orthopraxy

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːθəˌpɹæksi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoɹθəˌpɹæksi/

Noun

orthopraxy (uncountable)

1. Correct practice or action, particularly in regard to religion.
   • 2005, Encyclopedia of Religion, page 6919:

     At times, the powerful forces for change threaten traditional values, and religious communities may hold tightly to an orthopraxy in order to maintain traditional values. At other times, orthopraxy evolves along with community acceptance of new realities and values, as in the loosening of regulations on drinking and card playing among American Methodists in the mid-twentieth century or the changes in Catholicism following Vatican II. An earlier example of this is the acceptance of married clergy among Pure Land Buddhists in Japan[.]

2. Right belief combined with right practice, 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.

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Synonyms

• orthopraxis