Heterodox
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( a.) 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.
(2): ( a.) Holding heterodox opinions, or doctrines not orthodox; heretical; - said of persons.
(3): ( n.) An opinion opposed to some accepted standard.
Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary [2]
formed of the Greek ετεροδοξος , a compound of ετερος , alter, and δοξα , opinion, something that is contrary to the faith or doctrine established in the true church. Thus, we say, a heterodox opinion, a heterodox divine, &c. The word stands in opposition to orthodox.
Charles Buck Theological Dictionary [3]
Something that is contrary to the faith or doctrine established in the true church.
See Orthodox
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [4]
a term "practically limited to belief in something that is contrary to the decision of some church or churches; thus, when a Romanist or a Lutheran, etc., speaks of heterodoxy, he means something in opposition to the teaching, respectively, of the Romish or Lutheran Church, etc., so that what is, or at least is understood by heterodox, at one time or place, will be orthodox in another. See Martensen, Dogmatics 28. (See Heresy); (See Orthodox).
