St Augustine taught that the essence of Christian discipleship was developing 'rightly ordered love.' In essence we have to learn what to love, and how to love, in ways that are consistent with the love of God, as a catalyst for orthodoxy and orthopraxy, and as the fulfillment of them.
Indeed, St Peter wrote that 'love covers a multitude of sins' (ie orthpathy is more important than othopraxy) and Jesus Himself taught that the repentant sinner is better than the righteous Pharisee who doesn't need repentance (ie orthopathy is superior to orthopraxy AND orthodoxy). Jesus quotes the OT Scriptures that say the same thing, "I desire mercy and not sacrifice."
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