bpeters1's Blog

CorpusChristi15 (Kyle), Nun2Be (Kate), SteveSearfoss and myself have been having a fascinating discussion in relation to Scripture and Tradition. Please see Kyle's video for a more complete background. To summarize, there have been arguments made that non-written Tradition (that is, what is handed down by the Apostles and bishops) has never been authoritative because the Church has always had an authoritative text, even before the NT letters were written (that text is supposedly the Old Testament). Furthermore, there were arguments made that Catholic practices which are commonly supported by turning to tradition clash with Biblical statements. I'm continuing the discussion here since there seem to be new length-limits on video posts and this discussion is quite nuanced...