This from the ongoing discussion over at The Church and Postmodern Culture:

the church and postmodern culture: conversation: Postmodernity vs. the Gospel?
concerning ‘orthodoxy’ (that slippery term), it is so often hitched to greek understanding of ‘right doctrine/thoughts’, but really it is about correct praise or worship. Orthodoxy is concern with ‘what do we mean (don’t mean) when we worshp Christ as the Risen LORD=God?’ The early church worshipped Christ, why? What the church deemed as good/true/helpful answers became ‘orthodox’ and the bad/false/harmful answers were deemed heresy. (don’t you love reductionism!!!!)

“Right praise and worship”: some outside of the more liturgically centered traditions are likely to have a sense of this being some sort of “liturgical ivory tower/isolationist” version of church. Now I KNOW this is not the case, but I sense that something needs to be emphasized here about this “Right praise and worship” being wider than the “Worship Time” observance, ie. 11am or whenever on Sunday morning. I suppose that is my “liturgically challenged” Baptist roots talking. (And I don’t put quote marks around “liturgically challenged” as some sort of cynical indication that I think liturgy strange or unimportant or “nonessential”; just to honestly indicate how I sense a true impoverishment of that aspect of ecclesia in the Baptist tradition, especially the Southern Baptist strain, both before and after the big “takeover” of the SBC in the last 20-25 years.)

I have read many of the authors talk of “Right worship” and “worship as political”, but I am certainly open to “cracking open” that issue further so that I can see further inside of it. It sounds right, but I want to understand more.