by most of the official proclamations or creeds of the church. So catholic (universal) Christianity is orthodox. Church history shows us that Christian theology is not primarily a philosophical system invented by professors in the quiet of an academic study. Doctrines were hammered out by those who were on the work crew of the church. Much of orthodoxy was articulated because some heresy had arisen that threatened to change the nature of Christianity and to destroy its central faith. Since orthodoxy