heterodoxy

How To Use heterodoxy In A Sentence

• Hence without the existence of heterodoxy and orthodoxy, collective struggles diminish greatly in importance in traditional societies.
• Heterodoxy is important for scientific advance because new ideas and discoveries have to emerge initially as heterodox views, at variance with established understanding.
• To all appearance it was he who began the great literary struggle for the expulsion of heterodoxy (see his [Greek: syntagma kata pasôn tôn gegenêmenôn haireseôn]); but, judging from those writings of his that have been preserved to us, it seems very unlikely that he was already successful in finding a fixed standard for determining orthodox History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)
• The "Acta Pauli" owing to this unfortunate association are suspected of heterodoxy by the more recent authors such as Philastrius (De haeres., 88) and Photius The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
• To his political confession of faith no objections appear to have been made, but the odor of his theological heterodoxy was too strong.
• Orthodoxy, my lord, is _my doxy_, and heterodoxy is _another man's_ doxy. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6
• Christological question, an attitude whose heterodoxy was shrouded perhaps even from their own eyes in the beginning, by the specious distinction between natural and adoptive sonship; and it was a worthy tribute to the range of his patristic scholarship when Felix, the chief intellectual defender of Adoptionism, after the disputation with Alcuin at Aachen, acknowledged the error of his position. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
• How very few people are capable of what you call sincere heterodoxy, in morals or religion! Born in Exile
• For it is only when we discover the living link which bound them to the Apostolic Tradition of which they are witnesses, that we shall understand their writings and establish the heterodoxy of some passages, as for instance, the Origenistic apocatastasis in the writings of Gregory of Nyssa. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
• The limitations of heterodoxy such as those I have described above go some way towards accounting for inertia and stasis.