neo-orthodoxy
Dialectical theological movement
Neo-orthodoxy is a twentieth-century Protestant theological movement reacting against liberal theology's optimism about human nature and progress.
Associated with Karl Barth and Reinhold Niebuhr, it reasserted traditional doctrines—human sinfulness, divine transcendence, the authority of scripture—while accepting modern biblical criticism.
The movement emphasized the radical distinction between God and humanity, and the impossibility of knowing God except through revelation.
Surprising disclosed truth
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
- Word of GodSacred religious text
- proclamationFormal public announcement
- dogmaticsStudy of church doctrine
eschatology · atonement · incarnation · Trinity · grace · sin · salvation · sanctification
Post-schism Western Christian
- ReformationReligious movement splitting Christianity
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
- fundamentalismStrict adherence to core tenets
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
pietism · ecumenism · evangelicalism · Kierkegaard · dialectic · antithesis
Study of interpretation methods
- exegesisCritical textual interpretation
- biblical authorityDivine text's governing power
- canonAccepted authoritative works
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
inspiration · Word of God · doctrine · creeds · confessions · dogma · tradition · demythologization
Reason as knowledge source
- secularismSeparation of faith, state
- liberalismPhilosophy valuing reform, tolerance
- humanismPhilosophy prioritizing earthly reason
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
apologetics · relativism · progressivism · optimism · anthropocentrism · accommodation
revelation
Surprising disclosed truth
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
- Word of GodSacred religious text
- proclamationFormal public announcement
dogmatics · eschatology · atonement · incarnation · Trinity · grace · sin · salvation · sanctification · predestination
Protestant
Post-schism Western Christian
- ReformationReligious movement splitting Christianity
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
- fundamentalismStrict adherence to core tenets
existentialism · pietism · ecumenism · evangelicalism · Kierkegaard · dialectic · antithesis
hermeneutics
Study of interpretation methods
- exegesisCritical textual interpretation
- biblical authorityDivine text's governing power
- canonAccepted authoritative works
revelation · inspiration · Word of God · doctrine · creeds · confessions · dogma · tradition · demythologization
rationalism
Reason as knowledge source
- secularismSeparation of faith, state
- liberalismPhilosophy valuing reform, tolerance
- humanismPhilosophy prioritizing earthly reason
enlightenment · apologetics · relativism · progressivism · optimism · anthropocentrism · accommodation
- ProtestantismLutheran, Protestantism, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian
- Modern ChristianityVatican II, ecumenism, evangelicalism, liberation theology, Billy Graham
- Modern Theologyliberation theology, political theology, Barth, Schleiermacher, Gutierrez
- Reformed ChristianityCalvinist, Calvinism, predestination, Westminster Confession, John Calvin
- beliefsbelief, beliefs, creed, creeds, faith
- existentialismexistence, authenticity, existential angst, existential crisis, angst
orthodoxy, orthodox, orthodoxies, unorthodox, unorthodoxy, ortho, doxology, paradox, paradoxical