doctrinal

rigid

bigoted bourgeois button-down commonplace conforming conservative demure dogmatic drippy hackneyed hidebound humdrum illiberal in rut inflexible insular isolationist lame literal moderate moral narrow narrow-minded not extreme not heretical obstinate parochial pedestrian prosaic puritanical routine rube run-of-the-mill sober solemn square stereotyped straight strait-laced strict stuffy uptight

abnormal different exotic foreign irregular new original strange uncommon unconventional uncustomary unique unusual

assertive categorical pragmatic reasoned

a priori as a matter of course authoritarian authoritative axiomatic by fiat by natural law by nature canonical deducible deductive derivable doctrinaire eternal excathedra formal imperative inevitable on faith oracular orthodox peremptory positive prophetic systematic theoretical unchangeable unerring unqualified

ambiguous amenable doubtful doubting dubious equivocal flexible fluctuating indecisive manageable not positive obedient questioning skeptical submissive uncertain vacillating

admonitory didactic disciplinary disquisitional edifying expository instructional instructive moralizing preaching sermonic sermonizing teaching

according to the book acknowledged admitted approved authoritative buttoned-down by the numbers canonical conformist conservative conventional correct customary devout die-hard established in line legitimate official old-line pious proper punctilious reactionary received recognized religious right rightful sanctioned sound square standard straight straight arrow traditionalistic true well-established

heterodox unconventional unorthodox untraditional

holy sacred sectarian theological

devotional divine pontifical

canonical churchly clerical deistic ecclesiastical ministerial orthodox priestly sacerdotal sacrosanct scriptural supernatural theistic

irreligious irreverent lay secular unholy unsacred

agnostic atheistic erring ungodly

ecclesiastical metaphysical

apostolic canonical churchly deistic divine scriptural theistic

irreligious

classic classical common conventional historic long-established old popular regular time-honored universal

acceptable accustomed acknowledged ancestral customary fixed folk habitual immemorial oral prescribed rooted sanctioned taken for granted transmitted unwritten widely used widespread

abnormal different extraordinary infrequent irregular modern new rare uncommon unusual

fresh unestablished unfixed untraditional