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Beyond Nostalgia: The Risk of Orthodoxy
Vol. 17, No. 5 • Sep/Oct 2008
Orthodoxy has fallen out of favor among evangelicals. Among a growing number of younger evangelicals, the fight for orthodoxy is seen as a power play that attempts to overthrow community and diversity with certainty and authoritarianism. Among those of a different generation and ethos, orthodoxy is seen as a sort of supernatural baking powder that […]
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Orthodoxy has fallen out of favor among evangelicals. Among a growing number of younger evangelicals, the fight for orthodoxy is seen as a power play that attempts to overthrow community and diversity with certainty and authoritarianism. Among those of a different generation and ethos, orthodoxy is seen as a sort of supernatural baking powder that […]
Whose Orthodoxy?
Everywhere we turn today, “faith” has become an attitude in search of an object: you’ve got to believe in something. We hear a lot about “faith com-munities” as a genus of which particular religions are regarded as species; “faith perspectives,” even “faith-based” political initiatives. Prince Charles has intimated that upon his succession to Britain’s throne […]
Taking History Seriously in an Ahistorical Age
Among the most daunting challenges I have faced as a college professor has been the task of convincing my students that the study of history is an intrinsically worthwhile project. Perhaps accounting and engineering majors have always been a hard-sell in this regard, but the pervasive antihistorical spirit of our contemporary culture makes many students […]
Whose Orthodoxy?
Who defines the content of “orthodoxy”? Every society has a constitution and the canon of the covenant of grace by which our Ascended King reigns is his Word, Holy Scripture. While the church needs its courts to interpret this constitution, it is always the fallible interpreter and never the infallible source. Only when the church […]
Distractions from Orthodoxy
“Orthodoxy” now has a fairly clear definition. The church’s historic creeds and confessions have continued to affirm the basic realities of the Apostles’ Creed and Nicene Creed, and the respective communions have refined their own distinctives. The boundaries of orthodoxy, whether generically considered or considered within the church’s respective branches, are fairly well established. We […]
Can Orthodoxy Be Missional?
If you know someone heading out of seminary or a graduate school of theology eager to apply that confessional missionary zeal of their denominational fathers to a calling parish, then it’s likely they will be in for a rude awakening rather than a great one. Increasingly throughout Reformation orthodoxy, greenhorn pastors like myself-as well as […]
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“Moreover, they unjustly set the ancient fathers against us (I mean the ancient writers of a better age of the church) as if in them they had supporters of their own impiety. If the contest were to be determined by patristic authority, the tide of victory — to put it very modestly — would turn […]
Did Constantine Change the Day of Worship?
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