Concept
Neo-orthodoxy
Overview
In Protestant Christianity, Neo-orthodoxy or Neoorthodoxy, also known as crisis theology and dialectical theology, was a theological movement developed in the aftermath of the First World War. The movement was largely a reaction against doctrines of 19th-century liberal theology, and a reevaluation of the teachings of the Reformation. Karl Barth is the leading figure associated with the movement. In the United States, Reinhold Niebuhr was a leading proponent of neo-orthodoxy. It is unrelated to Eastern Orthodoxy.
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There is in Christendom an incessant twaddling on Sundays about the glorious and invaluable truths of Christianity, its mild consolation. But it is indeed evident that Christ lived 1800 years ago; for the rock of offense and object of faith has become a most charming fairy-story character, a kind of divine good old man.[9] People have not the remotest idea of what it means to be offended by him, and still less, what…
Søren Kierkegaard, Selections from the Writings of Kierkegaard
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The word "religion" might seem to express more definitely the worship due to God alone, and therefore Latin translators have used this word to represent θρησκεία; yet, as not only the uneducated, but also the best instructed, use the word religion to express human ties, and relationships, and affinities, it would inevitably introduce ambiguity to use this word in discussing the worship of God, unable as we are to…
of Hippo Augustine, The City of God, Volume I
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It contains Four Great Branches: _The Greek Catholic Church_; _The Roman Catholic Church_; _The Evangelical Lutheran Church_; and _The Reformed Churches_, comprising a great number of denominations and sects. The Lutheran Church and the Reformed Churches are called Protestant. (For the names and relations of various branches of the Church, see the accompanying Diagram, on page 106.)
Martin Luther, An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism
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Philosophers who discussed Neo-orthodoxy
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- Ontology
- Original sin
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- Immanence
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- Revelation
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Sin
- Age of Enlightenment
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- Fideism
- Martin Heidegger
Place in the tradition
Part of Existentialism.