The Church
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Tradition: Its Nature, Purpose, and Function
- Vladimir Lossky, "Tradition and Traditions" (Chapter 8 of In the Image and Likeness of God (St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, Crestwood, NY: 1974), pp 141-168. 'One does not remain in the Tradition by a certain historical inertia, by keeping, as a “tradition received from the Fathers” all that which, by force of habit, flatters a certain devout sensibility. On the contrary, it is by substituting this sort of “traditions” for the Tradition of the Holy Spirit living in the Church that one runs the most risk of finding oneself finally outside the Body of Christ. It must not be thought that the conservative attitude alone is salutary, nor that heretics are always “innovators.”' (pp. 155-6).
- Fr. Georges Florovsky, "The
Function of Tradition in the Ancient Church": Chapter V of the Collected
Works of Georges Florovsky, Vol. I: Bible, Church, Tradition (Büchervertriebsanstalt,
Vaduz, Europa, 1987), pp. 73-92.
- Fr. Georges Florovsky, "The
Authority of the Councils and the Tradition of the Fathers": Chapter
VI of the Collected Works of Georges Florovsky, Vol. I: Bible, Church,
Tradition (Büchervertriebsanstalt, Vaduz, Europa, 1987), pp. 93-103.
- Fr. Georges Florovsky, "St.
Gregory Palamas and the Tradition of the Fathers": Chapter VII of the
Collected Works of Georges Florovsky, Vol. I: Bible, Church, Tradition
(Büchervertriebsanstalt, Vaduz, Europa, 1987), pp. 105-120.
- Fr. John Meyendorff, "Theology in the Thirteenth Century:
Methodological Contrasts". From Kathigitria: Essays Presented to
Joan Hussey (Porphyrogenitus Publishing, 1988).
- Bp. Hilarion (Alfeyev), “Orthodox Theology on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century”. Paper read at the international scholarly conference “The Russian Orthodox Church from 1943 to the Present” at Transfiguration Monastery in Bose (Italy), 15-17 Sept 1999. Bishop Hilarion is the Bishop of Vienna and Representative of the Russian Orthodox Church to Western Europe.
