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n. The quality or state of being orthodox.

n. Orthodox practice, custom, or belief.

n. The beliefs and practices of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

n. Orthodox Judaism.

n. Correctness in doctrine and belief.

n. Conformity to established and accepted beliefs (usually of religions).

n. 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.

n. Consonance to genuine Scriptural doctrines; -- said of moral doctrines and beliefs.

n. By extension, said of any generally accepted doctrine or belief; the orthodox practice or belief.

n. 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.

n. a belief or orientation agreeing with conventional standards

n. the quality of being orthodox (especially in religion)

"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."

heresy   

orthodoxy sunday    feast of orthodoxy   

soundness    canonicalness    conventionality    opinion   

morality    dogma    propriety    theology    liberalism    tenet    rectitude    creed    veracity    formalism