Orthodox definition

Orthodox means – “conforming to what is generally or traditionally accepted as right or true; established and approved.”
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Orthodox. Christendom. By “orthodox” he means all good conservative Christians: Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic or conservative Protestant. The particulars of denomination and theology concern him little here (an issue to which we shall return presently). Newly aggressive secularism should alert the church to its true peril. He traces the roots of our cultural crisis using metaphors of cultural decline (e.g. Ostrogoths, Visigoths and Vandals at the gates of Rome). Drawing loosely on analyses from both Radical Orthodoxy and Charles Taylor, he pins the inception of our present crisis on medieval nominalism’s critique of metaphysical realism, the idea that there is a way things really are. William of Ockham tried to preserve God’s freedom but actually opened the door to increasingly man-centred and constructivist ways of seeing the world that have landed us in radical individualism, the sexual revolution and gay marriage. It’s more complex, of course, but that’s the upshot: abandoning realism means abandoning spiritual sanity.
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Orthodox means "conforming to the usual beliefs or established doctrines." The Greek Orthodox Church does not now use, nor has it ever used musical instruments in its worship. The use of instruments in worship does not appear in any of their liturgies either ancient or modern. This shows that the early church doctrine was to sing without instruments, otherwise it seems likely that the Orthodox Church would have been using them at the time of the division from the Roman church, and would have used them all along. (By the way, this also shows that the Greek words psallo and psalmos are understood by these Greek-fluent Bible scholars not to require the use of an instrument in worship).
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Examples of Orthodox in a sentence

  • If application is being made for a place at the school for a member of an Eastern Christian Church, including Orthodox Churches, evidence of membership will be required.

  • Ukrainian Catholics, Roman Catholics and Orthodox people can pray with us.

  • Cuomo, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and two Orthodox Jewish synagogues sued to block enforcement of an executive order restricting capacity at worship services within certain zones, while certain secular businesses were permitted to remain open and subjected to different restrictions in those same zones.

  • Vasili Mkalavishvili, a defrocked Georgian Orthodox priest who led most of the attacks, justified them by claiming that charismatic faiths were defiling Georgia’s nationhood and religious tradition.

  • Eastern Orthodox Churches, including the Coptic Orthodox, Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox Churches, are NOT in full communion with the See of Rome.

  • Knouse Foods products are packed under the supervision of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations and are certified as kosher when bearing the symbol on the label in accordance with UOJC signed agreement.

  • Scholarships awarded to needy students studying for the priesthood in the Orthodox Church in America.

  • Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, Harvard Club, Mar 10, 2009.

  • Fr Andrew Nassir Memorial Endowment Fund, established in 1991 to render financial assistance to worthy students enrolled in St Vladimir’s who have declared their intention to become ordained in the Orthodox Christian faith.

  • I release and will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Orthodox Union, NCSY, Jewish Student Union, its directors, owners, agents, employees, and volunteers (“releasees”) from every claim and any liability that I or my child may allege against the releasees (including reasonable legal fees and costs) as a direct or indirect result of harm to my child while s/he is in the care of NCSY and JSU.


More Definitions of Orthodox

Orthodox means conforming to accepting faith
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Orthodox means literally "true faith" and members of the Eastern Orthodox Church usually refer to themselves as simply Orthodox.
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Orthodox means ‘right believing’.
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Orthodox. – in this case – means “right thinking” about God's Word. It means, thinking about Scripture the way the Church first thought of it prior to the unhappy divisions in the 11th and 16th centuries!
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