Concept
Heterodoxy
Overview
In religion, heterodoxy (from Ancient Greek: héteros, 'other, another, different' + dóxa, 'popular belief') means "any opinions or doctrines at variance with an official or orthodox position".
Heterodoxy is also an ecclesiastical jargon term, defined in various ways by different religions and churches. For example, in some groups, heterodoxy may describe beliefs that differ from strictly orthodox views but that fall short either of formal or of material heresy.
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Thus it has come about that many persons to‐day regard Walt Whitman as the restorer of the eternal natural religion. He has infected them with his own love of comrades, with his own gladness that he and they exist. Societies are actually formed for his cult; a periodical organ exists for its propagation, in which the lines of orthodoxy and heterodoxy are already beginning to be drawn;(39) hymns are written by others…
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
States what Heterodoxy is; names Heterodoxy.
The word "religion" might seem to express more definitely the worship due to God alone, and therefore Latin translators have used this word to represent θρησκεία; yet, as not only the uneducated, but also the best instructed, use the word religion to express human ties, and relationships, and affinities, it would inevitably introduce ambiguity to use this word in discussing the worship of God, unable as we are to…
of Hippo Augustine, The City of God, Volume I
States what Heterodoxy is.
There is, however, a genuine distinction between "this" world and the "other" world, which is merely parodied by the vulgar antitheses between natural and supernatural, finite and infinite, phenomenal and noumenal. We sometimes hear it said, "The world is quite changed to me since I knew such a person," or "studied such a subject," or "had suggested to me such an idea." The expression may be literally true; and we…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Arts Translated from the German with Notes and Prefatory Essay
States what Heterodoxy is.
Philosophers who discussed Heterodoxy
Related ideas
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Austrian school of economics
- Fiqh
- Ancient Greek
- Vedas
- Muhammad
- Heresy
- Neoclassical economics
- Princeton University
- Orthodoxy
- Shia Islam
- Sunni Islam
- Doxa
- Marxian economics
- Socialist economics
- Jargon
- Arabic
- Heresy in Christianity
Place in the tradition
Part of Āstika and nāstika.