Literally, "right belief " Christianity, unlike most false religions, is not fundamentally a moral code It is a doctrinal system that dictates and requires a particular ethical code The outlines of Christianity were hammered out in the early ecumenical councils of the church in its first five centuries of its existence There can be no Christianity without this orthodoxy There are more specific orthodoxies For example, Reformed orthodoxy includes a broader range of Biblical belief It includes such doctrines emphasized at the time of the Reformation as the Bible as our final authority and justification by faith alone Reformed orthodoxy is expressed preeminently in the great Reformed confessions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Chalcedon supports both early ecumenical orthodoxy and Reformed orthodoxy
is the method of referring to the standard of beliefs held by the Church of Christ It is the list of "doctrines" believed to be truth
The old, traditional beliefs of a religion, political party, or philosophy can be referred to as orthodoxy. a conflict between Nat's religious orthodoxy and Rube's belief that his mission is to make money. orthodoxies an idea or set of ideas that is accepted by most people to be correct and right
Literally "correct belief", refers to a common tendency among some religions to promote common beliefs Compare this with the more Hellenistic "orthopraxy"
The position or state in which people totally conform to and accept an established doctrine of religious beliefs
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
the quality of being orthodox (especially in religion) a belief or orientation agreeing with conventional standards
An orthodoxy is an accepted view about something. These ideas rapidly became the new orthodoxy in linguistics What was once a novel approach had become orthodoxy
Consonance to genuine Scriptural doctrines; said of moral doctrines and beliefs; as, the orthodoxy of a creed
From the Greek "straight opinion," the accepted or dominant teaching or position
A term used in a number of senses, of which the following are the most important: Orthodoxy in the sense of "right belief," as opposed to heresy (see pp 145-9); orthodoxy in the sense of a movement within Protestantism, especially in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, which laid emphasis upon need for doctrinal definition (see pp 68-71)