paleo-orthodoxy

noun

An evangelical Christian movement in the late 20th and early 21st centuries that emphasizes the ancient Christian consensus of the undivided Church of the first millennium AD.

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nounpaleo-orthodoxy (uncountable)
  1. uncountableAn evangelical Christian movement in the late 20th and early 21st centuries that emphasizes the ancient Christian consensus of the undivided Church of the first millennium AD.

    A similar but different response is Thomas Oden's paleo-orthodoxy.

    2016, Candy Gunther Brown, Mark Silk, The Future of Evangelicalism in America, →ISBN, page 113
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    Paleo-orthodoxy is a movement similar in some respects to Neo-evangelicalism but emphasising the ancient Christian consensus of the undivided Church of the first millennium AD, including in particular the early Creeds and councils of the Church as a means of properly understanding the Scriptures.

    2007, Nagendra Kr Singh, A. P. Mishra, Encyclopaedia of Oriental Philosophy and Religion: Christianity

Origin

From paleo- + orthodoxy.

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