Coram Deo
Puritan Board Junior
What is the true definition of Dead Orthodoxy?
I have heard the term said most of my life by different people about different things. I guess it is sorta like the word Hyper-Calvinist. Everyone has there own definition of the word. It would seem like the great awakenings was called because the former (old order) churches were called into dead orthodoxy which I question now. I see the old order more interested in a balance of both Correct Doctrine and Correct Praxy. Those who called the Old order Dead orthodoxy swung the pendulum in the wrong direction which has lead us today into death ortho-praxy and hyper-pietism.
So anyway, I have been trying to formulate what exactly is dead orthodoxy..
Is it
A. Correct Doctrine without a change (regenerate heart)
B. Correct Doctrine without a correct practical outworking (Ortho-Praxy)
C. Correct Doctrine without a Zeal! A lack of zeal for the Word or for Souls!
D. A Combination of A leads to B which leads to C.
E. A lack of Emotional experience in worship
F. Formalism (A strict rigidness in worship)
G. Other (Please explain)
Also where does Dead Ortho-Praxy fit in today?
Correct practical outworking of salvation with a lack of zeal for correct doctrine?
What are your thoughts?
I have heard the term said most of my life by different people about different things. I guess it is sorta like the word Hyper-Calvinist. Everyone has there own definition of the word. It would seem like the great awakenings was called because the former (old order) churches were called into dead orthodoxy which I question now. I see the old order more interested in a balance of both Correct Doctrine and Correct Praxy. Those who called the Old order Dead orthodoxy swung the pendulum in the wrong direction which has lead us today into death ortho-praxy and hyper-pietism.
So anyway, I have been trying to formulate what exactly is dead orthodoxy..
Is it
A. Correct Doctrine without a change (regenerate heart)
B. Correct Doctrine without a correct practical outworking (Ortho-Praxy)
C. Correct Doctrine without a Zeal! A lack of zeal for the Word or for Souls!
D. A Combination of A leads to B which leads to C.
E. A lack of Emotional experience in worship
F. Formalism (A strict rigidness in worship)
G. Other (Please explain)
Also where does Dead Ortho-Praxy fit in today?
Correct practical outworking of salvation with a lack of zeal for correct doctrine?
What are your thoughts?