Traditionalism (religion)

Traditionalism in religious contexts can refer to traditional, orthodox doctrines or opposition to a contemporary ideology.^[1]

Tradition vs. Traditionalism

Catholicism

In the Roman Catholic Church, traditionalism is distinct from the doctrine that Sacred Tradition holds equal authority to Holy Scripture,^[2] just as the development of doctrine is distinct from modernism.^[3] Traditionalism is the ideology of returning to the worship and practices of the church to be as they were before the Second Vatican Council (1962–65).^[4]

Orthodoxy

In the Orthodox Church, scripture is considered to be the core constituent of a larger revelation.^{[citation needed]}

Protestantism

Protestant churches traditionally hold the Bible to be the only valid authority.^{[citation needed]} Inspired by the Protestant rejection of traditionalism, some in the "Age of Enlightenment" began to question even the authority of the Bible itself.^{[citation needed]} The parentage of liberalism stems from this attack on accepted notions of European traditional institutions, religious belligerence, state interference and aristocratic privilege.^{[citation needed]}

Islam

In Islam, traditionalism is the orthodox form and places importance on traditional forms of learning and acknowledges different.^{[citation needed]}

Radical Traditionalism

"Radical Traditionalism" refers to a worldview that stresses a return to traditional values of hard work, craftsmanship, local culture, tribal or clan orientation, and non-material values in response to a perceived excess of materialism, consumerism, technology, and societal homogeneity.^{[citation needed]} Most Radical Traditionalists choose this term for themselves to stress their reaction to 'modern' society, as well as their disdain for more 'recent' forms of traditionalism based on Judeo-Christian and early-Industrial Age values.^{[citation needed]} Radical Traditionalism is often allied with branches of Paganism that stress a return to old cultural values that predated the existence of the state system.^{[citation needed]}

John Paul II said in Fides et Ratio that radical traditionalism and fideism distrust the light of reason either because science debunks religious misconceptions - such as geocentrism - or because of ideologies that oppose the Catholic Faith - such as rationalism.^[5] The Church condemns radical traditionalism and fideism just as it condemns traditionalism.^[6]

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