Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Orthodoxy" in English language version.
[...] a certain eternal norm, a kind of theologia perennis - the Thomistic in the Roman Catholic case, the Palamite in Neo-Patristic theology. Compliance with this norm is held to be absolutely necessary to be a true Catholic or a true Orthodox, ans any deviation from it is considered detrimental [...] this perennial norm functions, ultimately, to legitimize the 'Catholic' and the 'Orthodox' denomination (Konfession) of the day.
Schooling is the set of programs and practices that institutionalize the norms and standards of written culture. In reading authoritative texts learners are acquiring not only knowledge but also the rules and norms for what constitutes a clear distinction, defensible theory, valid argument or a sound reason in a written-document culture. And that set of norms and standards is then to be carried over and used to judge one's own views whether written or spoken.
[...] note how often monotheistic descriptions of restoration employ political vocabulary - within which the believing community exists no longer under siege but in a position of authority over the nonmember, or nonbeliever.
Until the Enlightenment, the ultimate judgement or truth was one stemming from the authority of God, as interpreted bay God's representatives on Earth. Anyone who opposed the judgement of clergy committed a heresy. The Roman Catholic Church's 'thought police' in charge of arresting any unorthodox thinking. [...] The Spanish Inquisition was the most ruthless pursuit of ideological purity in Western history.
[...] North Korea may have provided Pol Pot a model of ethnic as well as ideological purity, one that disregarded Korea's distinct ethnic homogeneity.
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