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The Messiness of Orthodoxy

I seem to be on an orthodoxy kick these days.  Drawing on an article by Garret Keizer in  April 22 edition of Christian Century I offer this citation from Kenneth Leech that speaks well for my own view on these matters:

The rejection of paradox and ambiguity is the characteristic of heretics in all ages.  Heresy is one-dimensional, narrow, over-simplified, and boring.  It is straight-line thinking, preferring a pseudo-clarity to the many sidedness of truth, tidiness to the mess and complexity of reality.  Orthodoxy by comparison is rooted in the unknowable. 


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