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Heterodox meaning
Of or pertaining to creeds, beliefs, or teachings, especially religious ones, that are different from what a religion (or sect) believes to be orthodox, but (usually) not conflicting with that religion's established beliefs and therefore not heretical.
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The ministry claims to be Catholic but was severely censured by the late Pope Benedict XVI because of its heterodox views on the intrinsic sinfulness of homosexual acts.
Newton’s interest in the Temple of Solomon was linked to his heterodox religious beliefs, which included a rejection of the Trinity and interest in alchemy and eschatology.
Rosamund Pike has a heterodox view of history for our fake-news times.
Despite his somewhat heterodox campaign, Trump has been a remarkably conservative president.
It’s a large bag of heterodox goals on a wide range of issues.
It’s for this reason, if not entirely for this reason, that Mike Leach was for some time confused for an interesting person and appealingly heterodox thinker.
I worry about illiberals on the left, the repression of heterodox opinions on university campuses and the repressive orthodoxy many universities are trying to impose.
As early as 1866, Rabbi Jonas Bondi of New York wrote that a Judaism of the "golden middleway, which was termed Orthodox by the left and heterodox or reformer by the right" developed in the new country.
Authors describe Rothbard as a "heterodox political economist" far out of the mainstream, who nonetheless was a charismatic figure who caught the attention and provoked responses from the mainstream.
Beginning in the reign of Bayezid II (d. 1512), the Ottoman state used to manage the difficulty with the heterodox Qizilbash (kizilbas) movement in eastern Anatolia.
Cārvāka is classified as a nāstika ("heterodox") system; it is not included among the six schools of Hinduism generally regarded as orthodox.
Changing a 'paradigm' is difficult, as it requires an individual scientist to break with his or her peers and defend a heterodox theory.
Criticisms Many sociologists, political economists, and heterodox economists claim that labour economics tends to lose sight of the complexity of individual employment decisions.
Essays Critical and Clinical, p. 135. Deleuze's interpretations Deleuze's studies of individual philosophers and artists are purposely heterodox.
His administration applied heterodox policies through the expansion of public expenditure and limitations on external debt payments.
In an attempt to revolutionize the economy and defeat inflation, Sarney carried on an ambitious "heterodox" economic plan ( Cruzado ) in 1986, which included price controls, default on the external debts and reduction of salaries.
Indeed, it was Priestley's aim to "put the most 'advanced' Enlightenment ideas into the service of a rationalized though heterodox Christianity, under the guidance of the basic principles of scientific method".
In October 1999, four months after the ban, legislation was created to outlaw " heterodox religions" and sentence Falun Gong devotees to prison terms.
Milton embraced many heterodox Christian theological views.
Orthodox (in the sense of non-heterodox) Trinitarian doctrine teaches that the Persons are distinct from each other only as regards their mutual relations.