Heterodoxy

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This article is about the religious term. For the feminist group, see Heterodoxy (group). For the economic term, see Heterodox economics.

In religion, heterodoxy (from Ancient Greek: héteros, "other, another, different" + dóxa, "popular belief") means "any opinions or doctrines at variance with an official or orthodox position".[1]

Heterodoxy is also an ecclesiastical

term of art, defined in various ways by different religions and churches. For example, in some groups heterodoxy may describe beliefs that differ from strictly orthodox views but that fall short either of formal or of material heresy
.

Christianity

Eastern Orthodoxy

In the

Holy Tradition.[2]

Protestantism

Charles Spurgeon said:

[Y]ou shall find spiritual life in every church. I know it is the notion of the bigot, that all the truly godly people belong to the denomination which he adorns. Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is anybody else's doxy who does not agree with me.[3]

Islam

The

companions of the Prophet such as Salman the Persian. The assumption is that the groups thus described have gone too far and have come to associate them with God (shirk
).

Wahhabis, in turn, see themselves as the only truly orthodox groups within Islam.[4]

According to

Abbasid caliphates there was a marked tendency among several quite unrelated heterodox groups to affiliate themselves with the Shiites, particularly the Ismailis, in a general feeling of heterodox solidarity in a Sunni-controlled empire.[5] The cause of the Alids thus became a rallying point for a diverse range of heterodox Islamic movements. The view that Ali
was divine, though never mainstream within Shiism, is attested in the early centuries of Islam.

Hinduism

See also: Āstika and nāstika § Nāstika

The main schools of Indian philosophy that reject the absoluteness of the Vedas, including Buddhism and Jainism, were regarded as heterodox by Hinduism.[6] In 2015, the Supreme Court of India ruled that Hinduism cannot be narrowed down to particular beliefs or doctrine, saying that it "incorporates all forms of belief without mandating the selection or elimination of any one single belief".[7]

China

In late 1999, legislation was created in China to outlaw "heterodox religions".[8] This was applied retroactively to Falun Gong, a spiritual practice introduced to the public in China by Li Hongzhi (李洪志) in 1992.[9]

Economics

Heterodox economics refers to schools of economic thought considered outside of mainstream economics, referred to as orthodox economics, often represented by expositors as contrasting with or going beyond neoclassical economics.

Heterodox economics refers to the consideration of a variety of economic schools and

social economics, among others.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ "orthodoxy." WordNet. US: Princeton University.
  2. ^ Pomazansky, Michael. 1994. Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, translated by S. Rose. Platina, California: St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood. pp. 243–246.
  3. ^ Spurgeon, Charles H. 1871. The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons 17. London: Passmore & Alabaster. p. 449.
  4. ISBN 978-1-55395-397-5
    .
  5. ^ Hitti, Philip Khuri. [1937] 1970. History of the Arabs.
  6. ISBN 81-7596-028-0
  7. ^ "Heterodox Hinduism: Supreme Court does well to uphold plural, eclectic character of the faith". Times of India Blog. 21 December 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  8. S2CID 155045498
    . Steering Committee of the National Peoples' Congress (NPC) on 1 November 1999, passed a law on the suppression of heterodox religion (xiejiao).
  9. ^ Statement of Professor David Ownby. Unofficial Religions in China: Beyond the Party's Rules. 2005. Archived 26 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
  10. ^ Lee, Frederic S. 2008. "heterodox economics." In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2nd ed.). Abstract.

Further reading

External links

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