@joshuapsteele Please share when you find answers! This is my struggle always in the ecumenical spaces I find myself!
@joshuapsteele This is so difficult that I wonder sometimes if it is even possible. Defining "primary, secondary, and tertiary theological commitments" is, it seems to me, one of the most significant problems in your questions. Many times, we cannot even agree about the categories themsleves, let alone what fits into them. The 2017 conversation started by Jamie Smith "On 'orthodox Christianity'" was an attempt to get at this around issues of sexuality. Numerous responses at the time show why this is such a fraught conversation.
@mwerickson Mmm. I'd forgotten about those blog posts. Thanks for drawing my attention back to them! Yes, this research project (for a prof at Wheaton) is precisely to grapple with these kinds of difficulties.
@joshuapsteele What is the purpose of ranking theological commitments that way? What’s wrong with the fullness of the faith?
@ReaderJohn it's for the purpose of examining the issue of maintaining/breaking fellowship with people we disagree with.
@joshuapsteele “Fellowship” being equivalent to “in communion with” (I.e., their members can receive communion)?
@ReaderJohn That's a part of it, although I think there are other important levels/markers of fellowship as well. This is for a Wheaton prof's book project. I'm serving as his research assistant this year.