tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182378.post4914645826411257150..comments2023-11-02T09:09:27.356-04:00Comments on getting free: I'm not writing you a new orthodoxy but an old one"T"http://www.blogger.com/profile/09410273278853015089noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182378.post-22941770493781269582008-03-04T15:32:00.000-05:002008-03-04T15:32:00.000-05:00Wonderful wonderful wonderful post! I've come back...Wonderful wonderful wonderful post! I've come back to Christianity after a 10 year hiatus and I find myself thinking the exact same things as I read certain blog articles and the discussions that follow. I wonder "Where is Jesus in all this 'orthodoxy?'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182378.post-72621629215228018512008-03-03T09:28:00.000-05:002008-03-03T09:28:00.000-05:00lames,Amen!lames,<BR/><BR/>Amen!"T"https://www.blogger.com/profile/09410273278853015089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182378.post-18174745199571845622008-03-01T12:30:00.000-05:002008-03-01T12:30:00.000-05:00loved the post. every mondday, wednesday, and frid...loved the post. every mondday, wednesday, and friday I sit in a Biblical Theology class (which I love) and we study some of these early ecumenical councils. We even get into some heated debates ourselves. <BR/><BR/>And it is in these times that i grow more and more frustrated. Often times, i doubt that these debates and councils help people grow closer to Christ. I doubt that our lives reflect Christ more accurately because of our discussion.<BR/><BR/>May all the debates and discussion and councils and panels and blogs work to the purpose of helping us to more accurately reflect Christ. May they help us love God more. May they help us love all of humanityAdam Lehmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12620504489105255984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182378.post-87558142505635898832008-02-23T10:14:00.000-05:002008-02-23T10:14:00.000-05:00Scott,On "orthodoxy", I was just going by one of t...Scott,<BR/><BR/>On "orthodoxy", I was just going by one of the meanings of the greek roots of ortho and doxos (thought or opinion), but, you're right it now has a more exclusively religious use.<BR/><BR/>Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the decisions made by the ecumenical councils were wrong or not necessary, or certainly that the nature of Jesus isn't central. My issue is that statements about Jesus have become "essential teachings" of the faith, while the teachings of Jesus have not, leading to churches filled more with affirmers of facts about Jesus than people who do what he teaches."T"https://www.blogger.com/profile/09410273278853015089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182378.post-74799460920933692662008-02-23T08:49:00.000-05:002008-02-23T08:49:00.000-05:00I think that orthodoxy "literally" means right wor...I think that orthodoxy "literally" means right worship. ;-)<BR/><BR/>More importantly, if you look at the early ecumenical councils, in most of them the essence of dispute was over the nature of Christ. How we understand Jesus was, I think, placed rightly at the center. For if we distort that reality, then we begin to try to order our own lives around and bring others into relationship with a false image of the one we call Lord. And that seems bound to create distortion both in ourselves as human beings and in the communities we form.Scott Morizothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17825458003284098965noreply@blogger.com