neo-orthodoxy

Derived from the existentialism of Kierkegaard . Stresses the existential and psychological aspects of religion. Opposes biblical literalism, propositional revelation, natural theology, and all forms of religious humanism . "Scripture is only revelation when conjoined with God's Spirit in the present" (Brunner ). Knowledge of God is not grasped by reason but through an act of God's personal self-disclosure (Word of God). Reasserts and reinterprets the role of sin in religious understanding and in the problems of the human situation. It says religion is man's striving to make himself righteous before that which he recognizes as ultimate and decisive (Barth ). Also see Protestant neo-orthodoxy ; and Protestant neo-orthodoxy *