This probably isn't the space for me to get into all of the painstaking research and reading, prayer and spiritual wrestling that has occurred in our home as we challenged our traditional understanding of hell — truly with the heart to learn — and emerged from the discussion on the other
side of orthodoxy.
Further, I would say that heresy is the flip
side of orthodoxy.
Not exact matches
And yet we evangelicals insist on the resurrection as a criterion
of orthodoxy and largely ignore the equally prominent biblical teaching that God is on the
side of the poor and the oppressed.
Hart, Clinton and their peers were critical
of their own
side's
orthodoxies, but you couldn't imagine them jumping ship to join the Republicans.
Apparently he thinks that this is necessary because
orthodoxy and praxiology are two
sides of a single enterprise
of which apologia is the center: «Apologia..., marked by a quest for
orthodoxy and praxiology, must become the core
of theological education» (208).
Rosen and others on both
sides of the aisle are held hostage by the extremes
of party
orthodoxy.
He describes as «deplorable» the way climate change has become a gospel truth that you deny or mock at your peril, «where one
side [has] the
orthodoxy on its
side and delegitimises the views
of those who disagree, rather than engaging with them intellectually and showing them why they are wrong».