The issue is that essentials of the faith and
theological robustness speak to the Christian creeds and not to anything about marriage.
Theological robustness is stretched beyond anything that could possibly be maintained in one theological statement.
What cracked the surface here, then, was the culture war being waged over same - sex marriage — not commitment to
theological robustness and the essentials of the faith.
Not exact matches
Benedict's own later
theological conservatism owed less to any kind of ideology, I think, than to his allergic reaction to what he saw as a lack of intellectual
robustness and spiritual seriousness in the seminaries where he taught.