Tradition and Apocalypse Quotes

“All Christian communions of any size or duration have their distinctive traditionalisms, their myths of continuity amidst rupture and rupture amidst continuity, their claims of doctrinal pedigree and of allegiance to the authority of the Christian past, and their often overweening confidence regarding their own grasp of those clearly correct orthodoxies that other communions have distorted or occluded or betrayed. And all, to some degree or another, demand that history confirm them in their certitudes.”
― David Bentley Hart, Tradition and Apocalypse: An Essay on the Future of Christian Belief