“Indeed the word doctrine,
a word fallen on hard times in contemporary culture, actually means a ‘healing
teaching,’ from the French word for doctor.
The creeds, as doctrinal statements, were intended as healing instruments, life
giving words that would draw God’s people into a deeper engagement with divine
things. When creeds become fences to mark the borders of heresy, they lose
their spiritual energy. Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of
God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people.”* – Diana Butler
Bass (Christianity after Religion)
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