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neo-orthodox

  • a variation of neoorthodox.
    neoorthodox
    adjective
    null Neoorthodox adhering to the principles of neoorthodoxy, a movement in Protestant theology that resists liberalism and emphasizes certain doctrines of the Reformation, such as the sovereignty of God, salvation by grace through faith, the importance of personal conversion, and the authority of Scripture.
  • a word derived from neo-orthodoxy.
    neo-orthodoxy
    noun
    a movement in 20th-century Protestantism, reasserting certain older traditional Christian doctrines

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

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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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In the 19305 he went through a strong neo-orthodox phase: "I took to neo-orthodoxy the way Methodists take to organization."

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Though the term "neo-orthodox," applied to himself, makes him wince, Niebuhr matured in the climate of crisis.

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