Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interview with a reporter of the Boston Post, speaks of the work of the committee and some of its results. The gentleman, besides being a student in the philosophical department of the University, is the pastor of a leading Congregationalist church in Kansas City, Mo., and speaks from an Orthodox standpoint. He says...
...came to Harvard with the suspicion that it was a poor place for a religious man to come to. My Orthodox friends, both in the East and in the West, warned me of its moral atmosphere. But, after I had spent a half year at Harvard, during which time I made its moral and religious tone a study, I concluded that the fears of my friends were unfounded, and, furthermore, that their ideas had been distorted by such articles as the one written by Quest for the North American Review. Unwilling, however, to rest the matter on my own experience...
...Mohammedan church is divided into 73 sects, which differ from each other in church government and ritual and also in regard to the doctrines of free will and predestination. There are two main sects, the Sunnites, or Orthodox, and the Shiites, or Sectaries. The latter belong to the party of Ali, the son-in-law and successor of Mohammed, and regard his descendants as the only legitimate Caliphs. Thus the Caliphs after Ali are considered as usurpers...
...Orthodox Sunnrites are divided into four schools, founded by various doctors, which teach respectively the doctrines of rationalism, mysticism, Puritanism and strict orthodoxy...
...nationalization of the Greek religion, which men like Peisistratos brought about, the increased prominence of national politics, and the reaction in the mother country of the more unconventional lines of art pursued in the colonies, did much toward freeing Greek sculpture from the bonds of crude conventionalism and orthodox archaism...