butterfly theology
I really liked this post from .:dydimustk:. about mounted theology:
Theology is meant to be alive. It is meant to be lived out day to day in the reality of life. When we write it down as religious policy we mount it as some beautiful answer to an ugly question, and we kill it. It may last for a long time preserved in pristine perfection, but it is no longer alive nor capable of interacting with the real world.
We are called to love as Christ. Yet for some reason, people want to make a list of what is love and what isn’t, to set a policy on how to handle each sinful situation.
Trememdously challenging for the church. Why? Because it is so much harder to deal with the world on a case by case basis, with messiness and lack of certainty and divine guidance and regret and conflicted agonising over the right choice.
It is much easier to “mount” theology in the way that is being described, because then it is easy to apply and be seen as being consistent and having integrity.
The fact is, that the absolutes that are inherent in the message of Christ are much less inclined to be shoved in a nice clear box than we seem to think. The absolutes of love, grace, justice, mercy and compassion can be expresed in an infinite variety of ways. The core value is absolute, but the expression is up for grabs.
Anyway, go and read the whole post as it is very thought-provoking.