What's the difference between heresy and unorthodoxy?
Heresy
Definition:
(n.) An opinion held in opposition to the established or commonly received doctrine, and tending to promote a division or party, as in politics, literature, philosophy, etc.; -- usually, but not necessarily, said in reproach.
(n.) Religious opinion opposed to the authorized doctrinal standards of any particular church, especially when tending to promote schism or separation; lack of orthodox or sound belief; rejection of, or erroneous belief in regard to, some fundamental religious doctrine or truth; heterodoxy.
(n.) An offense against Christianity, consisting in a denial of some essential doctrine, which denial is publicly avowed, and obstinately maintained.
Example Sentences:
(1) Top Gear presenter Clarkson, who has been repeatedly criticised for making offensive comments, had condemned Sky for the decision, describing it as "heresy by thought".
(2) At which point – obviously – you reach the stubborn limits of the debate: from even the most supposedly imaginative Labour people as much as any Tories, such heresies would presumably be greeted with sneering derision.
(3) Was this, in fact, a persecuted truth, and our own way of life the heresy?
(4) But such an idea is not part of "sex education" and remains a heresy for those of faith, though the secular belief in this idea too is fairly devout.
(5) They are engaged in a collective act of over-compensation, frantically mouthing the prayers of the new religion now that the old one has been banished as heresy.
(6) But support for Farc, and playing footsie with President Fidel Castro, verges on utter heresy.
(7) He even continued to believe in the ultimate heresy – that incomes policy could be an effective non-monetarist means of controlling inflation.
(8) Within this apocalyptic tradition, Cohn identified the Flagellants who massacred the Jews of Frankfurt in 1349; the widespread heresy of the Free Spirit; the 16th-century Anabaptist theocracy of Münster (though some have criticised Cohn's account of this extraordinary event as lurid); the Bohemian Hussites; the instigators of the German peasants' war; and the Ranters of the English civil war.
(9) Galileo spent the latter part of his life under house arrest courtesy of the Vatican's inquisition for his heresy in insisting the Earth revolved around the sun.
(10) What’s much more questionable is the way the same vengeful attitude is extended to anyone who ever portrayed the last two years of Labour politics in terms of doubt, concern and malaise, and who are being similarly instructed to say sorry for their alleged heresy or be escorted from the building.
(11) To extremists, Timbuktu’s ancient form of Islam - in which superstition and magic cohabit with the teachings of the Qur’an - is heresy.
(12) About 50 other people carried posters reading "Heresy arises from words wrongly used" and "Allah is only for us".
(13) Yet insofar as science and the professions demand a conformity to basic concepts of ideology and practice, certain types of dissent may best be described as heresy.
(14) It will be argued that freedom of movement is a holy principle and that what we are suggesting is heresy,” he said.
(15) To call JP Morgan a glorified utility is something of a heresy in financial circles.
(16) It had even led him to consider what for most Irish football fans is the ultimate heresy.
(17) Whereas any contemplation suggesting routinization in a plastic surgery endeavor may engender abhorrence or bespeak heresy, some generalizations are essential at least as a foundation from which a logical divergence may proceed.
(18) Meanwhile, our French-speaking cousins in Cote D'Ivoire, Senegal and Mali would see the use of okra or nuts as heresy.
(19) The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy.
(20) In this paper, heretical movements are discussed, and heresy is defined [8.
Unorthodoxy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Too many of our neighbourhoods are not connected to the energy and can-do unorthodoxy that is propelling the city of Bristol into the 21st century.
(2) A report by Yellow Railroad in 2010 summed it up well : "The single strongest, overriding characteristic that unites and influences all aspects of Bristol's personality is the spirit of innovation, creativity and unorthodoxy" What role does Watershed play in connecting the organisations and creatives of Bristol?
(3) His speed and unorthodoxy bamboozled every contender, from rock-chinned plodders such as George Chuvalo to more brittle-skinned hopefuls such as Henry Cooper and Brian London, who entertained him briefly on his European sojourns.
(4) Holroyd describes how, a year before Germany invaded Soviet Russia and 18 months before the United States came into the war, Shaw inserted one passage “that sounded peculiarly Shavian in its prophetic unorthodoxy”, namely: “The friendship of Russia is vitally important to us just now.
(5) Indeed, his very unorthodoxy may account for the originality of his insights.
(6) Some of the churches attacked in the most recent wave of persecutions have been official and state-sanctioned members of the “ Three-Self” movement , a Protestant denomination that is meant to be entirely under government control (many of the churches have CCTV cameras facing the pulpits, to check the sermons for political unorthodoxy).
(7) 1950s: Tears Inside, from Tomorrow is the Question As the jazz world absorbs the death of Ornette Coleman , the accolades to an extraordinary musical pioneer naturally concentrate on his unorthodoxies – his weird wardrobe, his white, plastic alto sax, his often impenetrable explanations of his work, and primarily his radical impulse to break jazz free of the structures of pop songs and allow improvisers to evolve their own shared narratives in the passing moment.
(8) Despite the unorthodoxy of Valfells' points, he was actually making his argument from a position of some kind of strength in that he is a) Icelandic, and b) comes from a family with a history of running unofficial currencies.