Orthodoxy As Habit of the Body

“Orthodoxy requires all our faculties, our reason, our imagination, our bodily habits, our affections. Straight thinking is inconsistent with crooked lives. Faith without works is dead; stories without dragons are boring; worship is a matter of sound doctrine and well-cooked meat on the grill; and a god chained to earth, however noble the portrayal, is some kind of Prometheus and not the God of Abraham. The fact that, to many, the foregoing seems to be a chain of non sequiturs helps to demonstrate the problem. We fail to see that orthodoxy is actually a bodily habit that, naturally, has to include the mind. And this is why true orthodoxy is lovely and involves the whole man” [“The Loveliness of Orthodoxy” in Bound Only Once, p. 18]