@NEETzsche @pressure Chemnitz addresses this in his examination of Trent. I don’t expect you to read it because it’s expensive as shit and there are no PDF’s, but the summary is: Lutherans affirm the Holy Tradition of the Church in most senses of the term. We just disagree that it can trump Scripture.

The Papists tried to say that the words of Scripture have to be interpreted through the lense of whatever the Church is already doing, which is automatically inferred to be traditional because Rome supposedly has the charism of indefectibility. Lutherans contend that Scripture has a clear meaning in its own rite, and that the Papists were violating it, which disproves the charism.

There’s a lot of history that goes into this debate that’s not really worth covering, because nowadays you can just point at Pope Francis and plainly see “Oh, yeah, this whole thing is ridiculous.”