An ironic orthodoxy

A Generous Orthodoxy still inhabits the world of capitalization. So while I take my stand with the generous I must say unequivocally that it is not enough to be generous. If orthodoxy is to remain useful in our vocabularies I would suggest that we require an ironic orthodoxy at least as much as a generous one.

orthodoxy is at its best when left uncapitalized and inextricably commingled with orthopraxy such that ideas and embodied instantiations are not held up as discrete units of correct belief, but as the situated hospitality of a particular community. orthodoxy is a living cosmos of loosely coupled patterns of body and mind. From the outside, when cast in terms of the ecosystem orthodoxy inhabits, we find that it is recognized as a certain hospitality in all directions: toward oneself, toward those communities that have a loose tie through a degree or two of separation and those that are in fact collectives of strangers.

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