Heterodox Definition & Meaning

Origin of Heterodox

Greek heterodoxos hetero- hetero- doxa opinion (from dokein to think dek- in Indo-European roots)

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

His heterodox opinions regarding the doctrine of the Trinity drew upon his works the condemnation of the church.
Essenism from the standpoint of Judaism was heterodox in two respects, the abandonment of animal sacrifices and the adoration of the sun.
The heterodox views which he maintained aroused the anger of the Church on behalf of its cherished Aristotelianism, and a short time after his death his books were placed on the Index.
But it remains the fact that his success with the free-trade movement was for years unchallenged, and that the leaps and bounds with which English commercial prosperity advanced after the repeal of the cornIaws were naturally associated with the reformed fiscal policy, so that the very name of protectionism came to be identified with all that was not merely heterodox but hateful.
His learning was greater than his originality, and he was one of the least heterodox of the Italian divines who rejected Roman Catholicism.

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