Well I've been promising a post on this subject for a while now, but in reality I have very little developed thought on it. By jotting down a few initial ideas in the next two posts I merely hope to clarify to myself, and to anyone else who is reading this, what I have been trying to get my head around for the last few weeks.
I spose that central to my thinking recently has been an increasing awareness that to posit Christian orthodoxy as a fidelity to a specific set of cultural values/a way of doing church, is wrongheaded. It is an elevation of the human framework of religious interpretation and expression over the central doctrines that that framework is supposed to be grounded in.
In saying this it is not my attention to deny the importance of religion itself. For heavenly truth to be grasped, interpreted and enacted within the world it of course needs the earthly - the skills and effort of that same world's practitioners. Yet having said this, it strikes me as self-evident that Christian orthodoxy must be rooted in divine truth and not in the process of divine truth's translation into practical knowledge and practice on earth. Orthodoxy must surely be about the continual affirmation of the centrality and distinctiveness of the Christian understanding of God, and not the centrality of certain human consturcts that this centrality has inspired.
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