Is Christianity an ideology?

I have been reading about and listening to some discussion of Jordan Peterson's critique of ideology e.g. here. 

Could the Christian faith be called an ideology, a kind of totalising theory that dominates?

It is a danger worth considering. Have we made an ideology and an idol of our dogmatics?

A few things might help to deliver Bible believing Christians from this trap. 

First, we insist that God is incomprehensible and mysterious. We have true and certain knowledge of him, but our knowledge is always incomplete and provisional. We are clear about the limits of our speaking and systems and ready to admit our ignorance. 

Our stress on the fallenness of human thinking and systems should be a safeguard to us against excessive certainty or over-bearing constraints. Our faith might be true, but if we are true to it, we know that we are liable to abuse it. In our sinful hands, The Truth can easily be a tool to power. 

God himself stands outside our ideology. We distinguish God himself from our talk about God. Seductive as theology as theory and system can be, we have to do in the end with a Person. The goal is ultimate goal is not only to speak about God but to God. Theology is for doxology, for prayer and worship. 

In the end, the deal not with ideas or with an ideology but with Jesus the Lord, The Truth, The Word. Our preaching is not primarily so that people might embrace a set of ideas but a Person. 

The Spirit no doubt has yet more light to break forth from the Word. Our understanding is always partial and provisional. 

Ecclesia semper reformanda est.

A readiness to repent and an intellectual humility ought, then, to flow naturally from Christian faith. 

May God deliver us from ideology.