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paleo-orthodoxy

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.

Noun

paleo-orthodoxy (uncountable)

  1. 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.
    • 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
    • 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

Origin of paleo-orthodoxy

From paleo- + orthodoxy.

Questions about paleo-orthodoxy

What does paleo-orthodoxy mean?
Paleo-orthodoxy means 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.
What part of speech is paleo-orthodoxy?
Paleo-orthodoxy is a noun.

Words near paleo-orthodoxy in the dictionary

  1. paleo-oceanographic
  2. paleo-oceanographical
  3. paleo-oceanography
  4. paleo-organism
  5. paleo-orthodox
  6. paleo-orthodoxy
  7. paleo-osteology
  8. paleoaeolian
  9. paleoagrostology
  10. paleoalgology
  11. paleoaltimetry

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