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Orthodoxy vs Orthopraxy - What's the difference?

orthodoxy | orthopraxy |

As nouns the difference between orthodoxy and orthopraxy

is that orthodoxy is correctness in doctrine and belief while orthopraxy is correct practice or action.

As a proper noun Orthodoxy

is the Eastern Orthodox Church, including Greek Orthodox Church, Romanian Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox Church, and Serbian Orthodox Church.

orthodoxy

English

Noun

(orthodoxies)
  • Correctness in doctrine and belief.
  • Conformity to established and accepted beliefs (usually of religions).

    • Antonyms

    * heterodoxy

    orthopraxy

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

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