{"id":2489,"date":"2025-05-09T09:55:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T09:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=2489"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:58:14","slug":"glossary-orthopraxis-versus-orthodoxy-and-orthopoesis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=2489","title":{"rendered":"GLOSSARY &#8211; Orthopraxis versus orthodoxy and orthopoesis"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2489\" class=\"elementor elementor-2489\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-28100308 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"28100308\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6f5b0233 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"6f5b0233\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-23e6ebe9 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"23e6ebe9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a06378a elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a06378a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">ORTHOPRAXIS VERSUS ORTHODOXY AND ORTHOPOIESIS<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4f1a0cc elementor-widget-mobile__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4f1a0cc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p align=\"justify\">Panikkar makes use of a new concept,\u00a0<strong>orthopraxis,<\/strong>\u00a0to speak of two expressions of faith and belief that can neither be mixed together nor be entirely separated: doctrine and morality. The former identifies faith with\u00a0<em>orthodoxy<\/em>, adherence to a correct doctrine; but identifying faith with orthodoxy can lead to \u201cdogmatism\u201d (which rigidly emphasizes the value of a fixed intellectual formulation of faith). The formulation of faith cannot be united essentially to its content, as this would violate its transcendent character \u2026 Faith is a mystery that cannot be linked to a fixed form of expression nor univocally converted into any formulation whatsoever\u00a0<em>(La nueva inocencia).<\/em><\/p><p align=\"justify\">The latter expression, morality, insists on the moral character of the religious act, the supremacy of the good, tending to identify faith with a certain correct moral behavior\u00a0<em>(orthopoiesis)<\/em>. However, identifying faith with\u00a0<em>moral\u00a0<\/em>rectitude leads to \u201cmoralism\u201d (the suffocation of the act of faith): which then \u201cdestroys the very foundation of religion which claims to be more than mere perfectionism\u201d. Panikkar proposes, as a means of overcoming both extreme, the concept of faith as\u00a0<em>orthopraxis<\/em>. Man is more than a spectator and interpreter of the world, he is above all an actor; orthopraxis tries to be a true path of salvation \u2013 \u201cdivinization\u201d. And so it is that faith is not so much a doctrine or a moral code as \u201ca fundamental act that opens us to the possibility of perfection\u201d (<em>L\u2019homme qui devient Dieu<\/em>, Paris 1970).<\/p><p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=981\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>&lt;&lt; back<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORTHOPRAXIS VERSUS ORTHODOXY AND ORTHOPOIESIS Panikkar makes use of a new concept,\u00a0orthopraxis,\u00a0to speak of two expressions of faith and belief that can neither be mixed together nor be entirely separated: doctrine and morality. The former identifies faith with\u00a0orthodoxy, adherence to a correct doctrine; but identifying faith with orthodoxy can lead to \u201cdogmatism\u201d (which rigidly emphasizes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2489","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5272,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2489\/revisions\/5272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}