Although considerable areas of disagreement remain, the long antagonistic Catholic and Protestant views on the relation of scripture and tradition have grown more and more closer. Within the Catholic community one of the leading forces behind this ecumenical rapprochement has been Josef Rupert Geiselmann of the University of Tubingen. In the present book Geiselmann shows that in the earliest period of Christianity it was by tradition that God's revelation in Christ was communicated and handed down. While this tradition was unique, as a religious phenomenon its roots went back to the common tradition first evident in primitive man and expressed in its purest state in the divinely sanctioned tradition of the chosen people. It is one of the major achievements of his treatment of this subject that Geiselmann re-establishes the orthodoxy of many of the underlying insights of de Lamennais' particularly as these were incorporated into the teachings of tire ecole romantique of Tubingen' In the last part of this study the author discusses the nature of religious tradition as a universal human reality which attains its highest perfection in the Judaeo-Christian tradition.