Orthodoxy

Orthodoxy
Type	Concept / ideal
Field	Philosophy of religion
Category

Orthodoxy is a concept or ideal used in the comparative study of religion, theology, and philosophy of religion. On Wikitheism, it is treated as part of knowledge, reason, and evidence: questions about faith, reason, revelation, interpretation, religious experience, and religious truth-claims.

Overview

This page is a neutral starter article. It is meant to help editors compare how different traditions understand, practice, criticize, or reinterpret the idea of Orthodoxy. The meaning of the term may vary across traditions, languages, historical periods, and schools of interpretation.

In philosophy of religion

In philosophy of religion, concepts such as Orthodoxy can be studied through questions about meaning, truth, practice, value, experience, community, and ultimate reality. Some traditions treat such concepts as doctrines, while others treat them as symbols, disciplines, ethical ideals, ritual patterns, or interpretive categories.

Associated traditions and worldviews

The following traditions and worldviews are good starting points for connecting this concept to Wikitheism articles:

• Christianity
• Islam
• Judaism
• Hinduism
• Buddhism
• Baha'i Faith
• New Religious Movements
• Unaffiliated and Secular Worldviews
• Unitarian Universalism

Related concepts

• Faith
• Reason
• Revelation
• Religious experience
• Hermeneutics
• Scripture
• Tradition
• Authority

See also

• Philosophy of religion
• Religious concepts and ideals
• Concepts and ideals by tradition