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There have been a few setbacks, he admits, such as "much publicized 'conversions' " to the Roman Catholic Church and the neo-orthodox movement in Protestantism.

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As a seminarian, Potter was struck by the Bible-based, neo-orthodox theology of Karl Barth, whose understanding of Christianity, he says, "forces us to take radical positions."

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These have been the "neo-orthodox" years of theological through-the-looking-glass, when the wildest radicals were the most Biblically conservative, and the mark of old fuddy-duddyism was a relaxed attitude toward dogma.

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The neo-orthodox theologian Karl Barth championed Joseph's role of taking care of Jesus.

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It was a full-dress religious crisis lasting several months, and Updike says now that he got through it only by clinging to the stern, neo-orthodox theology of Switzerland's Karl Earth.

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