Note: This was originally posted last week, but lost in the Blogger crackup. I've reconstructed it as best I could.
"Traditio" - much more than just doing the same old thing in the same old way
The Traditio Legis and Traditio Clavum
From Wikipedia:
The English word "tradition" comes from the Latin traditio, the noun from the verb traderere or tradere (to transmit, to hand over, to give for safekeeping); it was originally used in Roman law to refer to the concept of legal transfers and inheritance.
From Augusta State University website:
The Traditio Legis is an iconographic type in the earliest Christian art. It has Christ with St. Peter, or with St. Peter and St. Paul, handing to one of them a scroll that represents the law, as above. There was a similar secular type in which the enthroned Emperor hands over a scroll, expressing his role as lawgiver.
In later centuries the "keys to the kingdom" of Matthew became St. Peter's primary attribute, and the Traditio Legis image had him receiving the keys while the scroll went to St. Paul.
The kind of narrative image that uses keys to represent the episode in Matthew 16 is sometimes referred to as theTraditio Clavum.
The Traditio Legis is an iconographic type in the earliest Christian art. It has Christ with St. Peter, or with St. Peter and St. Paul, handing to one of them a scroll that represents the law, as above. There was a similar secular type in which the enthroned Emperor hands over a scroll, expressing his role as lawgiver.
In later centuries the "keys to the kingdom" of Matthew became St. Peter's primary attribute, and the Traditio Legis image had him receiving the keys while the scroll went to St. Paul.
The kind of narrative image that uses keys to represent the episode in Matthew 16 is sometimes referred to as theTraditio Clavum.
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