“Outside of [Eastern] Orthodoxy, have you noticed how the healthiest Christian communities around today are the ones who preach Christ, not their own denomination? They speak of Jesus, not their “Baptist,” “Methodist” or “Pentecostal” identities. Yet, all we seem to hear from our pulpits is “Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy!” We are obsessed with self-definition through negation. […]
Polemics
On Eastern Orthodox Polemics
David Bentley Hart “The most damaging consequence, however, of [Eastern] Orthodoxy’s twentieth-century pilgrimage ad fontes-and this is no small irony, given the ecumenical possibilities that opened up all along the way – has been an increase in the intensity of Eastern theology’s anti-Western polemic. Or, rather, an increase in the confidence with which such polemic […]