I was reading Sarah Coakley's article: "'Femininity' and the Holy Spirit?" (found in the "Feminist Theology" folder on our.MHGS) and came across an unfamiliar word: 'otiose.' According to Webster's, otiose means: "producing no useful results."
What a useful and descriptive term! It is an important theological task to discern between ways of thinking that we disagree with and other ways of thinking that are truly otiose, really do not produce any useful results. One is a difference of opinion while the other identifies a way of thinking that should be discarded.