![]() In matters both doctrinal and liturgical the real goal, even if it is not consciously held or explicitly stated, seems to be the destabilization of tradition. Liturgical primitivism is favored by the same people as a way of bypassing the massive, stabilizing, and conservative influence of venerable authorities such as the Tridentine Mass or the Book of Common Prayer. Doctrinal development seems favored in the tacit hope that doctrine will develop beyond orthodoxy: that new development will usher in and vindicate novelties, such as the ordination of women. There is, however, a common goal embedded in the two elements of this combination, and that commonality is hostility to tradition. The combination seems at first glance to be internally contradictory. ![]() ![]() ![]() A certain kind of theologian both favors the idea of the ongoing development of doctrine over time but also inclines to an extreme primitivism in matters liturgical. ![]()
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