Another way of putting this is to say that traditions never stand still—they are always being redefined by arguments from within them as well as by challenges from outside of them (often other, competing traditions). But, allowing for this level of argumentation and change, a tradition must have achieved a relative degree of stability to be accorded the status of a tradition. So these traditions are influential in our lives, and it is within these traditions that we live and pursue our own narrative quests.
