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Not really real


It is a feature of modernity, including modern discussions of theology, to not speak of reality, but to speak of theory, of the merits of this or that hypothesis. Conversation is conducted in an artificially constructed world of platonic concepts. It is for this reason that praxis and doxa, or application and theory are separate. Drawing the line from theory to practice becomes very difficult, because the two are in different realities.


Traditional theology makes no distinction between orthodoxy and orthopraxy: the traditional liturgy is both theology and practice at the same time.


It is difficult to live in the geometric world of modern thought, endlessly pushing ideas around and never landing in what is truly real. Traditional Christianity breaks this shell in the incarnation of Christ: we mystically participate in Christ's body and can commune with the angelic abstract. We can finally see the abstract properly land in a body without producing a terrible utopia or a horrific monster.

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