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Definition of "orthopraxy" [or•tho•prax•y]

  • Correct practice or action (noun)
  • 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. (noun)

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Use "orthopraxy" in a sentence
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "Asatru, Celtic Reconstrucitonism, Hellenismos, and the like is an attempt to move back to this idea of orthopraxy and away from religion as belief."