Is Tradition Compatible with Critique?
Beatrice Institute, one of the sponsoring institutes of Genealogies of Modernity, produced this exciting podcast episode. This episode asks: how do we differentiate between Christian action and the action of the Church? Anne Carpenter and the Genealogy and Tradition Reading Group delve into the relationship of the Church and its people in Part Two of their interview with Anne Carpenter, author of Nothing Gained is Eternal. (You can listen to Part One here.) Anne offers a Catholic theology of tradition that is critical yet hopeful.
Continue the conversation with Anne, Ryan and the Reading Group as they discuss the Catholic imagination, poetry and questions such as: How do we adopt tradition without being duped by misinterpretation? How do we be Church for the present world?
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2:03 While we need philosophers, we also need wise neighbors who are thoughtful.
5:44 The heart of the experience of colonialism on people of is they are “forever disallowed, but also necessary.”
11:31 Favor a hermeneutic of compassion over genealogical thinking.
16:01 There’s a way to be true to tradition that redeems it by differing from it. The Church can do this by asking: How do we be Church for the present world?
24:28 “Human acts of meaning are something further than the event itself.” Poetry invites people in on these acts of meaning in an intelligible manner.
29:45 Christian action must differentiate between what is sinful and what is intelligible, or is an intelligent repetition of Christ.