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Part II: Heiko Oberman on Scripture and Tradition: A Clash of Two Concepts
1 Comment Published by Cynthia R. Nielsen May 22nd, 2007 in Basil the Great, Commonitorium, Eastern Orthodox Thinkers/Themes, Greek Fathers, Gregory of Rimini, Heiko Oberman, Latin Church Fathers, Reformation History, Scripture, Tradition, Vincent of Lerins, two-source theoryIn the second section of his essay, Oberman moves into a discussion of the concept of tradition that characterized the fourth and fifth centuries. First, however, he summarizes two important points of the pre-Augustinian concept of tradition: (1) “The immediate divine origin of tradition together with the insistence on a clearly circumscribed series of historical [...]
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