Orthopraxy vs Heterodoxy - What's the difference?
orthopraxy | heterodoxy |
Correct practice or action
Right belief combined with right practice, with the emphasis being on the latter, a term specially used in Latin American liberation theology, often in contrast with an orthodoxy seen as insufficiently interested in the practical and political content of faith.
The quality of being heterodox.
A heterodox belief, creed, or teaching.
* 1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 288:
As nouns the difference between orthopraxy and heterodoxy
is that orthopraxy is correct practice or action while heterodoxy is the quality of being heterodox.orthopraxy
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(-)Synonyms
*heterodoxy
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(heterodoxies)- A genuine first-hand religious experience like this is bound to be a heterodoxy to its witnesses, the prophet appearing as a mere lonely madman.