I was wondering what Traditional theology meant to everyone. To me it means relying on the Church Fathers, Tradition, and Scripture not just Scripture alone.
I was wondering what Traditional theology meant to everyone. To me it means relying on the Church Fathers, Tradition, and Scripture not just Scripture alone.
Since sacred Scripture is accepted by those of us who believe in holy Tradition I think that it's possible that someone who believes in Sola Scriptura could post in this sub-forum with their only intention being to post Scripture passages and their thoughts on common ground beliefs without debating against holy Tradition. I think this is possible at least in theory. Whether it will work in practice is a different question.
What is "holy tradition" as opposed to common-or-garden tradition?
Holy Tradition is the living transmission of the message of the Gospel in the Church. The oral preaching of the Apostles, and the written message of salvation under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit (Bible), as conserved and handed on as the deposit of faith through the apostolic succession in the Church. Both the living Tradition and the written Scriptures have their common source in the revelation of God in Jesus Christ.
The theological, liturgical, disciplinary, and devotional traditions of the local churches both contain and can be distinguished from this apostolic Tradition