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neo-orthodoxy

British  
/ ˌniːəʊˈɔːθəˌdɒksɪ /

noun

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

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  • neo-orthodox adjective

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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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Later the school was swept by Karl Earth's neo-orthodoxy and Paul Tillich's existential theology.

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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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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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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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