29 May 2019

orthopraxy

[awr-thuh-prak-see]

noun

1. correctness or orthodoxy of action or practice.
2. Medicine/Medical. orthopraxia

   Origin of orthopraxy

   1850-1855 First recorded in 1850-55; ortho- + prax(is) + -y3

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   And what is the good of all your orthodoxy unless the orthodoxy of creed issues in orthopraxy of conduct?

Expositions of Holy Scripture
Alexander Maclaren

Today’s quote

New roads; new ruts.

– Gilbert K. Chesterton

On this day

29 May 1874 – birth of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (otherwise known as G.K. Chesterton), English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer and Christian apologist. Died 14 June 1936.

29 May 1917 – birthday of John F. Kennedy. 35th president of the United States. Assassinated 22 November 1963.

29 May 1953 – Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepalese sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, become the first men to reach the summit of Mt Everest.