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Just read an essay arguing that orthopraxy can only be the fruit of orthodoxy. This is, among other things, an assertion about the real world. Supporting examples should be abundant. Counter-examples should be all but non-existent. And yet.
This is a widespread theological claim, but those making it are weirdly incurious about whether such a thing exists in the wild. It's couched as an abstraction, but it deals with outcomes -- with measurable, documentable, falsifiable/confirmable outcomes.
Like, OK, it is possible that we can look at the world and see there that, in fact, the most scrupulously "orthodox" adherents and proponents of "true doctrine" are also the most outstanding exemplars of love, faith, hope, justice, courage, mercy, patience, etc. ...
Is that how it appears to you? Is that how it has ever, in any time or place, appeared to anyone?
