Frank McPherson

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This development changed the meaning of the word “orthodoxy.” Before the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, orthodoxy referred to “right worship” or “correct worship.” If you did the liturgy right, the practice right, you were orthodox. Then, in the aftermath of the Reformation, orthodoxy began to mean “right belief” or “correct belief.” And faith began to mean “believing the right things.”3
The Heart of Christianity
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