Heresy Disguised as Tradition Quotes

“In other words, there would be no difference between Jewish and Gentile Christians, even if the latter purified their hearts through faith. They could be saved by the grace of Jesus, so they needed not any additional yoke placed upon them. Peter had taken the side of Paul. Before this authoritative decision, there were no cries of “we must follow tradition, not Peter.” On the contrary, the Bible says, once again, that those present “held their peace.”365F[367] On that day, Petrine authority was heeded, starting a venerable tradition that would become a constant throughout history and throughout this book.”
― Pedro Gabriel, Heresy Disguised as Tradition

“St. Paul’s theology seems to be an extension of this doctrinal development, a logical step forward in this reasoning. The law is not a mere adherence to a legal code external to us, but a radical adherence to a new kind of righteousness, coming from each person’s heart.”
― Pedro Gabriel, Heresy Disguised as Tradition

“Here, as in past centuries, the Church continues to manifest her divine nature and mandate by not giving in to tension, but by embracing it. People may cry: “You must choose! You must choose between Benedict XVI and Francis! You must choose between Amoris Laetitia and Veritatis Splendor! You must choose between pre-Vatican II and post-Vatican II!” And the Church will look upon these demands and will simply pass through them, drifting away from these false dichotomies, and choosing neither extreme. The Church can, in fact, do nothing else, for she is configured to the crucified Christ, with His arms extended to the point of disarticulation, embracing all of humanity and the entirety of creation.”
― Pedro Gabriel, Heresy Disguised as Tradition

“There is a mirror image of this: those who, without any authority to do so, will appoint themselves as guardians of orthodoxy and tear down the notion of pastoral care. They will demand that the Church must choose between the pureness of the faith and the messiness of reality.”
― Pedro Gabriel, Heresy Disguised as Tradition

“The present is not devoid of the same kind of tensions. In a highly secularized and hedonistic society, the greatest tension is how to balance the love for sinners with the hate for sin. The tension between orthodoxy and pastoral care. Please, bear in mind, they are not contradictory: the opposite of orthodoxy is heterodoxy, not pastoral care. However, many people today have difficulty grasping this. Secularists will evaluate this tension as too hard to bear and will demand that the Church discard orthodoxy.”
― Pedro Gabriel, Heresy Disguised as Tradition

“So, when Judaizers and Marcionists told the Church: “you have to choose,” the Church said: “I choose both the New Testament and the Old. I will part with neither.” The Church chose tension, to the scandal of both Greeks and Jews. In the same way, when Arians and Monophysites told the Church: “you have to choose,” the Church said: “Jesus is both fully human and fully divine.”
― Pedro Gabriel, Heresy Disguised as Tradition

“We are also not talking about syncretism either. The complexio oppositorum is not about finding an easy middle ground,262F[264] nor a mixture or some sort of compromise. What emerges from this process is something completely distinct and original.263F[265”
― Pedro Gabriel, Heresy Disguised as Tradition

“Spirit without institution or institution without Spirit—both are false oppositions that destroy the church. An ever-present risk.259F”
― Pedro Gabriel, Heresy Disguised as Tradition

“One cannot believe in two contradictory statements at once. If that would be so, all opinions would be true,251F[253] a notion condemned by the Church (namely by Benedict XVI) as the error of relativism.”
― Pedro Gabriel, Heresy Disguised as Tradition

“It is necessary to strip the term “dialectic” of every Hegelian resonance, and to understand it simply as the expression of a reciprocal interaction of reality . . . It could be called sineidetic thought, in which the particulars must be considered as a function of the whole.”
― Pedro Gabriel, Heresy Disguised as Tradition

“Hegelianism had a decisive influence in certain schools of materialism, pantheism, and Marxism,237F[239] which came to oppose the Church in modern times. Traditionalists picked up on this traditional Catholic mistrust for Hegel and extrapolated it to everything pertaining to this philosopher, casting doubt on Francis and the post-conciliar Church whenever they attempted some kind of dialectical synthesis.238F[240]”
― Pedro Gabriel, Heresy Disguised as Tradition

“Later, when Bergoglio was already a provincial of the Argentine Jesuits, he was shaped by the violent dialectic opposition dividing the Argentinian church and society during the 1970s.222F[224] In 1975, he would also be deeply influenced by Pope St. Paul VI’s exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi (EN), about evangelization in our times. In this papal document, Paul VI mentions several dichotomies presented to the Church as a false choice, namely: between God and the Church,223F[225] between the gospel and human development,224F[226] and between personal conversion and structural change.225F[227] For all of these dichotomies, Paul VI’s answer is: do not choose between one or the other, do not divide what God has united.226F[228] According to Paul VI, the power of evangelization is considerably diminished if the gospel is rent by doctrinal disputes and ideological polarizations.227F[229] This had a significant impact on Bergoglio’s ideas, still resonating to this day on his concept of evangelization.”
― Pedro Gabriel, Heresy Disguised as Tradition