question about oral tradition

[Rabbity]

Hi!

Need help from the resident experts.

I see threads (and arguments) about whether unwritten oral traditions are valid or not but I don’t have more than a piecemeal picture of those traditions actually are.

I see a couple scattered around including “the belief that the New Testament is Sacred Scripture and the Word of God” but nothing compiled into a decent list.

Is there a simple yet complete list somewhere of what those traditions are?

Thanks!

 

[Wesley7]

Its the ordained minister speaking from the pulpit. Transmitting the gospel to the audience

~ oral tradition

 

[Rabbity]

Er…thanks but not quite what I was looking for. I was curious about a list of traditions from the Catholic POV that are handed down orally but not specifically written in the bible.

 

[Jim_Dandy]

There are many threads on this subject, You can check them out using “search.” A book which explains Sacred Tradition very well.is Tradition and the Church by Msgr George Agius, which is the subject of one of the recent threads.

Once you understand what “Sacred Apostolic Tradition” means, you’ll understand why there is no list.

amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=traditions+and+the+church&x=13&y=19#/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=tradition+and+the+church&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Atradition+and+the+church

tanbooks.com/index.php/page/shop:flypage/product_id/689/keywords/tradition+church/

 

[Jim_Dandy]

Er…thanks but not quite what I was looking for. I was curious about a list of traditions from the Catholic POV that are handed down orally but not specifically written in the bible.

The list of books that belong in the Bible (the canon) came from the Sacred Oral Tradition of the Catholic Church. There is no list of the table of contents within the Bible itself. At the end of the fourth century, the Catholic Church selected 27 of her own writings, canonized them, and named them the New Testament. She canonized the 46 writings of the Greek Septuagint inherited from Jesus and the Apostles and named them the Old Testament. Her entire collection of Sacred Scripture she named Tá Biblia – The Bible, The Church is much older than the Bible – she was about 350 years old at the time she compiled and named the Bible.

Once again, when you understand the meaning of Sacred Apostolic Tradition, you’ll understand why a list, such as the one you’re looking for, cannot be compiled.

Are there any lists of Protestant traditions that are not found in the Bible? (They didn’t come from the Apostles, of course.) Not that I know of.

Jim Dandy
Ex-Southern Baptist, ex-agnostic, ex-atheist, ecstatic to be Catholic!

 

[Rabbity]

Okay, thanks. I’ll run down to the local Catholic shop and pick up a copy.

 

[Crumpy]

When you read Agius’ book on tradition and the Church, you will see that the title of this entire forum “Traditional Catholicism” is redundant.

Catholic means universal, but beyond that, it refers to the religion of tradition going back to Christ and the apostles.