Totius Traditionis Mirabile Sacramentum: Toward a Theology of Tradition in the Light of Dei Verbum

The organizers of the meeting from which these essays flow posed to speakers a number of questions.¹ One ran thus: “How, . . . in our own secularized era can the documents [of Vatican II] serve the tasks of theology, and advance the cause of Christian unity?” This chapter suggests an answer to at least the first part of this question, and it does so with respect to Dei Verbum. The council’s constitution on divine revelation should be a central resource for thinking about the nature and tasks of theology today, but many of its most important passages have been