I love the didache–I also find it unsettling how early some practices formed. It certainly pushes against some of the minimalist house churchy understandings floating around today.

The thing I love the most about it is how everything flows out of love of God and neighbor…that is seen as the centering and driving impetus for the document. What if everything we wrote and said was similar in that regard?

To me, this is the most important writing project Tony's offered. Good work Tony, and thanks, Jonathan, for helping get the word out.

I love the didache–I also find it unsettling how early some practices formed. It certainly pushes against some of the minimalist house churchy understandings floating around today.

The thing I love the most about it is how everything flows out of love of God and neighbor…that is seen as the centering and driving impetus for the document. What if everything we wrote and said was similar in that regard?

To me, this is the most important writing project Tony's offered. Good work Tony, and thanks, Jonathan, for helping get the word out.

I appreciated Trucker Frank's insight. The Didache is in many ways a living out of theology, or ethics, but it was a document that seems fresh because it is not shaped by our present history. It is the moment when they were still trying to figure out what Jesus really meant.

I appreciated Trucker Frank's insight. The Didache is in many ways a living out of theology, or ethics, but it was a document that seems fresh because it is not shaped by our present history. It is the moment when they were still trying to figure out what Jesus really meant.

The Didache talks about loving the God who made us…about loving one another, about giving to the poor, living simply, about fleeing from sin, about baptising in the name of the Father and Son and Spirit in living water, about praying the Lord's prayer (the Didache uses the Matthean formulation), about life and knowledge being made known through Jesus Christ the Son, and about waiting for the Day of the Lord. There is other stuff in there too, but these things alone are VERY theological. They have implications for how we think, as well as how we do, since these things are intrinsically inter-related.

The only way, it seems to me, to get past the sort of growing dichotomy between theology and ethics is to refuse to allow theology to mean something distinct from ethics. In other words, our theology–our thoughts and beliefs about God–should, perhaps, be anchored in praxis. Praxis brings together both action and reflection, and is a sufficient anchor for theology.

The Didache talks about loving the God who made us…about loving one another, about giving to the poor, living simply, about fleeing from sin, about baptising in the name of the Father and Son and Spirit in living water, about praying the Lord's prayer (the Didache uses the Matthean formulation), about life and knowledge being made known through Jesus Christ the Son, and about waiting for the Day of the Lord. There is other stuff in there too, but these things alone are VERY theological. They have implications for how we think, as well as how we do, since these things are intrinsically inter-related.

The only way, it seems to me, to get past the sort of growing dichotomy between theology and ethics is to refuse to allow theology to mean something distinct from ethics. In other words, our theology–our thoughts and beliefs about God–should, perhaps, be anchored in praxis. Praxis brings together both action and reflection, and is a sufficient anchor for theology.