http://widesky.biz/blog David M. Frye's Personal Thoughts and Reflections Sun, 25 Dec 2011 21:46:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://widesky.biz/blog/about/comment-page-1/#comment-2000 Pr.William McDonald Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:07:46 +0000 #comment-2000 Your comment on alpb regarding scripture and tradition is brilliant, in my estimation. If you've expounded more on this, I'd love to read it. I think there's a real difference from the flatfooted "sola scriptura" approach--which was articulated in the first installation on the thread in which your comments appeared--and speaking of scripture as norma normans. In that latter view, scripture "norms" tradition as its chief "witness." We could speak of tradition as the outward and visible effects of the Holy Spirit's presence on, with, in, and under the life of the church, beginning with Jesus' ministry. Scripture is the chief witness to this primal, constitutive power. Full disclosure: I'm a Methodist serving an ELCA parish in rural Tennessee. I find it interesting that Methodism has never had the sort of hermeneutical difficulties Lutheranism has had around the relationship bet. scripture and tradition. Both have been taken as sources of theological reflection and formulation, not pitted against each other (I think Luther and the confessions should be read in light of their overall positive view of tradition. It was the later branches of the reformation that thought otherwise.) William McDonald St. Paul's Lutheran, Vonore, TN Your comment on alpb regarding scripture and tradition is brilliant, in my estimation. If you’ve expounded more on this, I’d love to read it. I think there’s a real difference from the flatfooted “sola scriptura” approach–which was articulated in the first installation on the thread in which your comments appeared–and speaking of scripture as norma normans. In that latter view, scripture “norms” tradition as its chief “witness.” We could speak of tradition as the outward and visible effects of the Holy Spirit’s presence on, with, in, and under the life of the church, beginning with Jesus’ ministry. Scripture is the chief witness to this primal, constitutive power.
Full disclosure: I’m a Methodist serving an ELCA parish in rural Tennessee. I find it interesting that Methodism has never had the sort of hermeneutical difficulties Lutheranism has had around the relationship bet. scripture and tradition. Both have been taken as sources of theological reflection and formulation, not pitted against each other (I think Luther and the confessions should be read in light of their overall positive view of tradition. It was the later branches of the reformation that thought otherwise.)
William McDonald
St. Paul’s Lutheran, Vonore, TN

]]>