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neo-orthodoxy

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/ ˌniːəʊˈɔːθəˌdɒksɪ /

noun

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

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Niebuhr's theology was often called an American version of Karl Earth's neo-orthodoxy, but Niebuhr was very much an American original.

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Many of them seem to have a common purpose: to consolidate the best historical and cultural learning of igth century "liberal" theology with the most relevant doctrinal insights of 20th century "neo-orthodoxy."

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With the momentous entrance in the '30s of Reinhold Niebuhr and neo-orthodoxy sin once again became real and personal for U.S. intellectuals�but in a new way.

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His kind of God-thinking has been commonly called "neo-orthodoxy" and "theology of crisis" � labels that Barth rejects, since they scarcely define it at all.

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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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