Orthodox definition

Orthodox means literally "true faith" and members of the Eastern Orthodox Church usually refer to themselves as simply Orthodox.

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).

Orthodox means conforming to accepting faith

Examples of Orthodox in a sentence

• Catechumens, Candidates for Reception into the Church and children who are members of an Orthodox Church (see note d.

• Proof of acceptance into the catechumenate, and evidence for a candidate, should be by letter from the appropriate priest.Applications for children from an Orthodox Church must be supported with a certificate of baptism and a letter confirming membership of the applicable Orthodox Church, signed by the appropriate priest.

• Eastern Christian Church includes Orthodox Churches, and is normally evidenced by a certificate of baptism or reception from the authorities of that Church.

• 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.

• Eastern Christian Church includes Orthodox Churches, and must be evidenced by a certificate of baptism or reception from the authorities of that Church.

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

• Orthodox Traditionalists decry this development as an unwarranted intrusion of “politics” in Navy ship naming practice.

• The first are Orthodox Traditionalists who naturally complain that his selection represents a corruption of the LPD 17 naming convention.

• Their numbers might be so high partly because being Greek has a great deal to do with being Orthodox.

• In addition, the expression ‘church’ in general can refer to more general expressions of ‘church’, including Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox traditions, or as otherwise indicated.

More Definitions of Orthodox

Orthodox means ‘right believing’.

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!

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.