A Slight Breeze
Orthodoxy then is not so much a settled system of beliefs as a ‘tool,’ a set of self-reflective practices, ‘a tradition of discriminating, imaging and symbolising.’ It is the church’s therapeutic response to the trauma of Christ’s resurrection. The church remains orthodox only to the extent that it remains attentive and answerable to that universal event which lies at the origin of its life.
---Christ the Stranger: The Theology of Rowan Williams, by Benjamin Myers, pg 47
A Slight Breeze
Orthodoxy then is not so much a settled system of beliefs as a ‘tool,’ a set of self-reflective practices, ‘a tradition of discriminating, imaging and symbolising.’ It is the church’s therapeutic response to the trauma of Christ’s resurrection. The church remains orthodox only to the extent that it remains attentive and answerable to that universal event which lies at the origin of its life.
---Christ the Stranger: The Theology of Rowan Williams, by Benjamin Myers, pg 47