What Is Orthodoxy?

Christianity Today has reprinted an interview of Thomas Oden in honor of his 80th birthday.  I enjoyed this question and answer:

In place of modernity you call for "a careful study and respectful following of the central tradition of classical Christian exegesis." In other places you call this orthodoxy. What is orthodoxy?
Lancelot Andrewes, a sixteenth-century Anglican divine, stated the answer as memorably as anyone, with a five-finger exercise: "One canon, two Testaments, three creeds [the Apostles', Nicene, and Athanasian], four [ecumenical] councils, and five centuries along with the Fathers of that period," by which he meant the great doctors of the first five centuries: Athanasius, Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus, and John Chrysostom in the East; and Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome, and Gregory the Great in the West.

The answer is a bit simplistic.  Each of these men had his theological foibles but are the early spiritual stones upon which the church builds today.  The entire article can be found here.