[
US
/ˈhɛtɝəˌdɑks/
]
ADJECTIVE
- characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards
How To Use heterodox In A Sentence
- Hence without the existence of heterodoxy and orthodoxy, collective struggles diminish greatly in importance in traditional societies.
- The challengers include two congressmen and a heterodox former Republican senator who stirs strong emotions on both sides of the political fence.
- Wright's views are heterodox, to say the least, and as we shall see, are sometimes not even internally consistent.
- These heterodox opinions have, in some respects, dogged Evangelicalism ever since.
- Although they sponsored a number of bishops whose beliefs were regarded as heterodox, they were not seen as threats to the Church of England as compared to that presented by the Catholic Stuarts.
- Heterodoxy is important for scientific advance because new ideas and discoveries have to emerge initially as heterodox views, at variance with established understanding.
- For this reason, the Jewish civilization has, over the long years, often been considered something "alien" or even " heterodox ", usually squeezed and assaulted by the host civilization.
- He paid no price at the polls for his heterodox views.
- It is also showed that these later views foreran themes that were to be emphasized decades later by heterodox economists, particularly the Post Keynesian ones.
- 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)