heterodox
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1. heterodox - Noun
2. heterodox - Adjective
3. heterodox - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
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.
Holding heterodox opinions, or doctrines not orthodox; heretical; -- said of persons.
An opinion opposed to some accepted standard.
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The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought.
... Satan is made interesting. This has been the charge of a thousand orthodox and even heterodox writers against Milton.
Authors describe Rothbard as a "heterodox political economist" far out of the mainstream, who nonetheless was a charismatic figure who caught the attention and provoked responses from the mainstream.
Essays Critical and Clinical, p. 135. Deleuze's interpretations Deleuze's studies of individual philosophers and artists are purposely heterodox.
Changing a 'paradigm' is difficult, as it requires an individual scientist to break with his or her peers and defend a heterodox theory.
As early as 1866, Rabbi Jonas Bondi of New York wrote that a Judaism of the "golden middleway, which was termed Orthodox by the left and heterodox or reformer by the right" developed in the new country.