THE ORTHODOX CONCEPT: TRADITION AND ORTHODOXY
For a long time, some western writers looked to “tradition” as blind obedience to the past, a means of mechanically conveying inert thoughts and ideas. Their point of view holds tradition as a precise catalog of ancient doctrines, canons and rites, or else a museum for antiquity. Therefore, they consider the traditional church obsolete, an obscurant to modern mores, and attached to what is old simply for its antiquity.
In this simple work, I would like to explain our concept to “tradition” through the Holy Bible, patristic thought and our practical church life.
Fr. Tadros Y. Malaty
