{"id":31535,"date":"2015-10-12T11:20:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T16:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=31535"},"modified":"2015-10-12T11:23:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T16:23:14","slug":"from-the-synod-hall-the-unchanging-two-thousand-year-tradition-of-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/12\/from-the-synod-hall-the-unchanging-two-thousand-year-tradition-of-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Synod Hall: The \u201cunchanging two-thousand year tradition of the church\u201d (?)"},"content":{"rendered":"

News bits emerge here and there from the synod in Rome, for example in the very well-written blog of Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane, Australia, \u201cOn the Road Together,<\/a>\u201d which I heartily recommend.<\/p>\n

There is also the \u201cSynodenblog<\/a>\u201d of Abbot Jeremias Schr\u00f6der OSB, president of the Ottilian Benedictines, which is the real topic of this post. What the abbot says about the \u201cunchanging two-thousand year tradition of the church\u201d will be of interest to Pray Tell<\/em> readers, for misunderstanding have often arisen here around what is supposedly unchanging throughout church history.<\/p>\n

Abbot Jeremias writes today (my translation):<\/em><\/p>\n

Again and again, speeches in the aula speak of the unchanging two-thousand year tradition of the church. This disturbs those who know what it was really like. One (speaker)<\/em> recalled the blessed theologian and cardinal John Henry Newman, who wrote a famous essay in 1845 with the title \u201cOn the Development of Christian Doctrine.\u201d On Saturday there spoke a synod father who, in three minutes, gave a rapid summary of the changes in medieval teaching on marriage. As I congratulated him afterward, he said, \u201cThat was the topic of my doctoral thesis.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is also interesting: Abbot Jeremias refers to \u201can American church leader\u201d who warned of the dangers of regional competence and made reference to Luther and Erasmus of Rotterdam \u2013 he obviously means Archbishop Chaput<\/a>\u00a0of Philadelphia. The abbot remarks:<\/p>\n

And only at the end (of Chaput’s speech)<\/em> does one note, if one notes it then, that, in a cryptic manner, an important synod figure was in fact accused of being a second Martin Luther.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And this: it seems that one speaker spoke of the \u201csmoke of Satan in the synod aula.\u201d Oh my.<\/p>\n

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