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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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OR'THODOX, a. [See Orthodoxy.]
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.
According or congruous with the doctrines
of Scripture, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, or the
like; as, an orthodox opinion, book, etc.
Approved; conventional.
He saluted me on both cheeks in the orthodox manner. H. R. Haweis. * The term orthodox differs in its use among the various Christian communions. The Greek Church styles itself the "Holy Orthodox Apostolic Church," regarding all other bodies of Christians as more or less heterodox. The Roman Catholic Church regards the Protestant churches as heterodox in many points. In the United States the term orthodox is frequently used with reference to divergent views on the doctrine of the Trinity. Thus it has been common to speak of the Trinitarian Congregational churches in distinction from the Unitarian, as Orthodox. The name is also applied to the conservative, in distinction from the "liberal", or Hicksite, body in the Society of Friends. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. | ||||||||