orthodoxy

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orthodoxy

1620s, from Gk. orthodoxia, from orthodoxos (see orthodox).

Example sentences

If the economy does not pick up, his popularity could evaporate-and with it his commitment to economic orthodoxy.

The mantra that no part of the pictures should have blown-out highlights became my orthodoxy.

But they are more honest because they reflect a new, more honest orthodoxy.

Hence the pressure to remove editors who dared question the orthodoxy.

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Mizrachi Muslim Brothers Society of the orthopraxy Pietism politically correct

Matching Quote

"When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults. A cult differs from a formal religion in many significant ways. It is in the nature of a cult to claim some esoteric knowledge which has been submerged (or repressed by orthodoxy) for a long time but has now suddenly been illuminated. There is often some heterodox figure, mocked or scorned by the orthodox, who presents these new teachings. There are communal rites which often permit or spur an individual to act out impulses that had hitherto been repressed. In the cult, one feels as though one were exploring novel or hitherto taboo modes of conduct. What defines a cult, therefore, is its implicit emphasis on magic rather than theology, on the personal tie to a guru or to the group, rather than to an institution or a creed."

-Daniel Bell