Heterodoxy vs Traditionalism - What's the difference?
heterodoxy | traditionalism |
The quality of being heterodox.
A heterodox belief, creed, or teaching.
* 1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 288:
The adherence to traditional views or practices, especially with regard to cultural or religious matters.
A philosophical system which makes tradition the supreme criterion and rule of certitude; the doctrine that human reason is of itself radically unable to know with certainty any truth or, at least, the fundamental truths of the metaphysical, moral, and religious order.
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As nouns the difference between heterodoxy and traditionalism
is that heterodoxy is the quality of being heterodox while traditionalism is the adherence to traditional views or practices, especially with regard to cultural or religious matters.heterodoxy
English
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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.
