Quote of the Day (Elizabeth Bruenig, on Tradition as a ‘Chorus of Helpful Coreligionists’)
“Tradition provides a chain of provenance beginning
with the original biblical texts and extending down into our present year, with
scholars and clerics reading their predecessors and puzzling out how to apply
their thinking about God and his people to new questions that arise with time.
Instead of leaving a single conscience to the knotty business of making sense
of ancient texts, the tradition offers Christians a chorus of helpful
coreligionists passing down insight over time. An individual’s conscience plays
a role, of course, in her own interpretation of the tradition; but the weight
of time and expertise are instructive, and they whisper through space and centuries
that you are not alone.”—Elizabeth Bruenig, “Ever Ancient, Ever New," America
Magazine, Aug. 7, 2017
“Tradition provides a chain of provenance beginning
with the original biblical texts and extending down into our present year, with
scholars and clerics reading their predecessors and puzzling out how to apply
their thinking about God and his people to new questions that arise with time.
Instead of leaving a single conscience to the knotty business of making sense
of ancient texts, the tradition offers Christians a chorus of helpful
coreligionists passing down insight over time. An individual’s conscience plays
a role, of course, in her own interpretation of the tradition; but the weight
of time and expertise are instructive, and they whisper through space and centuries
that you are not alone.”—Elizabeth Bruenig, “Ever Ancient, Ever New," America
Magazine, Aug. 7, 2017
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