neo-orthodoxy

British  

/ ˌniːəʊˈɔːθəˌdɒksɪ /

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

• neo-orthodox adjective

Example Sentences

His philosophical conception of tradition, associated as it was with conservatism in ritual practice, created what is often known as the Frankfort “Neo-Orthodoxy.”

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Altizer, now at the State University of New York, admits that "this talk about the death was really the death of neo-Orthodoxy."

From Time Magazine Archive

When sociology was in ascendency, the gospel was the Social Gospel; when pessimism overcame optimism, Neo-Orthodoxy was pessimistic.

From Time Magazine Archive