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Holy Tradition vs. Sola Scriptura: The Witness of the Liturgy
Vivificat - From Contemplation to Action ^ | 12 March 2015 | ن Teófilo de Jesús ن (@vivificat)

Posted on 03/12/2015 6:04:41 AM PDT by Teófilo

Brethren, Peace be with you.

Ironically - or perhaps Providentially - I wrote my best academic paper ever during my years as an Eastern Orthodox Christian. You can still see that a very Scholastic mind stood behind the paper, perhaps a portent of my later return to the Catholic Church.

The paper is titled Holy Tradition vs. Sola Scriptura: The Witness of the Liturgy. Frank Schaeffer published it on his Christian Activist Number 10 back in the 1990s. Fortunately, the good people at PEMPTOUSIA saved the paper from Schaeffer's unfortunate shipwreck and preserved the paper at their website. I hope you access it and enjoy it. Feel free to leave me your comments here, I want to read them.



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Blunders. Typos. Mine.
1 posted on 03/12/2015 6:04:41 AM PDT by Teófilo
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To: YellowRoseofTx; Rashputin; StayoutdaBushesWay; OldNewYork; MotherRedDog; sayuncledave; ...

PING.


2 posted on 03/12/2015 6:05:50 AM PDT by Teófilo (Visit Vivificat! - http://www.vivificat.org - A Catholic Blog of News, Commentary and Opinion)
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To: Teófilo
Ironically - or perhaps Providentially - I wrote my best academic paper ever during my years as an Eastern Orthodox Christian. You can still see that a very Scholastic mind stood behind the paper, perhaps a portent of my later return to the Catholic Church. The paper is titled Holy Tradition vs. Sola Scriptura: The Witness of the Liturgy. Frank Schaeffer published it on his Christian Activist Number 10 back in the 1990s.

I wouldn't consider that last detail something to brag about.

3 posted on 03/12/2015 6:09:20 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Alex Murphy

I am constrained by the facts. They are stubborn things, whether they favor me or not in the end. :-|

Back then The Christian Activist was an Orthodox publication with great contents. Shaeffer even wrote a great book about his conversion back then.

Too bad he ended like Tertullian.

+JMJ (that’s “Jesus, Mary, Joseph” to the censor),
~Theo


4 posted on 03/12/2015 6:28:56 AM PDT by Teófilo (Visit Vivificat! - http://www.vivificat.org - A Catholic Blog of News, Commentary and Opinion)
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To: Teófilo

Oh you’ll get some comments alright.

Thanks for posting, I can’t read it all now but I’ll try and get to it over the weekend.


5 posted on 03/12/2015 6:30:37 AM PDT by infool7 (The ugly truth is just a big lie.)
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To: Teófilo

I’m still working through it... but it’s a good read!

(Speaking as one who’s languishing among American Catholic [uppercase “C” sometimes questionable, depending on the parish], neo-1960’s dreck in place of fulsome liturgy, may I say that—I hope in the non-sinful sense—I envy the Orthodox their tenacious preservation of their liturgy?)


6 posted on 03/12/2015 6:36:28 AM PDT by paladinan (Rule #1: There is a God. Rule #2: It isn't you.)
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To: infool7

Happy reading! And thank you for taking the time. :-)

~Theo


7 posted on 03/12/2015 6:45:37 AM PDT by Teófilo (Visit Vivificat! - http://www.vivificat.org - A Catholic Blog of News, Commentary and Opinion)
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To: paladinan

I appreciate your input!

Despite the problems - and scandals - we all know about, I’m convinced the Catholic Church has done a pretty good job of preserving what Dom Gregory Dix called “the shape of the Liturgy” and, may I add, its form.

I rest easy in the Lord, despite the shortcomings of others and of myself, to render Him the worship He deserves.

~Theo


8 posted on 03/12/2015 6:48:26 AM PDT by Teófilo (Visit Vivificat! - http://www.vivificat.org - A Catholic Blog of News, Commentary and Opinion)
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To: Teófilo

:) I’d gently add a plug, here, for dear Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and “Summorum Pontificum”...


9 posted on 03/12/2015 6:51:49 AM PDT by paladinan (Rule #1: There is a God. Rule #2: It isn't you.)
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To: sauropod

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10 posted on 03/12/2015 6:52:50 AM PDT by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: Teófilo

bkmk


11 posted on 03/12/2015 7:14:03 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: Alex Murphy
I really hate to see what Frank Schaeffer has become. In the late 80's I read his dad's book The Great Evangelical Disaster in which he warned the evangelical world of the perilous path many were on when they doubted the infallible, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God.
12 posted on 03/12/2015 7:36:41 AM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: Teófilo
Frank Schaeffer published it on his Christian Activist Number 10 back in the 1990s.

Not something to brag about on FR.

13 posted on 03/12/2015 8:00:25 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: .45 Long Colt
I really hate to see what Frank Schaeffer has become. In the late 80's I read his dad's book The Great Evangelical Disaster in which he warned the evangelical world of the perilous path many were on when they doubted the infallible, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God.

Yeah. When they do that they become Catholics and Orthodox.

14 posted on 03/12/2015 8:02:37 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Like I’ve said. I’m not bragging, it’s just a fact, not a brag.

This happened in the 1990s, when Schaeffer was Orthodox. Not recently.

~Theo


15 posted on 03/12/2015 8:03:16 AM PDT by Teófilo (Visit Vivificat! - http://www.vivificat.org - A Catholic Blog of News, Commentary and Opinion)
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To: Teófilo
Like I’ve said. I’m not bragging, it’s just a fact, not a brag.

This happened in the 1990s, when Schaeffer was Orthodox. Not recently.

I fail to see how his current attitude differs from that of any Orthodox chrstian. He hates "rednecks," opposes political conservatism, and thinks that anyone who believes the "fairy tales" in Genesis actually happened are stupid and alienated from 2000 years of history.

16 posted on 03/12/2015 8:10:59 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: Zionist Conspirator

It’s been almost 20 years since I wrote and was published in _The Christian Activist_. I recall it as being a good, challenging publication, but that’s about all I remember. I also recall the book Schaeffer wrote describing his conversion and I remember it as a good read, but don’t ask me to quote anything from it. And I don’t have any more.

Eastern Orthodox people are a varied lot. I hesitate to generalize notions about them based solely on their liberals within them.

~Theo


17 posted on 03/12/2015 8:25:47 AM PDT by Teófilo (Visit Vivificat! - http://www.vivificat.org - A Catholic Blog of News, Commentary and Opinion)
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To: Teófilo

I enjoyed the essay and thank you for making available to read.

To your witness, I say AMEN!

I also rest easy and joyously in the Lord, knowing that where I am weak, He is strong and makes perfect my own feeble attempt to worship Him as He deserves.


18 posted on 03/12/2015 1:43:59 PM PDT by Jvette
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To: Teófilo

Reading it now Teo.


19 posted on 03/12/2015 8:50:47 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Pray/Penance. Isa 5:18-21,10:1-3 "Tempus faciendi, Domine, dissipaverunt legem tuam")
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To: Jvette

Glory be to Jesus Christ!


20 posted on 03/13/2015 7:22:00 AM PDT by Teófilo (Visit Vivificat! - http://www.vivificat.org - A Catholic Blog of News, Commentary and Opinion)
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