{"id":777,"date":"2006-08-02T15:58:19","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T15:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=777"},"modified":"2006-08-02T15:58:19","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T15:58:19","slug":"practical_orthodoxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"Practical Orthodoxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From The Very Rev. Alan Jones&#8217; book, <em>Common Prayer on Common Ground<\/em>, on Anglican orthodoxy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><br \/>\n&#8220;Salvation isn&#8217;t the ultimate reward fro believing abstract doctrines.  Salvation is experienced through grace as our lives are &#8216;converted,&#8217; and conversion is an ongoing process.  Doctrine is practical.  It has to do with <\/em>practice<em>, with what the tradition calls &#8216;the experimental knowledge of God.&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8220;To be truly orthodox, doctrine must have an impact on the moral life.  I remember some years ago a man screaming at the philosopher Jacob Needleman that to be a Christian you had to believe in the physical resurrection of Jesus.  Needleman took the wind out of the young man&#8217;s sails and said, &#8216;Yes, you do.  Now tell me, what does it mean?  Tell me what difference it makes!&#8217;  The young man had nothing to say.  An elderly retired priest angrily thundered at me: &#8216;Do you believe in the <\/em>homoousian?&#8217;<em> (this is the doctrine that Jesus Christ is of the same substance as the Father).  I said, &#8216;Yes, I do, but the more important question is why don&#8217;t you love me?&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Very Rev. Alan Jones&#8217; book, Common Prayer on Common Ground, on Anglican orthodoxy: &#8220;Salvation isn&#8217;t the ultimate reward fro believing abstract doctrines. Salvation is experienced through grace as our lives are &#8216;converted,&#8217; and conversion is an ongoing process. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=777\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}