But the Friends» ethos and ways are difficult and must be learned — a kind
of orthopraxy.
I believe that as we reflect and dialogue on the implications of a Trinitarian grounding for mission,
contextual orthopraxy will emerge.
Within the church, the Quakers are united
through orthopraxy: We have a similar set of practices, even as certain churches push those boundaries with liturgies (programmed worship) and pastoral leadership of worship.
She needs to be told that all the Christians, like many commenting on this article, who believe our salvation comes from orthodoxy (right belief) and not
from orthopraxy (right living) are barking up the wrong tree.
Of course, James was concerned
with orthopraxy far more than with eschatological reasons; while obedience to the law leads to God's approval, it also liberates those who are impoverished and promotes the well - being of the community as a whole.
Such language reflects not only traditional Jewish emphasis
on orthopraxy or «right practice» over orthodoxy or «right belief» but also a growing Christian awareness of the theological importance of practices.
The essence
of orthopraxy is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
In fundamentalism, a definite orthodoxy is linked to a
specific orthopraxy, forming a manifest power structure that will, it is believed, confirm its truth to history (although not always within history).
Not that I think bad theology is a good idea, but for Anabaptists, living the Kingdom and doing right (
orthopraxy) has always taken precedence over theorizing about the Kingdom and being right (hyper - orthodoxy).
And while you might get your orthodoxy right, and even
your orthopraxy, if you can find orthopathos, the family will never forget you or the God you represent.
Quakerism isn't a system — an orthodoxy; Quakerism is a system of practices —
an orthopraxy.
The kind of
orthopraxy that exists among many Christians is a devotional orthopraxy, or a syncretic orthopraxy, and so long as some of the clergy don't know about that, it coexists, and to the degree that some of the clergy find out about it, they get themselves terribly excited and think that they should be able to eradicate it.»
It is not ultimately upheld by any orthodoxy or
orthopraxy, by shrill pieties or by militant fundamentalisms.
We believe that both camps err in major and minor ways in regard to orthodoxy and
orthopraxy.
I think the evangelical community has gotten to a point where it is so steeped in modernism's emphasis on rationalism that it is obsessed with apologetics, emphasizing orthodoxy (right belief) over
orthopraxy (right action).
I also appreciate his emphasis on
orthopraxy.