Totum Totum? Partim Partim?

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I would like to know your opinions on this, folks. Which view on the connection between Scripture and Tradition do you hold to? The Partim Partim view_ or The Totum Totum view?
The partim partim view means that Divine Revelation is revealed PARTLY in Scripture, PARTLY in Tradition.
The totum totum view means that all of Divine Revelation in Scripture is also found in Tradition, and vice versa.

And I have a follow up question: Which of the 2 views should I believe? Am I even required to choose 1 of the 2?
 
From the two views I tend towards this “totum totum” view. If you research in depth you will see that Tradition did not develop outside what is written in the Bible, the whole Bible including the Old Testament.
But I never heard of these two views being separate and presented as such so, like @Roseeurekacross I would like some source for what you ask here.
I googled “totum totum view Catholic” and the only relevant link I found this thread right here. So …any other sources?
 
Since it’s the story of the people of God who made the Word of God visible on earth, I would say totum Totum view.

Since the dawn of time there has always been a People of God that with their own lives make the Word of God visible on earth. Right behind those lives making the Word of God visible has always been an oral tradition. A tradition of remembrance. Behind the life of Moses and the Hebrews was a written tradition that had recorded the lives and times. Then Jesus came and confirmed that tradition in Truth of Him and again the lives of the People of God made visible with their bodies the Word of God. They wrote letters and their lives with Jesus were documented. They passed down the Word of God to their chosen successors and they continued the Word of God by preaching the Gospel and passing it down guided by the Holy spirit and guarded by the Bishops.

The People of God make the Word of God visible with their lives. They begin a living tradition that is passed down generation to generation. Everything that faithfully documents their life is their written tradition.and they keep living it after it is written.

To me neither is accurate. or both together. I think an example would be the life of Jesus’ Mother. Her maternal bond and mother’s love of God transcends anything that can possibly be written. So we have a tradition of prayer that draws from the ponderings of her heart. Since who she mothered from an infant to a man, is the Beginning and the End of all things, her heart stores a history that can’t be contained in written tradition but all Tradition is in her heart. The rosary isn’t in the bible the bible is in the rosary.
 
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I also have seen this only on Trent Horn’s book “The case for Catholicism” and his citation of Yves Congar, a Dominican theologian and his work, Meaning of Tradition. I know no source besides the two.
 
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