“Christian freedom is a quiet laughter, not the harsh laughter of a
defensive apocalypticism that cannot distinguish a minor cultural crises
from the End of Days. It is a laughter rooted in unmerited grace and
historical awareness that knows that it need not grovel before either the
dogmas or the myopias of a particular time. This freedom is what I
prefer to call liberated orthodoxy ...”
~ Thomas Oden ~
defensive apocalypticism that cannot distinguish a minor cultural crises
from the End of Days. It is a laughter rooted in unmerited grace and
historical awareness that knows that it need not grovel before either the
dogmas or the myopias of a particular time. This freedom is what I
prefer to call liberated orthodoxy ...”
~ Thomas Oden ~
