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Pow, A traditionalist is someone who honors and respects Christian traditions and spends a good deal of time steeping themselves in them and tries to draw from them to inform current practice.

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I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY LIKE THESE TWO (2) DEFINITIONS:

Tradition is the living faith of the dead;
traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.
(GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy)

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Instead of posting a quote extraction, let me direct ALL to the whole source. This is John of Damascus' "Exact Exposition of the Christian Faith." www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-09/Npnf2-09-29.htm#P2930_1712146 In it he refers to such things as:

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Now the Greeks declare that all our affairs are controlled by the rising and setting and collision85 of these stars, viz., the sun and moon: for it is with these matters that astrology has to do. But we hold that we get from them signs of rain and drought, cold and heat, moisture and dryness, and of the various winds, and so forth86 , but no sign whatever as to our actions. For we have been created with free wills by our Creator and are masters over our own actions. Indeed, if all our actions depend on the courses of the stars, all we do is done of necessity87 : and necessity precludes either virtue or vice. But if we possess neither virtue nor vice, we do not deserve praise or punishment, and God, too, will turn out to be unjust, since He gives good things to some and afflicts others. Nay, He will no longer continue to guide or provide for His own creatures, if all things are carried and swept along in the grip of necessity. And the faculty of reason will be superfluous to us: for if we are not masters of any of our actions, deliberation is quite superfluous. Reason, indeed, is granted to us solely that we might take counsel, and hence all reason implies freedom of will.

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Well, that quote was painless. (Note the underlining as an outline.)

If you want to go to the site, click on it. If you want to know a portion larger than the above, yet smaller than the whole, then for that I'll post a separate thread, and link to it HERE: www.gregboyd.org/gbfront/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2180

Its OUTLINE IS:

Chapter:


• XXIV. Concerning what is Voluntary and what is Involuntary


• XXV. Concerning what is in our own power, that is, concerning Free-will


• XXVI. Concerning Events


• XXVII. Concerning the reason of our endowment with Free-will.


• XXVIII. Concerning what is not in our hands


• XXIX. Concerning Providence


• XXX. Concerning Prescience and Predestination

TAKE A LOOK!

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