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Every generation faces the temptation to wander from orthodoxy—to seek out the jolt that comes with false teaching, and to drift with cultural currents. And so every generation must be awakened again to the thrill of orthodoxy, and experience the astonishment that comes from stumbling afresh upon the electrifying paradoxes at the heart of the Christian faith.
In The Thrill of Orthodoxy, Trevin Wax turns the tables on those who believe Christian teaching is narrow and outdated. Returning to the church's creeds, he explains what orthodoxy is and why we can have proper confidence in it, and lays out common ways we can stray from it. By showing how heresies are always actually narrower than orthodoxy—taking one aspect of the truth and wielding it as a weapon against others—Wax shows us that false teaching ultimately proves bland and boring, and that orthodoxy is where true adventure can be found.
Table of Content
Foreword by Kevin J. Vanhoozer
1. This I Believe
2. Drifting from Orthodoxy
3. Rediscovering the Adventure
4. Why the Details Matter
5. The Narrowness of Heresy
6. Truth Taking On the World
7. Eternal Stakes, Epic Battle
8. The Exhilarating Vision
9. The Beating Heart
10. The Future of Orthodoxy
Acknowledgments
Next Steps Reading List
The Chalcedonian Definition
A Reforming Catholic Confession
Notes
About the author
Kevin J. Vanhoozer (Ph D, Cambridge University) is Research Professor of Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He is the author of many works, including First Theology, The Drama of Doctrine and is coauthor with Daniel Treier of Theology and the Mirror of Scripture.
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