Tradition as a Source of Vintage Identity

by Betsy Childs Howard

Are Evangelicals adopting tradition for its style or substance? Continue Reading »

4 Apr 2014

Tradition and Creativity in Culture and Law

by Mary Ann Glendon

Awell-known account of creativity sets the scene for a celebrated act of creation, and a bleak scene it was: “In the beginning … the earth was without form and void, and darkness covered the face of the abyss.” On that occasion, creativity consisted in bringing something out of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 1992

Tradition and Creativity in Theology

by Avery Cardinal Dulles

The ideas of “tradition” and “creativity” seem at first glance to be opposed and incompatible. Tradition says continuity; creativity says innovation and hence discontinuity. With the proper distinctions, however, it may be possible to show that the two are not only compatible but mutually . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 1992

Trinitarian Morality?

by Leslie E. Gerber

The traditions Gregory Jones explores in Transformed Judgment are grand ones: Aristotelian virtue-centered moral philosophy; Thomism, especially as it elucidates the relation between the sacraments and friendship with God; Trinitarian thought; Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language. One . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 1991