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Re: orthodox

Posted by Robert-I on 2009-05-26 23:19:32, Tuesday
In reply to Re: global picture posted by JohnQ on 2009-05-22 23:22:31, Friday

Thanks, brother! :)

I love Orthodox churches in general but I was using "neo-orthodox" in the sense of "A Layman's Guide to Protestant Theology" by William E. Hordern. A magnificent and much reproduced book. Neo-orthodoxy is the strain of non-fundamentalist protestantism that decided liberal christianity had deviated too far from core Christian values. In crude stereotype, we take science seriously, where fundamentalists may not, but we don't try to explain God or Christianity in terms of science, which liberals may do. We accept the divine inspiration of scripture, miracles, the reality of evil, salvation by faith, eternal life, and the divinity and humanity of Christ, but see the treasure of scripture as coming from earthen vessels, divinely inspired human consciousnesses. Thus we are not perturbed to see Adam, Eve and Job as fictional characters embedded in divine biblical youtubes that carry far more meaning than the literal version of the story could encompass.



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