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neo-orthodoxy

British  
/ ˌniːəʊˈɔːθəˌdɒksɪ /

noun

  1. a movement in 20th-century Protestantism, reasserting certain older traditional Christian doctrines

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On the plus side, Hulme helped make neo-orthodoxy respectable, modern art approachable, and cyclical philosophies of history acceptable.

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But in 1943 theological liberalism looked like an outworn creed beside the fashionable stringencies of Niebuhr's neo-orthodoxy.

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Later the school was swept by Karl Earth's neo-orthodoxy and Paul Tillich's existential theology.

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Barth's thinking, which came to be known as "crisis theology" or "neo-orthodoxy," stressed a God who stood in constant judgment against idolatrous counterfeiters of faith who sought to create him in their own image.

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Earth's "neo-orthodoxy" was called the "theology of crisis."

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