modernity etc.
Submitted by Dirk Gently on February 16 2000 at 21:08:36
In reply to Quality post - none of this modern view!!(NT) Submitted by Forgiven on February 16 2000 at 19:00:08
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Glad you appreciated it! I would just like to point out that antiquity is no guarantee of truthfulness, any more than modernity is. However, it can at least offer some protection against being seduced by the spirit of the age. :-) In his introduction to the new translation of Athanasius' On the Incarnation of the Word of God (published by St. Vladimir's Seminary Press), C. S. Lewis recommended that we read at the very least one old book for every three modern ones, just to provide us with a viewpoint that has different blindspots from the ones all moderns share. Dirk Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. - Jaroslav Pelikan |