COMMENT: Refectory Reading "Whose Bible is it?" Pelikan

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 "The weight of learning"!

From: William W.  
To: Fr Donald ...
Sent: Thursday, 20 December 2012, 19:23
Subject: Re: [Dom Donald's Blog] COMMENT: daunting Pannenberg

Dear Father Donald,

 

Thank you - another famous theologian for me to encounter! Jaroslav Jan Pelikan. His book "Whose Bible is it?" will be a real joy for you to listen to in the Refectory. 

 

Wikipedia has a good write up on Pelikan, and gives a quotation that illustrates the brilliance of his mind:

 

His 1984 book The Vindication of Tradition gave rise to an often quoted one liner. In an interview in July, 1989, he said: "Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Tradition lives in conversation with the past, while remembering where we are and when we are and that it is we who have to decide. Traditionalism supposes that nothing should ever be done for the first time, so all that is needed to solve any problem is to arrive at the supposedly unanimous testimony of this homogenized tradition." 

I came upon this delightful image entitled "The weight of learning"! It tells of the delight - and urgency - of discovery!

 

With my love in Our Lord,

William