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]
References
- ↑ Marriam-Webster Dictionary: Traditionalism
- ↑ Benedict XVI, Catechesis on Saint Irenaeus of Lyons As can be seen, Irenaeus did not stop at defining the concept of Tradition. His tradition, uninterrupted Tradition, is not traditionalism, because this Tradition is always enlivened from within by the Holy Spirit, who makes it live anew, causes it to be interpreted and understood in the vitality of the Church.
- ↑ Pius X, Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 26
- ↑ Marty, Martin E.; R. Scott Appleby (1994). Fundamentalisms observed. U of Chicago Press. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-226-50878-8.
- ↑ Fides et Ratio, 52
- ↑ Year of Faith. The reasonableness of faith in God The Catholic Tradition, from the outset, rejected the so-called “fideism”, which is the desire to believe against reason. Credo quia absurdum (I believe because it is absurd) is not a formula that interprets the Catholic faith.