Orthodox - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: orthodoxOrthodox
Sound in opinion or doctrine especially in religious doctrine hence holding the Christian faith believing the doctrines taught in the Scriptures opposed to heretical and heterodox as an orthodox Christian...
Orthodoxal
Pertaining to or evincing orthodoxy orthodox...
Orthodoxality
Orthodoxness...
Orthodoxical
Pertaining to or evincing orthodoxy orthodox...
Orthodoxness
The quality or state of being orthodox orthodoxy...
VerbarRaskolnik
The name applied by the Russian government to any subject of the Greek faith who dissents from the established church The Raskolniki embrace many sects whose common characteristic is a clinging to antique traditions habits and customs The schism originated in 1667 in an ecclesiastical dispute as to the correctness of the translation of the religious books The dissenters who have been continually persecuted are believed to number about 20000000 although the Holy Synod officially puts the number at about 2000000 They are officially divided into three groups according to the degree of their variance from orthodox beliefs and observances as follows I ldquoMost obnoxiousrdquo the Judaizers the Molokane who refuse to recognize civil authority or to take oaths the Dukhobortsy or Dukhobors who are communistic marry without ceremony and believe that Christ was human but that his soul reappears at intervals in living men the Khlysty who countenance anthropolatory are ascetics practice continual ...
canon law
canon law : a body of religious law governing the conduct of members of a particular faith ;esp : the codified church law of the Roman Catholic Church NOTE: Common law has been influenced by canon law in the areas of marriage and inheritance. Roman Catholic canon law, like the civil law, has been modeled on ancient Roman law. The source for Roman Catholic canon law is the Code of Canon Law. The Rudder (Pedalion) is a source for Greek Orthodox canon law. Jewish canon law is contained in the Talmud. ...
conforming
adhering to established customs or doctrines especially in religion as eg Orthodox Judaism...
Eastern Church
That portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern Church It became estranged from the Western or Roman Church over the question of papal supremacy and the doctrine of the filioque and a separation begun in the latter part of the 9th century became final in 1054 The Eastern Church consists of twelve thirteen if the Bulgarian Church be included mutually independent churches including among these the Hellenic Church or Church of Greece and the Russian Church using the vernacular or some ancient form of it in divine service and varying in many points of detail but standing in full communion with each other and united as equals in a great federation The highest five authorities are the patriarch of Constantinople or ecumenical patriarch whose position is not one of supremacy but of precedence th...
Heterodox
Contrary to or differing from some acknowledged standard as the Bible the creed of a church the decree of a council and the like not orthodox heretical said of opinions doctrines books etc esp upon theological subjects...
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