6. The Monuments of Tradition.

7. Contemporary Protestant Thought and the Problem of Tradition.




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