Tradition and Authority: A Vaguely Gnostic Meditation

Tradition and Authority: A Vaguely Gnostic Meditation. Hart, D. B. In Theological Territories, of A David Bentley Hart Digest, pages 98–120. University of Notre Dame Press, 2020.

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Along the uneven course of history’s flow, there are those rare odd turns in the streambed at which—due to a very special set of conditions and an entirely chance confluence of forces—an obviously bad idea can seem like an extremely good one and, before reason or good taste can intervene, it is adopted. As time passes, other unpredictable conditions conspire to preserve that initial mistake, until what began as a mishap of circumstance is transformed by the relentless alchemies of habit into a fixed element of our world, and even sometimes into an institution invested with an immemorial

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