Orthodoxy:

Its Truths And Errors

By

James Freeman Clarke

“Soleo enim in allena castra transire, non tanquam transfuga, sed tanquam explorator.”—Seneca, Epistolæ, 2.

“Fiat lux. Cupio refelli, ubi aberrarim; nihil majus, nihil aliud quam veritatem efflagito.”—Thomas Burnet, Arch. Phil.

Fourteenth Edition.

Boston:

American Unitarian Association.

1880.

Contents

• Preface.
• Chapter I. Introduction.
• § 1. Object and Character of this Book.
• § 2. Progress requires that we should look back as well as forward.
• § 3. Orthodoxy as Right Belief.
• § 4. Orthodoxy as the Doctrine of the Majority. Objections.
• § 5. Orthodoxy as the Oldest Doctrine. Objections.
• § 6. Orthodoxy as the Doctrine held by all.
• § 7. Orthodoxy, as a Formula, not to be found.
• § 8. Orthodoxy as Convictions underlying Opinions.
• § 9. Substantial Truth and Formal Error in all great Doctrinal Systems.
• § 10. Importance of this Distinction.
• § 11. The Orthodox and Liberal Parties in New England.
• Chapter II. The Principle And Idea Of Orthodoxy Stated And Examined.
• § 1. The Principle of Orthodoxy defined.
• § 2. Logical Genesis of the Principle of Orthodoxy.
• § 3. Orthodoxy assumed to be the Belief of the Majority.
• § 4. Heterodoxy thus becomes sinful.
• § 5. The Doctrine of Essentials and Non-essentials leads to Rome.
• § 6. Fallacy in this Orthodox Argument.
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