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To: verdadjusticia

verdadjusticia:

YOPIOS, having read a little of Chesterton myself, refers most likely to “Your own personal interpretation of Scripture”. While he specifically never maybe used that terminology, he was a constant critic of Individulalism, which ultimately much of Protestantism ultimately relys on, i.e. I will read the bible for myself and determine what it means, etc.

One of my favorite Chesterton quotes is

“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.” - Orthodoxy, 1908

Here is a brief forward written about Chesterton for a book about him

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+splendour+of+truth.(COLUMNIST)-a0162183854


58 posted on 01/13/2010 8:59:01 PM PST by CTrent1564
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To: CTrent1564; verdadjusticia

“Your own personal interpretation of Scripture”

Yup. There’s a nifty graphic that goes along with it, but I’m not set up for that just now. Maybe someone else will post it.


59 posted on 01/13/2010 9:03:31 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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