{"id":1251,"date":"2004-08-31T13:34:26","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T17:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2009-01-16T17:32:25","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T21:32:25","slug":"praxy-and-doxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/08\/praxy-and-doxy\/","title":{"rendered":"Praxy and Doxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Hatch continues his coup over at the liberalmediablog, with an interesting post on whether the church values orthodoxy (right belief) over orthopraxy (right action).  <a href=\"http:\/\/rameumptom.blogspot.com\/2004\/08\/few-thoughts-on-believing-and-doing.html\">John notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>If I don&#8217;t show up to help someone in Elder&#8217;s Quorum move, no one says a word. If I miss my home teaching, no one calls to chastise me. If I don&#8217;t sign up to do a cannery assignment, not a word of disapproval is uttered in my direction. . . .  When I mentioned that the Melchizedek Priesthood was probably restored in 1830 and not 1829, two people were so angry I thought after Church they&#8217;d be heading to the hardware store to pick up torches and pitchforks.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Why might heterodoxy be considered a greater threat than heteropraxy?  (If it is indeed so considered, that is).  My intuition is that it might be because heterodoxy looks like an active rebellion, while heteropraxy looks more like a natural process of decay.  But it does seem like a strange prioritization system &#8212; I suspect that more people fall away from the church because their home teachers didn&#8217;t visit them than fall away because they&#8217;re worried about Zelph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Hatch continues his coup over at the liberalmediablog, with an interesting post on whether the church values orthodoxy (right belief) over orthopraxy (right action). John notes: If I don&#8217;t show up to help someone in Elder&#8217;s Quorum move, no one says a word. If I miss my home teaching, no one calls to chastise me. If I don&#8217;t sign up to do a cannery assignment, not a word of disapproval is uttered in my direction. . . . When I mentioned that the Melchizedek Priesthood was probably restored in 1830 and not 1829, two people were so angry I thought after Church they&#8217;d be heading to the hardware store to pick up torches and pitchforks. Why might heterodoxy be considered a greater threat than heteropraxy? (If it is indeed so considered, that is). My intuition is that it might be because heterodoxy looks like an active rebellion, while heteropraxy looks more like a natural process of decay. But it does seem like a strange prioritization system &#8212; I suspect that more people fall away from the church because their home teachers didn&#8217;t visit them than fall away because they&#8217;re worried about Zelph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggernacle","tag-around-the-blogs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5727,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions\/5727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}