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Another word for orthodoxy

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Noun
      1. Something taught as the principles or creed of a religion, political party, etc.; tenet or tenets; belief; dogma
      2. A rule, theory, or principle of law
      3. A principle or body of principles presented for acceptance or belief, as by a religious, political, scientific, or philosophic group; dogma.
      1. (Theol.) Among Jews, the unwritten religious code and doctrine regarded as handed down from Moses
      2. A precept or a body of precepts that are not written in the sacred book of a religion, such as the Bible, but are considered holy or true.
      3. The passing down of elements of a culture from generation to generation, especially by oral communication:
      1. The state of believing; conviction or acceptance that certain things are true or real
      2. Anything believed or accepted as true; esp., a creed, doctrine, or tenet
      3. Faith, esp. religious faith
      1. Doctrines, tenets, or beliefs, collectively
      2. A doctrine or a corpus of doctrines relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth in an authoritative manner by a religion.
      3. A doctrine; tenet; belief
    See also:

    religion

    faith

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Sentence Examples

  • 513-514), "there are different kinds of orthodoxy and heresy.

  • The Milhamoth is throughout modelled after the plan of the great work of Jewish philosophy, the Moreh Nebuhim of Moses Maimonides, and may be regarded as an elaborate criticism from the more philosophical point of view (mainly Averroistic) of the syncretism of Aristotelianism and Jewish orthodoxy as presented in that work.

  • Jewish orthodoxy found itself attacked by the more revolutionary aspects of mysticism and its tendencies to alter established customs. While the medieval scholasticism denied the possibility of knowing anything unattainable by reason, the spirit of the Kabbalah held that the Deity could be realized, and it sought to bridge the gulf.

  • For this he was called to account by Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153), the recognized guardian of orthodoxy in France.

  • Schwenkfeld's mysticism was the cause of his divergence from Protestant orthodoxy and the root of his peculiar religious and theological position.

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