
223: Dreher - Cultivate Cultural Memory
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Is Tradition Critical?
Tradition critical. It's a critical acceptance of tradition. You ought to remember how to remember, but you also have to take into consideration and think critically. I ive used the analogy, i think, at least a practical example of this. Is where tradition is done well is in the hymnals of the church. What you see as they receive that which which should be received,. can continue forward, reject that which was timely. But like, i don't know, probably 30 % of the things in our current hymnal won't be in the next hymnal because we tried them - maybe they were appropriate for the time. Maybe they really weren't. They weren't
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