Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Correct practice, action, or procedure.
- noun Same as
orthopraxis .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) The treatment of deformities in the human body by mechanical appliances.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Correct
practice oraction - noun Right
belief combined with rightpractice , with the emphasis being on the latter, a term specially used in Latin American liberation theology, often in contrast with an orthodoxy seen as insufficiently interested in the practical and political content of faith.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word orthopraxy.
Examples
-
Without saying so outright, though, he seems to feel that religion is obliged to make peace with such forces because it must reconnect itself with "culture"—even when culture is at odds with orthodoxy and what he rather clumsily calls "orthopraxy" traditional morality.
Among the Unbelievers Daniel J. Mahoney 2011
-
He suggests that Unitarian Universalism is not so much afflicted with its own orthodoxy or even "orthopraxy" a favorite neologism among seminarians, but that it is tilting heavily toward "orthopatheia", a fixation on feeling the right things.
-
Theology and orthodoxy, they belived, cannot be separated from orthopraxy.
-
Theology and orthodoxy, they belived, cannot be separated from orthopraxy.
-
Theology and orthodoxy, they belived, cannot be separated from orthopraxy.
-
Asatru, Celtic Reconstrucitonism, Hellenismos, and the like is an attempt to move back to this idea of orthopraxy and away from religion as belief.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Cross Memorials on Government Land 2010
-
Really, as you and others have alluded too, the church has much higher of a standard on orthopraxy (what you DO) than orthodoxy (what you BELIEVE).
The Top Five Reasons Why I’m Not Turning in a Letter of Resignation to the Church. | Mind on Fire 2009
-
Confucianism has been mostly condemned as patriarchal and slightly soulless orthopraxy.
-
Also let us pray to Sts John Vianney and Pio of Pietrelcina during this "Year for Priests", that all priest may grow in orthodoxy and orthopraxy, which cannot be had without deepening Eucharistic and Ecclesial communion.
-
Mimamsa is essentially ritualist orthopraxy, placing great weight on the performance of Karma or action as enjoined by the Vedas.
Mimamsa is Harmony Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.