Part 1
God is ancient, insofar He is "before" everything in this world. As such, we must preserve the ancients, insofar it comes from God. With that in mind, every effort or attempt to chase the new and destroy the old indiscriminately must be treated with suspicion. However, we as a world evolve and change continously, including our language. The materials of comprehension, that is the Word of God does not change, but our understanding of it does change, from the worse to the better, that is our hopes and what God intends as well.
For that reason, we produce new material to reflect our new understanding of ancient material, that is God, and to convert that ancient material into modern language. This is what I have experienced myself, when reading "An Introduction to the Metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas". I feel that we are not called to constantly make new understandings, but rather perfect our understanding of the material. Perfection does not always mean new, it can mean returning to tradition and rejecting what is new. For it is possible that the novel comes from satan.
Part 2
"Oldness" and "newness" are relative concepts, they have both objective and subjective meanings. Objectively old things have been there before us, and objectively new things have only been here in the present. However, subjectively old things are things which we as an individual have encountered for quite some time in our particular history, while the subjectively new are things which might be objectively old but we have only encountered in the relative present.
My point is that in our journey towards God, we may encounter things which are subjectively new to us, and this is a necessity. However, we must not let novelty and newness be the principle of our lives. Only God is the principle of our lives. We seek things new insofar they make us closer to God, and reject the old insofar they are of sin and the old ways. Scripture proclaims this a lot, that in the journey of God, the old is generally against God while the new is generally for God.
Yet at the same time, there are men and women holier than us which have preceeded us. With them, there are material objectively old which contains great wisdom and understanding given for us to make an example out of. For one, the Word of God has preceeded us by more or less 2000 years. In response to the objectively old and sacred, we must protect them, preserve them, and live by them, by the law of faith, that it may help us grow in holiness.
As such, things objectively old and new may be good as long as they relate to God. However, the world is unstable and tends to extremes, not knowing that in God, it is general that the middle path is what is pleasing to God. The world relishes in novelties and thinks that "progress" is the absolute rule of life, that we must constantly change. That is of course a false rule and path which will only turn people away from God and into their damnation.
This is observable and demonstrable from the course of history, and it seems the world is about to enter a cycle of false progress. Where people "feel" dissatisfied with what God has revealed and instead pursue false perfections. The rational sense towards God has seemingly been lost, where instead of resting in God, people are tempted into an eternal restlessness chasing an impossible dream. Indeed, what God has declared to be possible, that is rest in Him, the participation in divine nature, has been declared to be impossible by man.
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