Liturgy and tradition are the blueprints and roadmap of the world to come. They are not handed down to us from the past, they are handed down to us from the future. We cast them aside at our peril, risking becoming lost and bewildered on our way home.
I suspect that if clear thinkers and readers had not defined basic truths at Nicea and Chalcedon, and we had to assemble them in our day to do it, we could not find enough to come close to what they did.
Liturgy and tradition are the blueprints and roadmap of the world to come. They are not handed down to us from the past, they are handed down to us from the future. We cast them aside at our peril, risking becoming lost and bewildered on our way home.
Another wielder of fractured legacies in Rivendell is Bilbo, chronicling and composing poems/songs (and even Aragorn helps).
I suspect that if clear thinkers and readers had not defined basic truths at Nicea and Chalcedon, and we had to assemble them in our day to do it, we could not find enough to come close to what they did.