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Scripture and Tradition1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

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The problem of the relationship between Scripture and Tradition is in the first place a problem of the theological relationship between the apostolic period and the period of the Church. All the other questions depend on the solution that we give to this problem. The alternatives—co-ordination or subordination of Tradition to Scripture—derive from the question of knowing how we must understand the fact that the period of the Church is the continuation and unfolding of the apostolic period. For we must note right away that this fact is capable of divergent interpretations. That is why agreement on the mere fact that the Church continues the work of Christ on earth does not necessarily imply agreement on the relationship between Scripture and Tradition. Thus in my thesis developed in Christ and Time as well as in my studies on the sacraments in the New Testament I came considerably nearer to the ‘Catholic’ point of view. In fact I would affirm very strongly that through the Church the history of salvation is continued on earth. I believe that we find this idea throughout the New Testament, and I should even consider it the key for the understanding of the Johannine Gospel. I would maintain, moreover, that the sacraments, Baptism and Eucharist, take the place in the Church of the miracles performed by Jesus Christ in the period of the Incarnation. And yet I am going to show in the following pages that I subordinate Tradition to Scripture.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1953

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page 116 note 1 Cf. Cnllmann, Petrus, reviewed in this number by Professor Greenslade, p. 203.

page 117 note 1 Scottish Journal of Theology, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 180 ff.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 127 note 1 This point is strongly underlined by Diem, H., Das Problem des Schrift-Kanons (Theol. Studien), 1951.Google Scholar

page 129 note 1 It has been formulated in oral discussion with Père Daniélou.

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