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God’s Word: Scripture—Tradition—Office is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this book Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, presents the Word of God as a living reality in the Church. God’s Word, according to Ratzinger, is encountered in the Bible, in Tradition, and through the teaching office of the bishop, who, through apostolic succession, is to be the servant of and witness to the divine Word. Ratzinger examines as well the relationship between the episcopacy...

the pseudo-apostolic tradition of Gnosis. It is therefore, from the outset, closely connected with the question of what is truly apostolic; in particular, it is clear that successio and traditio were originally neighboring terms; the two concepts were at first practically synonymous and were even referred to with a single word, διαδοχή, which signified both “tradition” and “succession”.20 “Tradition” is indeed never a simple and anonymous handing on of teaching, but is linked to a person, is a living
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