heterodox
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- s characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards
- Indeed, while the group may have given outsiders an impression of Christianity, their version of Jesus was most certainly heterodox.
- For starters, Syria is ruled by a besieged and insecure minority, the Alawites, a heterodox-Shi'ite ethnic minority.
- In the heterodox, rigidly disciplined Christianity of the Worldwide Church of God, that could mean anything.