exegetical project and the "Rule of Worship"
The appeal to Tradition was actually an appeal to the conscience of the Church. is posited that the Church had the knowledge and understanding of truth, meaning and truth of Revelation. Consequently, the Church had jurisdiction and authority both to proclaim the Gospel to interpret it. This does not mean that the Church was "on top" of Scripture. She went with Scripture , but otherwise it was not bound by its "letter". About the ultimate exegesis and interpretation was to explain the meaning and intent of Scripture, or rather, the meaning of Revelation, the history of salvation ( Heilsgeschichte ). Church, she was to preach Christ and not simply "Scripture."
Use of Tradition in the Ancient Church can not be understood properly only in the context of actual use that is made of Scripture. The Word was kept alive in the Church. It was reflected in his life and structure. Faith and Life were organically linked. It is expedient to recall the famous passage of the Indiculus Dei gratia , mistakenly attributed to Pope Celestine and whose true author is Prosper of Aquitaine: "Such are inviolable decrees of the Holy Apostolic See, by which our holy Fathers have killed innovation fatal ... Consider the sacred prayers that our priests, in the tradition of the Apostles, offer uniformly in every Catholic church throughout the world. That the rule of worship establish the rule of faith. " It is true, of course, that this sentence, taken in its immediate context, does not make any general principle, but is limited in its intent, in case of infant baptism designed as an example of the reality of a original sin or inherited. Admittedly, this formula is not authorized the proclamation of a Pope, but the personal views of a private theologian, expressed in a hot controversy [38] . However, this little phrase was not removed from its context and has been modified in the order of words simply by accident or lack of understanding when it expresses the principle: Ut legem credendi statuat lex orandi " the act of worship that establish the law of debt. " The "Faith" found its first expression specifically in the rites and forms of liturgy and sacraments, the Creed even appeared first as part integral to the rite of Christian initiation . "Abstracts and symbols of faith, whether in the form of report and questions and answers are secondary products of the liturgy, they reflect the rigidity or plasticity," says Kelly JND [39] .
This was the "liturgy," taken in its broadest sense, that the first and from the outset, fixed the Tradition of the Church, and the argument of lex orandi [Rule of religion] was constantly used in the discussions at the end of the Second Century. Worship the church was a solemn proclamation of his faith. The invocation of the baptismal name was probably the oldest of the Trinitarian formula, and the Eucharist was the first witness of the mystery of redemption in all its fullness. The New Testament itself was born as "Scripture" in the Church praying. And the first reading of Scripture is made in the context of worship and meditation.
[38] See Don M. Capuyns, "The Origin of Pseudo-Célestiniens Capitula Semipélagiens the cons," Revue Benedictine , t. 41, 1929, p. 156-170; surtout Karl Federer, liturgy and faith, a theology historical investigation , Fribourg, Switzerland 1950 (Para dose = 4), Dom B. Capelle, "Autorité de la liturgy chez les Pères," Recherches de Théologie ancienne et médiévale , t. 21, 1954, p. 5-22.
[39] JND Kelly, Early Christian Creeds , London 1950, p. 167.
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