Beware of Dead Orthodoxy

What is Dead Orthodoxy? What are the historical conditions that give rise to the phenomenon that we call dead orthodoxy. Dead orthodoxy rises in a church that has been engaged in a fierce struggle for the truth after she has been forced to make a sharp distinction between truth and error. From one point of view a period such as that is good for a church, for she is forced to give a clear and precise expression of God’s Word over against those that oppose her. The church at such time is alive,...