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Essays by Rahner and Ratzinger on revelation and tradition, written during the Council's debate on Dei verbum.
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A short volume in Herder's Quaestiones disputatae (no. 25), published in 1965 by Karl Rahner and Joseph Ratzinger while the Council's constitution on revelation, Dei verbum, was being debated. Ratzinger's contribution is an essay on the concept of tradition ("Ein Versuch zur Frage des Traditionsbegriffs"). The English translation by W. J. O'Hara, Revelation and Tradition, was published by Herder and Herder in New York in 1966.
