Editor’s note: This article was originally published by kath.net in German and was translated and republished with permission from Bishop Marian Eleganti.
(LifeSiteNews) — For the philosopher of religion and priest Romano Guardini, Tradition was the richness of the knowledge of the many who preceded us in faith. Their insight into faith, which has entered into the faith Tradition of the Church in relation to many questions that still concern us today, proves to be the superior experience of faith and insight into faith, coming from a long history, compared to a single person or generation or time. Therefore, the Church sees diachronically (through the ages) more than synchronically (only today).
Why? Because the object to be conceived — Jesus Christ, i.e., God — presupposes a subject which, according to Guardini, unites all possibilities of human experience and knowledge, a community of understanding that extends through all of history and gathers the yield of different times to form Tradition. …