neo-orthodoxy

/ ˌniːəʊˈɔːθəˌdɒksɪ /

noun

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

Derived Forms

• ˌneo-ˈorthodox, 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

Will China's communist neo-orthodoxy make for a more stable future, or does it merely delay and aggravate the coming postcommunist instability?

From Time Magazine Archive

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