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Orthopraxy vs Heterodoxy - What's the difference?

orthopraxy | heterodoxy |

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

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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    heterodoxy

    English

    Noun

    (heterodoxies)
  • The quality of being heterodox.
  • A heterodox belief, creed, or teaching.
  • * 1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 288:
    • 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.

    Antonyms

    * orthodoxy