- a variation of neoorthodoxy.
neo-orthodoxy
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Despite his acknowledged eminence, Barth's masterwork, Church Dogmatics, is one of the least-read great books of the century, and Barthian neo-orthodoxy now seems almost as old hat as the orthodoxy it displaced.
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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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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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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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