by Haralambos Ventis
Our long-standing captivity to a sad caricature of Orthodoxy that
could be called “orthodoxism,” and whose main characteristics will be
summarized in what follows, has been largely consolidated by a
widespread attitude in the Church known as “the fear of theology.” It is
this fear that has propelled the substitution of theology with a
shallow, stale “spirituality” based on an excess of pious yet vacuous
sentimentalism.