Inventing Catholic tradition / Terrence W. Tilley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tilley, Terrence W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tradition (Theology).

Catholic Church--Doctrines.

Catholic Church.

Physical Description:

viii, 200 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, [2000]

Summary:

This creative argument that traditions are neither found nor made, but are invented and reinvented in practice, is carried out in dialogue with scholars such as Yves Congar and George Lindbeck. Tilley examines the actual practices as the bearers of tradition and argues that vibrant and meaningful traditions must be reinvented or reconstructed in every generation. He demonstrates how deliberately invented or imposed traditions are often resisted. Tilley applies his analysis to the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and, in the last chapter, shows how truth, revelation, and authority can be accommodated by a constructivist, practical theology of tradition.

Contents:

The Background for This Writing 1

The Difficulty of the Concept of Tradition 7

1 Traditions: Made or Given? 13

Scholars and/or Participants? 15

Faithfully Remaking Religious Traditions 25

The Contexts for Traditions 29

Inventing Traditions 36

2 The Concept of Tradition 45

A Practical Approach to "Making" and "Finding" Traditions 45

A Practical Theory of Tradition 50

Practice and Praxis 61

3 Practices as Tradition 66

Understanding Practices: Eucharistic Practice and Belief 67

Understanding Specific Beliefs 75

Problems in a Practical Theory of Tradition 80

4 The Grammar of a Tradition 88

Rules and Practices 89

Following a Rule 92

Coming to Judgment 101

The Status of Rules in Practices 106

Constancy and Change in Traditions 110

A Case of a Change in Tradition 116

5 Toward a Grammar of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition 123

An Analogical Imagination 125

A Universal Hope 134

An Inclusive Community: "Here Comes Everybody" 136

A Public Church 139

A Gracious God 144

Why Not Other Principles? 149

6 Toward a Practical Theology of Tradition 152

Truth in a Practical Theology of Tradition 156

Revelation in a Practical Theology of Tradition 170

Authority in a Practical Theology of Tradition 177.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194) and index.

ISBN:

1570753407

OCLC:

44075865