paleo-orthodoxy

English

Etymology

From paleo- +‎ orthodoxy.

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

     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.

   • 2016, Candy Gunther Brown, Mark Silk, The Future of Evangelicalism in America, →ISBN, page 113:

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

Alternative forms

paleoorthodoxy