Although quite orthodox in doctrine, he rebelled against the secularization of the Churchwhich had given to the pope almost supreme power in temporal affairsand against the worldly disposition and life then prevalent among ecclesiastics and monks.

" Our doctor was so orthodox on this head that, though advanced in years, he drank nothing himself but water.

Bolshevism, as I have repeatedly stated, cannot be judged by our western eyes: it is not a popular and revolutionary movement; it is a religious fanaticism of the orthodox of the East hoisted on the throne of Tsarist despotism.

To this question the answer is that the hollow kinds of compromise are as bad in the orthodox as in the heretical.

But if that is the case I may be able to do somethingnot that I'm considered orthodox at the Patriarchate!

From the earliest appearance of the Reformation, the young sovereign of so many states, having to establish his authority at the two extremities of Europe, could not efficiently occupy himself in resisting the doctrines which, despite their dishonoring epithet of heresy, were doomed so soon to become orthodox for a great part of the Continent.

The objection to the Athanasian Creed urged by better men than the Notary, yea, by divines not less orthodox than Sherlock himself, is this: not that this Creed adds to the Scriptures, but that it adds to the original 'Symbolum Fidei', the 'Regula', the 'Canon', by which, according to the greater number of the 'ante'-Nicene Fathers, the books of the New Testament were themselves tried and determined to be Scripture.

The whole Church was made to take the side of orthodoxy, and it remained orthodox to the times of Bernard and Anselm.

I felt convinced, that if I would but have contradicted myself two or three times, and then have added, "That is the mystery of it," I could have passed as orthodox with many.