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==European trunk and root==

==European trunk and root==

The European portion of neo-orthodoxy was in fact the movement's trunk and root.  The root is clearly the work of Karl Barth yet it was intially not his but those of his colleague Emil Brunner read by the Americans [[Reinhold Niebuhr]] and [[H. Richard Niebuhr]].  It was the Niebuhr's who helped arrange for English translations of Brunner's work.  English translations of Barth's work did not appear until after those of Brunner's.  From an Anglo-American perspective Bart's work suffers from and is mired in the swamps of German dialectical thought. Hegelian dialectical thought is steadfastly rejected by the Anglo-American Academy (for example, the British academic [[Karl Popper]] waged a war consisting of many battles against dialectical thought, which is apparently as desctructive to the British and American Academy, and as incompatible, as plugging in a 120V/60Hz American appliance into a 240V/50Hz European outlet).  Unlike Barth's work,  Emil Brunner's did not dwell on what is alternatively called continental, Hegelian, and German dialectic.

The European portion of neo-orthodoxy was in fact the movement's trunk and root.  The root is clearly the work of Karl Barth yet it was intially not his but those of his colleague Emil Brunner read by the Americans [[Reinhold Niebuhr]] and [[H. Richard Niebuhr]].  It was the Niebuhr's who helped arrange for English translations of Brunner's work.  English translations of Barth's work did not appear until after those of Brunner's.  From an Anglo-American perspective Bart's work suffers from and is mired in the swamps of German dialectical thought. Hegelian dialectical thought is steadfastly rejected by the Anglo-American Academy (for example, the British academic [[Karl Popper]] waged a war consisting of many battles against dialectical thought, which is apparently as desctructive to the British and American Academy, and as incompatible, as plugging in a 120V/60Hz American appliance into a 240V/50Hz European outlet).  Unlike Barth's work,  Emil Brunner's did not dwell on what is alternatively called continental, Hegelian, and German dialectic.<ref>addref</ref>

<ref>addref</ref>==Neo-orthodoxy and Christian Antimodernism==

==Neo-orthodoxy and Christian Antimodernism==

A useful but somewhat simplistic way of defining neo-orthodoxy is to define it as the rejection of Professor [[Wilhelm Herrmann]] teachings by some of his students&mdash;in this sense [[fundamentalism|antimodernism]] is a branch of neo-orthodoxy.  For [[John Gresham Machen]], who traveled to Germany and studied with Herrmann in 1905, is a key figure in the formation of Christian Conservativism.  Above all, the common ground between [[fundamentalism|anti-modernism]], and Neo-orthodoxy is the acceptance and evangelism of the [[sin|doctrine of Sin]].  A significant difference is the solution to the problem of sin. [[fundamentalism|Antimodernism]] espouses the [[Salvation|doctrine of Salvation]], while neo-orthodoxy remains eerily silent on such a solution despite all its vociferousness about the [[sin|doctrine of Sin]].

A useful but somewhat simplistic way of defining neo-orthodoxy is to define it as the rejection of Professor [[Wilhelm Herrmann]] teachings by some of his students&mdash;in this sense [[fundamentalism|antimodernism]] is a branch of neo-orthodoxy.  For [[John Gresham Machen]], who traveled to Germany and studied with Herrmann in 1905, is a key figure in the formation of Christian Conservativism.  Above all, the common ground between [[fundamentalism|anti-modernism]], and Neo-orthodoxy is the acceptance and evangelism of the [[sin|doctrine of Sin]].  A significant difference is the solution to the problem of sin. [[fundamentalism|Antimodernism]] espouses the [[Salvation|doctrine of Salvation]], while neo-orthodoxy remains eerily silent on such a solution despite all its vociferousness about the [[sin|doctrine of Sin]].

===Neo-orthodoxy and Reformed theology===

===Neo-orthodoxy and Reformed theology===

Another way to categorize and define neo-orthodoxy is as a subset of [[Reformed Churches|Reformed Christianity]].  This was done by [[George M. Marsden]] and others in the book ''Reformed Theology in America: A History of Its Modern Development'' (Eerdmans, 1985).<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=S_ja7y27VYsC ''Reformed Theology in America''] (Google Book preview)</ref>

Another way to categorize and define neo-orthodoxy is as a subset of [[Reformed Churches|Reformed Christianity]].  This was done by [[George M. Marsden]] and others in the book ''Reformed Theology in America: A History of Its Modern Development'' (Eerdmans, 1985).<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=S_ja7y27VYsC ''Reformed Theology in America''] (Google Book preview)</ref>