Traditionalism
adherence to tradition as authority, especially in matters of religion.
a system of philosophy according to which all knowledge of religious truth is derived from divine revelation and received by instruction.
Contemporary Examples
“Within its 1806 embodiment of the cocktail incarnate—spirit, sweetner, bitters, water—there is traditionalism,” Simonson writes.
The Rise and Fall…and Rise Again of the Old-Fashioned Allison McNearney June 13, 2014
Historical Examples
Still more valuable perhaps is the intuitiveness of rare great minds, their traditionalism and their inherited qualities.
Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Various
Another danger in an interpreting body is that of traditionalism.
Understanding the Scriptures Francis McConnell
Without English traditionalism we should hardly have had the English countryside.
Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne
The traditionalism of centuries was opposed to any such view.
Jesus the Christ James Edward Talmage
traditionalism, wherever it is found, is the enemy, because traditionalism is only another name for indolence.
Recent Developments in European Thought Various
Her philosophic literature knows no mean between the traditionalism of Confucius and the nihilism of Chuang-tz.
A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems Various
His philosophy is a mixture of pantheistic ontology, rationalism, platonism and traditionalism.
The Jesuits, 1534-1921 Thomas J. Campbell
The priesthood can gather its people together for war, but its traditionalism and all its methods unfit it for military control.
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind Herbert George Wells
Chesterton stands for the later conservative reaction to all this, for ecclesiasticism, nationalism, and traditionalism.
Six Major Prophets Edwin Emery Slosson
noun
the doctrine that all knowledge originates in divine revelation and is perpetuated by tradition
adherence to tradition, esp in religion
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