“Christian tradition cannot be obeyed blindly, but it also can’t just be dismissed by the work of a few enlightened theologians working during the span of a few recent decades.”

Although not related to the real argument presented in a post here I think this quote is illustrative of a common problem many of us face. By many of us I really mean all of us, whether Christian or otherwise. We have this tendency to quickly discard old ways of thinking for new ones. We tend to think that we are more enlightened. While I think we have access to improved methods and artifacts, we are still humans within a temporal context. Within that context comes all of the same baggage (in different dress) that those of ages gone were faced with. Perhaps we are more “advanced” because we realize we have this sort of contextual baggage. This realization is by no means the definitive way of arriving at a more accurate view of world in which we live. I’m not saying new ideas should then be discarded in favor of the old. Instead, as always, we must be cautious of both.