Orthodoxy

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  • noun. The quality or state of being orthodox.
  • noun. Orthodox practice, custom, or belief.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The beliefs and practices of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
  • noun. Orthodox Judaism.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The character of being orthodox; correctness of opinion; soundness of doctrine, especially in theology; specifically, in theology, conformity to the faith of the Church Catholic, as represented in its primitive ecumenical creeds, or to the Greek Church, called Orthodox.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Soundness of faith; a belief in the doctrines taught in the Scriptures, or in some established standard of faith; -- opposed to heterodoxy or to heresy.
  • noun. Consonance to genuine Scriptural doctrines; -- said of moral doctrines and beliefs.
  • noun. By extension, said of any generally accepted doctrine or belief; the orthodox practice or belief.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Correctness in doctrine and belief.
  • noun. Conformity to established and accepted beliefs (usually of religions).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a belief or orientation agreeing with conventional standards
  • noun. the quality of being orthodox (especially in religion)
  • Word Usage
    "Paleo becomes a necessary prefix only because the term orthodoxy has been preempted and to some degree tarnished by the modern (Bultmannian-Tillichian - Niebuhrian) tradition of neo-orthodoxy."
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