By my reading, the history of modernity should be understood in terms of the practical loss of love rather than
doctrinal confusion.
Why the gross
doctrinal confusion?
Bynum allows us to see
that doctrinal confusions, indecisions and oppositions are grounded in a clash of images.
We modern - day Timothys also struggle to pastor, to persevere and remain faithful in the midst of today's
doctrinal confusions.
Not exact matches
In fact, it's almost certainly the case that, for many of those who came into full communion with the Catholic Church from other Christian communities, it was the
doctrinal and moral
confusions in the community of their baptism that led them to seek a Church that knew what it believed, why (and Who) it worshipped, and how it proposed that we should live.
By contrast,
doctrinal evolution in which a new teaching sublates and eliminates the earlier teaching in a quasi-Hegelian fashion breeds dissolution,
confusion, and death.