Jesuology,  Jesuolatry,  Christology, Christianity and Christianisms.  It's odd that I find kinship with a such a conservative theologian as Hodge when he warns against "bibliolatry" while at the same time having sympathies for the most liberal of Christians: Shleiermacher and Spong.   

Two points have driven my recent thinking (which is, in fact, quite recent as I've avoided theologising for about a year): 

1) We cannot continue to confuse our descriptions of divine work with the divine itself (that would be idolatry) and

2) Orthodox understandings of Christ have ceased to be meaningful to any but the most resolute hold-outs of a dualistic worldview.

These have been the underpinnings of a year of alienation, angst, and ambivalence towards my Christian heritage.  

For any of you wondering where I got to over the last year (your existence is doubtful but I'll appreciate the sentiment as though you actually exist) I had all but decided that it was easiest to chuck the proverbial baby with the bathwater.  I wrestled with the second point to no avail.  Orthodox theology and Creedal Christianity are inexorably tied to an outmoded 'supernaturalist' understanding of the universe.  Salvation theology is bound to an understanding of good and evil that no longer makes sense, and attempts from literalizers to shore up the authority of the Bible are sad tautologies that only convince the already convinced.  I have however come to an understanding of Jesus that allows him to continue to be meaningful in a unique and powerful way which is a relief.  My previous understanding left him as a wandering preacher with a special connection to God whose death helped show us important things about living together with each other and the universe we're a part of.  He was a kind of "martyred Buddha" that left me with a pointless Christianity.  I had walked away disappointed that my tradition had nothing to offer me that I couldn't get from being a vague sort of quasi-buddhist spiritualist.

I want it to be more.  But that seems to be a tall order if you refuse to believe literally flights of fancy and a primitive understanding of the universe.