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Issue #9: Great Traditions<\/p>\n

I like the Emergent focus on the Great Traditions, but robbing and stealing from them without taking into consideration contexts is no more than ornament. You can\u2019t have Icons if you don\u2019t have a theology of nature and revelation the way the Eastern Orthodox do; and you can\u2019t have candles without a view of prayer that the Catholics do; I could go on and on. So, read the Great Traditions and learn from them, but simplistic borrowings are not genuine participations in those Traditions. Please read the great orthodox debates and you will see what I mean here. The Cappadocian fathers are worth anchoring oneself deeply into, but a brief visit with a souvenir won\u2019t do.<\/p>\n

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